The IET Functional Safety TPN was heavily involved in the Environmental and Safety Assurance Symposium (ESAS) 2016 which is the MOD’s flagship Symposium focusing on Equipment Safety and Environmental Management.  Working in partnership with MOD, DE&S, Atkins and IIRSM, the IET FS TPM were involved in keynotes, speakers, chairing a topic, reviewing papers, reviewing awards, presenting awards.



About ESAS16

The DE&S Symposium is the UK MOD's flagship Equipment Safety and Environmental event held at MOD Abbey Wood Bristol and is attended by around 300 people from the MOD, Industry and Academia over a two day period.

2016 Theme

DE&S is currently undertaking an unprecedented programme of transformation during which it must continue to engineer and deliver major equipment programmes and support them safely and responsibly. In addition, the recent formation of the Defence Safety Authority (DSA) has brought together all of the safety and environmental regulators into a single organisational construct along with the creation of the Defence Accident Investigation Branch (DAIB) all of which is changing the safety and environmental landscape. 


This year the symposium's theme is 'Engineering for Defence - Safely and Responsibly' and we will be considering topics such as setting evidenced based regulation, autonomous systems, cyber / safe and secure systems, sustainability, in-service safety management and the workings of the coroners court.


The presentations and workshops were focused around:

•    The Way ahead for Safety and Environment

•    How do we learn

•    The DE&S Way – Tool (New ASEMS)

•    Automation / Unmanned Vehicles

•    Cyber / Safe & Secure Systems

•    Data Assurance

Keynote speakers included:

• Air Vice-Marshall Mike Quigley MA MSc CEng FIExpE MIET RAF, Director Technical & Chief Information Officer, Defence Euqipment & Support

• Philip Dunne MP, Minster for Defence Procurement

• Alan Buckland, Atkins, Market Director, Defence

• Air vice-marshall Martin Clark CB MBA BSc(Eng) CEng FIET FRAeS RAF, Director (Technical) Military Aviation Authority and Chief Techical Officer Defence Safety Authority

• Brian Penfold, Director Trident Assurance Services and Vice-Chair IET Functional Safety TPN

• Baz Flowers, BMT Cadence

• Michael Stubbings, Frazer Nash Consultancy

Awards

For 2016, the IET and IIRSM introduced a new aspect to ESAS 2016 through the Safety and Environmental Management Awards. Awards were presented from the IET for ‘Innovation in Safety’ to an individual or team.  There were two awards, one for MOD and one for Industry.





We hope to build on the success of these awards for 2018.


The awards were introduced and present by Air Marshal J A Young, Chief of Materiel (Air), Defense Equipment & Support.  Air Marshall Young is a Fellow of the IET.



The IET winners were:

MOD – Osprey CSL jointly with the MOD for providing safety innovation in the A400M Programme.


Industry – Frazer-Nash Consultancy In recognition of the work to help solve the challenge of the SS Richard Montgomery