Past News & Events 2009

Congratulations to Recent CSP Certified Members!

We are happy and proud to announce that one more member of American Society of Safety Engineers-Kuwait Chapter has successfully completed CSP (Certified Safety Professional), certified and approved by Board of Certified Safety Professional, USA.

Details of our successful Members who completed CSP are as under:

• Mr. Ashok Lenka, who is presently working with KNPC. He is also one of the Advisory Committee members of ASSE-Kuwait Chapter.

• Mr. Sanjay Jaiswal who is presently working as Safety Engineer with Kuwait Oil Company. Mr. Jaiswal is a Fire Engineer with 20 years of experience in the field of Safety and Fire.

We take this opportunity to congratulate him on his successful completion of CSP.

Let us watch who is our next personality to catch the Flight of CSP?

Local Expert Wins International Safety Professional of the Year Award

Ujwal Ritwik, the well known expert in the field of occupational safety, health and environment has received the prestigious Safety Professional of the Year (SPY) 2009 award from Region IV of the American Society of Safety Engineers, Chicago, USA. In a glittering function held at Al Hashmi convention center at Radisson SAS hotel last week, Mr. Hussain Ismail, Chairman and Managing Director of Kuwait Petroleum International and Mr. Chris Patton, the President of American Society of Safety Engineers presented the award to Mr. Ritwik. Ujwal Ritwik is engaged in the professional since the past 32 years, environmental management and process safety management are some of the areas he is especially know for.

As the Senior Specialist in HSE Mr. Ritwik is the highest credentialed professional in Kuwait Petroleum Corporation in the field as per their recently introduced Technical Professional Ladder credentialing program. He has won several awards within and outside his company. More recently,in 2007, he won Institute of Professional Environmental Practice (IPEP) Annual Award for International Collaboration and Cooperation in the field of environment. Since the past 20 years Mr. Ritwik works for Kuwait Petroleum Company; his supportive role in keeping the refinery fire station manned, during the Iraqi occupation in 1990, is vividly remembered by his superiors and colleagues.

While presenting the highest award of the region Chris Patton read the citation - On behalf of myself, Awards and Honors Chairperson Mary Winkler, and the nearly 3,000 members of Region VI, it is my pleasure to recognize Mr. Ujwal Ritwik as the Safety Professional of the Year. As you know, Kuwait is a new addition to the Region VI family; however, in the short time since they have been a part of this Region, the Chapter has made its mark. Ujwal Ritwik has been a big part of that success. As one of the founding members of the Chapter, it’s first President, and the organizer of numerous Chapter Conferences, his leadership has helped to take this entity from good to great. In the professional community, Ujwal’s experience and knowledge are a resource from which many other professionals seek information and advice. As the Regional Vice President that gets to work with your Chapter, I consider it an honor and privilege to be associated with groups such as yours and professionals such as Ujwal. Please accept my heartfelt gratitude for the work that you do in protecting people, property, and the environment.

Mr. Hussain Ismail too spoke highly of the contributions of Ujwal Ritwik to the company and Kuwait. He recounted the time he worked with Ritwik while at KNPC and how impressed he has been with Ritwik’s performance both at work and as a volunteer outside the work. Ritwik’s work to develop the local young professionals and strengthen local expertise have been specially highlighted. He is the founder president of the local chapter of American Society of Safety Engineers and has also presided five International conferences on HSE in Kuwait.

Ritwik, has contributed significantly to the establishment of environment management system in his company and Kuwait as such. His work, both in the Middle East and overseas, has involved projects ranging from building process safety capabilities in high hazard industry and environmental studies.

Lauding Ritwik’s role as a change agent Mr. Tareq Al-Aslawi, President of the Kuwait Chapter of ASSE, congratulated him for the achievement. “He is the most well deserved recipient of this award. Such dedicated and hardworking people are rare, development of young engineers is always in his mind. He has made all of us in Kuwait proud,” said Tareq.

While receiving the SPY award Mr. Ritwik thanked all his fellow workers and dedicated the award to ‘all those faceless and unknown HSE engineers who keep working day and night to protect people, property and environment’. A 300 strong gathering attending the award function gave a standing ovation to Mr. Ritwik.

OSHAS 18001: 2007 Lead Auditor Course - 2nd Batch (Evening Session)

Training Program on NEBOSH International General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety (First Batch)

For the first time, ASSE – Kuwait Chapter in collaboration with a reputed consultancy is conducting the NEBOSH International General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety, As this course is offered exclusively for ASSE members to make it more flexible this program will be conducted during the evening hours and holidays. The tentative schedule of this program are as follows.

How to Register

Fill the attached nomination form and send it by email.

• The deadline of the receiving nominations for OHSAS 18001 : 2007 Lead Auditor course : 23rd January 2009
• The deadline of receiving nominations for NEBOSH program : 31st January 2009
• The seats will be reserved on first come first serve basis.

Registration Fees:

• OHSAS 18001 : 2007 = KD 310
• NEBOSH Certification = KD 550 ( Approx)

Note: Members are requested to pay the course fee before 5th Feb 2009 at Chapter Office. For further queries please contact me at 66846040

Other Training Announcement:

We are also intend to conduct the following courses in the near future, The schedule for these programs will be sent shortly

1. OSHA 20 Hr - General Industry ( First & Second batch)
2. OSHA 10 Hr - Construction Industry ( First & Second batch)
3. PSM - Six months Diploma Course - ( Second batch)
4. HSE Certification training workshops
5. First Aid ( Morning & Evening )
6. OHSAS 18001 : 2007 ( Third Batch)
7. Radiation Safety ( First batch)

ASSE–Kuwait Chapter Congratulates the Following Recent ASP/CSP Achievers

CSP achievers

	Golamari Sampath Safety Engineer Kuwait Oil Company
	Prabhakar Singh Safety Engineer Kuwait Oil Company
	Ranjit Dash Safety Engineer Joint Operations
	Srikanth Safety Engineer Kuwait Oil Company
	N. Vasudevan Safety Engineer Kuwait National Petroleum Company
	A Burugapalli Amarnath Safety Engineer Kuwait Oil Company
	Dinesh Dutta Safety Engineer OSSC

ASP Achievers

1. Alam, Mohammad A
2. Babu, Velichetti
3. Devulapalli, Sreenivasa Rao
4. Jaiswal, Sanjay
5. Karunakaran Nair Madhusudanan
6. Lenka, Ashok C
7. Murthy, B V Ramana
8. Palagummi Vvs Subba Rao
9. Pandey, Paritosh K

Statistics of CSP Holders Worldwide:

1. USA with 11,350
2. Canada 67
3. Kuwait 11 (All of them belongs to ASSE – Kuwait Chapter)

Source: www.bcsp.org

7th Annual ASSE "Safety-on-the-Job" Poster Contest

American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) is urging its member’s children to pickup their crayons and enter its 7th annual kids “Safety- on- the- Job” poster contest. The contest is open to children 5-14 with top prizes to be awarded to those in each of the five age groups that best illustrate being safe on the job. ASSE members and chapters can also sponsor schools, community organizations or children from their workplace in the contest, which is aimed at educating children on the importance of safety and health at work and better acquainting them with the job their parents do as occupational safety, health and environment practitioners. Children in five age groups – 1) ages 5-6; 20 ages 7-8; 3) ages 9-10; 4) ages 11-12; and 5) ages 13- 14, are invited to create and submit posters no larger than 11 x 14 that best illustrate being safe at work. The first winner in each group receives a $ 1,000 savings bond, the second place winner receives a $500 savings bond and the third place winner receives a $200 savings bond. Winners will be invited, to attend the ASSE poster contest award ceremony which is going to be held in Washington, D.C., The poster contest winners will be announced the first week of March 2009. The winning poster in each age group will be featured on the ASSE North American Occupational Safety and Health Week (NAOSH) 2009 poster distributed worldwide. NAOSH Week runs from May 4-10, 2009 and is a tool to ASSE uses to promote the importance of occupational safety, health and the environment in everyone’s lives. The poster contest entry form and rules can be found at http://www.asse.org/newsroom/naosh09/poster-contest.php. All the members are requested to encourage your kids, grandchildren, nieces and nephews to participate in this Poster Competition.

ASSE – Kuwait Chapter had participated for the past two years and made great reputation. Previous year, Kuwait Children submitted a record breaking 475 posters and grabbed 7 prizes Worth (( US $1000, US $500 X 2 US $200 X 4 gift vouchers) which was a remarkable achievements for the chapter. To continue this trend, Please submit your posters at our ASSE- Kuwait office on or before 31st January, 2009.

Lets do it again this year!!!

Mrs. Ilise L. Feitshans JD and ScM, Coordinator for Encyclopaedia, 5th Edition ILO, Visit to Kuwait

The International Labor Organization (ILO) is the oldest specialized agency of the United Nations, founded in 1919. The ILO Encyclopedia reflects the best thinking and collective knowledge of experts who have written down information for the benefit of all people, available free of charge. No one else has done this job with the accuracy, history of objectivity and international mission that has been the hallmark of the ILO since its inception and since the first Encyclopedia in 1930 ILO’s goal is to provide the stakeholders and end users with appropriate information, across subjects, in a highly accessible format, to get the new century started right in the 5th Edition. The sole purpose of this mission is to provide, for the first time, a completely electronic, up-to-date, accurate and user-friendly information resource that is understandable by millions of people, anywhere in the world.

In this context, ASSE – Kuwait Chapter has taken a lead in Kuwait to facilitate meetings with Universities, Research Institutions, Oil Companies, Government bodies and other Professional societies to brief them on the ongoing 5th Edition ILO Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety, SAFEWORK. You have an opportunity to participate in the process of writing the encyclopaedia. As part of promoting this mission, Mrs. Ilise L. Feitshans JD and ScM is on a special trip to Kuwait during 11-18 January 2009. ASSE – Kuwait would request the interested HSE & Other professionals / bodies / Companies to come forward and participate in this project. We would like to meet you and describe “ How you could be a part of this noble mission “.

Those interested please contact us by 5th January 2009. Based on your response we would communicate with the meeting agenda.

Looking forward to your commitment on enhancing Health Safety Environment worldwide.

Conference Curtain Raiser Meet/Technical Meet/Half Yearly General Body Meeting

We cordially invite all of you to one more mega event "Conference Curtain Raiser Meet/Technical Meet/Special General Body Meeting" that we are conducting on 13th January, 2009 (Tuesday) at Radisson SAS.

Details of the activities planned for this day are as under:

1. Conference Curtain Raiser Meet

As you are aware that American Society of Safety Engineers - Kuwait Chapter is organizing the 5th International Health, Safety, Environment and Loss Prevention Professional Development Conference & Exhibition from 17-19 March, 2009 in Kuwait with the theme "Moving to Sky" In connection with this mega event; Conference Curtain Raiser Meet has been arranged on 13th Jan'2009 (Tuesday) at Radisson SAS.

2. Session Chair

Briefing by PDC - 2009 Technical Committee

3. Technical Talk from Representative of ILO, Switzerland:

We are happy to announce that there will be a Technical Talk on the same day on "5th Edition of Encyclopedia of OH&Safety" by Ms. Ilise L. Feitshans JD and ScM Coordinator, 5th Edition, Encyclopedia of Occupational Health and Safety, SAFEWORK, ILO, Switzerland

4. Special General Body meeting:

During the 95th EC Meeting held on 18.11.2008, The Executive Committee of ASSE-Kuwait Chapter decided the following:

1. To conduct the Elections once in every two years instead of once in a year as per the existing practice.

As per the existing practice the new team is taking over the charge in July month, which is falling in the summer vacation period and is again followed by Ramadan. During this holiday season, society/chapter is not in a position to organise any program. By the time they start the activities after Ramadan EID Holidays i.e. around November, election notification for new team is to be issued as per the existing bye laws. As a result the net available time to any team is very less. In order to solve these kind of problems EC has proposed to conduct the Elections once in every two years.

2. To collect 5 KD per annum per member as Chapter dues.

As per the payment structure for the members of ASSE, an amount of 15$ is to be collected against chapter dues.(Refer the Membership Form Under Item no:7) However till date, ASSE-KC has been overlooking this aspect with a view to encourage the membership drive. On the other end nothing is being charged to any member as a fees for participation for Technical Meets, which becomes a costly business. Today we have more than 500 members.

Organising a Technical meet becomes a costly affair. Hence, keeping the present inflation rate ,cost of Hotel Booking/Expenditure involved in organising every technical meet and other over head charges in view, EC has proposed to charge 5 KD per annum per member as Chapter dues.

However both these issues are to be approved by the members in order to ratify the decisions taken by the EC. In order to ratify the same special voting of members will be conducted during this meet.

Agenda of the day:

Venue: Radisson SAS, Hotel, Ball Room (Inside the Main hotel building, near the reception, Ground floor) . Road map attached, for further assistance contact hotel staff at 2567 3000.

Pre registration is mandatory. We appreciate your confirmation by 10th Jan'2009 either by email to assekuwait@hotmail.com or by SMS to 66846040

We request all of you to grace the occasion and make the program a grand success. Your presence is going to bring the difference! Don’t miss this event!

1st ASSE GCC HSE Excellence Award - Results Announced

American Society of Safety Engineers-Gulf Cooperation Council HSE Excellence Award is introduced to recognize leadership, excellence and encourage exceptional performance in private sector companies in the Gulf Region in the field of Health, Safety and Environment.

The award is instituted by the American Society of Safety Engineers-Kuwait Chapter, a non-profit Organization. This evidence based award showcases successful business models from organizations that uphold HSE as a business value and excel in performance. Award recipients were recognized at the Inaugural Ceremony of the 5th International HSE & Loss Prevention Professional Development Conference and Exposition-2009, on 17th March, 2009 in Kuwait.

In order to provide a credible and transparent process we had a multinational and multi sector panel to review the award compilation. Participants included Equate, Galfar Engineering & Construction, Nestle-Egypt, Halliburton, ISCO and many others.

We are sure that this first ever ASSE GCC HSE Excellence award for private sector companies in various sectors, had certainly contributed to the HSE performance in the private sector. It is with great pleasure we inform you that the ASSE- GCC HSE Excellence Awards Evaluation Committee has selected the following companies under various sectors.

Investigating Chemical Process Incidents

• Download Course Brochure (pdf)

Two of the highest ranked professional organizations join hands to raise the level of discussion on Process Safety Management in the Middle East. Center for Chemical Process Safety, CCPS (AICHE) is the most revered body on standard and guidance on Process Safety. American Society of Safety Engineers is the oldest & largest organization of SHE professionals in the world as also in the Middle East.

Course Objectives

The 3 day course will seek to achieve the following objectives:

• Describe the basic principles behind successful incident investigations.
• Identify the essential features of a management system designed to foster and support high quality incident investigations.
• List detailed information for planning and conducting incident investigations including investigative tools, techniques, and methodologies for determining root causes.
• Use the findings of an investigation to make effective recommendations that can reduce the likelihood of recurrence or mitigate the consequences of similar incidents (or even dissimilar incidents with common root causes).
• Plan an effective system for documenting, communicating, and resolving investigation findings and recommendations including a method to track closure of incident recommendations.

Course Directors

Mr. Paul Butler, Senior Technical Manager of Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS)

The instructor will be Mr. Paul Butler, Senior Technical Manager of CCPS in the U.S.A. Mr. Butler has more than 35 years of experience in the process industries, spending 18 years as Director of Process Safety for Buckman Laboratories, a global specialty chemical company. Throughout his career, Mr. Butler has offered many training courses in Incident Investigation, Hazard Analysis, and Process Safety Management Systems.

Mr. Scott Berger, Directo of of Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS)

Mr. Scott Berger, CCPS Director, will support Mr. Butler with the review of the course material. Mr. Berger has more than 30 years of experience in the process industries, including 7 years as CCPS Director, 5 years as Director, EHS Strategic Management for Owens Corning.

Certificates & Course Fee

Certificates will be issued jointly by the American Society of Safety Engineers and Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS).

Fee per participant is 450 K.D (US$ 1600) for Three days (includes snacks, lunch, course manual CD).

For More Details Contact Us

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