Dust explosion hazards

About The Webinar

Dust explosion hazards still occur on a regular basis in the process industry causing injuries, fatalities, property damage, business interruption, and environmental pollution. Statistics show that there is a dust explosion in European industry at least once a day. Similar numbers would apply to the US. This is in spite of the wealth of knowledge available to prevent these from happening and to reduce their consequences to a minimum.

In this webinar session, the CEO – Principal Engineer of Gexcon UK, Dave William Price, talks about an up-to-date look at how to identify, respond to, control, and eliminate dust explosion hazards in your own plant.

What you will learn

• The basics of dust explosion phenomena.
• Properties of dust that are important to assess the hazards.
• How to examine workplace for dust hazards.
• How to assess dust protection measures.

About The Speaker

David William Price

CEO – Principal Engineer of Gexcon UK

Dave Price is a recognized leading explosion specialist and extensively provides his services to the power; petrochemical; pharmaceutical; automotive and food industries. He has been involved with industrial explosions for in excess of 25 years, mainly serving the bulk material handling, oil and gas, petrochemical, and high-hazard industries providing safety and risk management with respect to process safety and explosive atmospheres, providing consultancy to predict, protect and mitigate dust; gas and vapour cloud explosions.

Dave also acts as an expert witness and accident investigator in relation to explosion incidents and delivers advanced explosion science courses on behalf of the IChemE.​​​​​​​

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