Sameer Nazir
KARACHI: Speakers at a programme have stressed the need that government institutions, senior authorities, and civil society should extend cooperation for ensuring improved environment in the city similar to the active role being played by youth and children for the noble cause.
These views were expressed by participants of a festival-like activity organized by National Forum for Environment and Health (NFEH) here the other day at a shopping mall of Clifton area in connection with World Environment Day. The programme was organized in collaboration with United Nations’ Environment Programme and attended by over 300 school going children and their parents.
Speaking on the occasion, NFEH President Muhammad Naeem Qureshi said that children and youth should be given due attention while working for the causes of environment, education, health and other pressing social issues. He said focusing on youth and children was important so that in future an educated and enabled nation could play its due role for progress of the country.
The NFEH chief said that his forum had organized week-long activities in connection with World Environment Day this year and by doing so it had contributed its part in practical steps being taken in the society for improvement of environment. He said the office of Commissioner Karachi and Sindh government’s Forest Department had also actively contributed for this cause by promoting plantation drive in the city.
Also on the occasion, competitions on the subject of environmental uplift were also among participating children through holding drawing, poster-making, general knowledge quiz, songs, and essay writing contests for them. Prizes were also distributed among successful children of these contests. The activity at the shopping mall continued for around four hours and participated by children of age group four to ten years along with their parents.
The eminent guests and other participants of the activity appreciated the efforts of NFEH for the cause of environment and health and also resolved that they would also play their due part for beautification, upgrading, and improvement of the city.
Prominent participants of the activity included renowned actor and singer Khalid Anum, Hassan Soomro, Dr Muzna Ebrahim, designer Yousuf Bashir Qureshi, Romana Hussain, prominent social figures Dr Kaiser Waheed, Samir Mir Sheikh, Afia Salam, Jamshed Bukhari, Mahrukh Jabeen, Dr Sabiha Essa, Ruqiya Naeem, singer Kamran Saggu, Metropolitan Commissioner of Karachi Metropolitan Corporation Samiuddin Siddiqui, and Administrator of District Municipal Corporation South Mir Farooq Lango.
Industrial Seminar held by Avanceon on the criticality of Process Safety
Sameer Nazir
KARACHI: “Process Safety is critical, it is a business continuity imperative for any industry involved in manufacturing or processes.Safety considerations in processes avoid systems breakdowns and preclude with consequences that can be dramatic both to the environment and the citizens,” Bakhtiar H. Wain CEO Avanceon Limited, emphasized at their seminar on Process Safety at Serena Islamabad today.
The seminar, welcomed many respected personalities of the key driving industries of Pakistan including: the oil & gas, power and fertilizers sectors amongst others. Subject matter experts on industrial automation and processes as well as safety shared their know-how. Amongst the guest speakers were specialists from Rockwell Automation, Engro Elengy Terminal Limited as well as Fauji Fertilizers.
Mr.Wain, explained that functional safety standards and their implementations are riddled with difficult to understand terminologies and definitions. He elaborated on the topic: “a safety instrumented system is a system composed of elements with the sole purpose of taking the process to a safe state when demanded to do so.”
This is a field where real expertise is needed. He also pointed out: “I will not say it enough but preventative you might end up either over designing your systems or missing out the key components that are necessary to make your system safe.”
Mr. Syed Ammar Shah, Lead E&I, Engro Elengy Terminal Limited (EETL), highlighted the benefits of safety solution implemented by Avanceon Limited for LNG plant of the company. “Avanceon team definitely helped Engro in improving the safety of the plant,” he added.
The interesting feature of the seminar was very relevant to Pakistan’s plan to expand its nuclear energy base. The engineering experts who attended the seminar particularly discussed Fukushima Disaster (nuclear meltdown) case study and underlined the lessons learnt by this accident.
Avanceon Limited & Rockwell Automation shared how process safety architecture can be built for high availability and fault tolerant and discussed merits and de-merits of each architecture.