Workshops and Symposiums

The Environment... 

Operations in harsh conditions have become a necessity as we are pushed more and more into difficult environments. Oil & gas, mining, utility, construction and shipping companies need to know how their operations can safely progress in these challenging conditions.

The Challenges...

Freezing temperatures, extreme winds, corrosive sea spray and remoteness of operations are some of the challenges that need to be addressed to allow advancement into these locations. Solutions need to be evaluated for the impact on both humans and assets to safely implement change and capitalize on these new opportunities.

Our Goals...

Our workshops identify and prioritize the risks and challenges for operations and exploration in harsh environments, strategize a plan for solutions and disseminate knowledge and advances in harsh environment safety and asset integrity.

Safety & Integrity Workshops...

Safety & Integrity workshops bring together industry experts and researchers to share knowledge and experience, and to identify and establish new collaborative research opportunities relevant to the Arctic and other harsh environments. Workshops focus on two important themes related to the management of natural resource development in harsh and frontier are-as, namely Safety and Asset Integrity.

Upcoming Workshops:

The Sixth Symposium 2022: Safety and Integrity Management, October 5-7, 2022, College Station, Texas

Previous Workshops:

The First Annual Workshop on Safety and Integrity Management of Operations in Harsh Environments, March 19-20, 2013, St. John’s, NL

The Second Annual Workshop on Safety and Integrity Management of Operations in Harsh Environments, October 22-23, 2014, St. John’s, NL

The Third Workshop and Symposium on Safety and Integrity Management of Operations in Harsh Environments, October 18-20, 2017, St. John's, NL

Geno-MIC Stakeholder Workshop & Research Symposium on Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion, June 26 - 27, 2018, St. John's, NL

The Fourth Workshop and Symposium on Safety and Integrity Management of Operations in Harsh Environments: Risk, Reliability and Resilience, July 15-17, 2019, St. John's, NL

The Fifth Symposium 2021: A Virtual Symposium on Pandemic Risk to Safety and Integrity of Process Operations, March 22-23, 2021, St. John's, NL