Risk and impact in marine ops – IMCA's safety and environment seminar heads to Rio
The 2012 International Marine Contractors Association’s (IMCA) Safety and Environment Seminar, with its theme ‘Risk and impact in marine operations’ (Rio de Janeiro; 21-22 March) will focus to a large extent on process safety/asset integrity challenges in marine construction. “It is a new step to move slightly away from occupational health risks and look at the impact of high risk / low probability issues – we believe the time is right for this sort of content in this annual event,” says IMCA’s Chief Executive, Hugh Williams. “We are, however, not totally ignoring occupational health as the presentation ‘Workforce involvement –