2026 Spring Meeting and 22nd Global Congress on Process Safety (GCPS)

Examine how increasing natural hazard events such as hurricanes, floods, wildfires and tornadoes are challenging the original design assumptions of many refining and chemical process facilities. This session outlines a structured natural hazard risk assessment framework that helps organizations identify, evaluate and mitigate these risks beyond traditional Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) checklist approaches, strengthening facility resilience and risk management practices..

As organizations integrate hydrogen pilots and derivatives into existing refining and chemical assets, even small configuration changes can introduce new operational and regulatory risks. This presentation explores how hydrogen interfaces can challenge legacy design assumptions and Asset Integrity Management (AIM) programs. Drawing on field experience, the session highlights key areas where hydrogen integration can impact facility siting, relief systems, inspection programs and insurability, and outlines five near-term decisions operators can make to protect capacity, compliance and long-term operational resilience.

As industrial facilities become increasingly connected through enterprise networks, remote access and cloud services, the cybersecurity risk profile of Operational Technology (OT) environments continues to evolve. Traditional risk assessments often rely on qualitative scoring methods that provide limited transparency and consistency. This presentation introduces SLiCE, a structured framework that applies Intelligence Community Directive 203 analytic principles to help engineers and cybersecurity specialists produce more evidence-based, defensible cybersecurity risk evaluations.

Functional safety programs often rely on reliability assumptions made during the design phase of Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS), but these assumptions are rarely validated using site-specific operational data. This presentation discusses practical approaches for monitoring and evaluating SIS reliability parameters in alignment with ANSI/ISA-61511 requirements. Attendees will learn how plant data can be used to strengthen functional safety programs while identifying opportunities to optimize testing intervals and lifecycle costs.

As IT and Operational Technology (OT) environments become increasingly interconnected, cybersecurity threats pose growing risks to safe and reliable operations in oil, gas and chemical facilities. This presentation explores foundational cybersecurity practices that help protect industrial control systems and reduce safety risks associated with OT vulnerabilities. Attendees will gain insight into practical policies, procedures and technical controls that support a layered defense strategy across the design, operation, maintenance and decommissioning phases of a facility lifecycle.

Managing hazardous chemical inventories across global operations can be challenging when sites operate under different safety cultures, regulations and management systems. This presentation examines how Rolls-Royce partnered with ABS Consulting to apply the Bow Tie methodology to evaluate and standardize hazardous inventory risk management across multiple sites. The session highlights how standardized Bow Tie templates and a benchmarking dashboard were used to assess barrier effectiveness, identify gaps in process safety practices and support more consistent risk management across a global portfolio.