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SPE International Health, Safety, Environment, and
Sustainability Conference and Exhibition

10–12 September 2024 | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

The SPE International Health, Safety, Environment, and Sustainability Conference and Exhibition Programme Committee invites you to submit a paper proposal, for potential inclusion, in the technical programme. Contribute to the future of the health, safety, environment, and sustainability sectors and create an impact on the energy industry.

Call for Paper Proposals is closed!

Auhtors' will be notifed of acceptance/rejection by the 3rd week of March 2024.

Call for Papers Topics

Health

001: Health: Health in Communities: Community Health Outreach — Collaboration with Agencies, Government, or Other Stakeholders — Public-Private Health Partnership
002: Health: Health in Communities: Community Health Outreach — Collaboration with Agencies, Government, or Other Stakeholders — Global, National, and Regional Partnerships
003: Health: Health in Communities: Community Health Outreach — The Role of the Oil and Gas Industry in Communities — Social Risks Response
004: Health: Health in Communities: Community Health Outreach — The Role of the Oil and Gas Industry in Communities — Social Responsibility
005: Health: Health in Communities: Community Health Outreach — Global Public Health Programmes — Pandemic Preparedness and Response
006: Health: Health in Communities: Community Health Outreach — Health Impact Assessment and Human Health Risk Assessment
007: Health: Health Management: Health Culture — Health Strategy and Leadership
008: Health: Health Management: Health Culture — Welfare and Wellness Management
009: Health: Health Management: Health Culture — Psychological Safety
010: Health: Health Management: Health Culture — Building a Business Case for Wellness Programmes
011: Health: Health Management: Health Culture — Health Promotion
012: Health: Health Management: Health Emergency Response and Disaster Management
013: Health: Health Management: Health Monitoring and Performance Measures — Health Metrics
014: Health: Health Management: Health Monitoring and Performance Measures — Sickness Absence Management (Absenteeism versus Presentism)
015: Health: Health Management: Technology and Innovation — Health Technologies
016: Health: Health Management: Technology and Innovation — Health, Media, and Communications
017: Health: Health Management: Technology and Innovation — e-Health and Telemedicine
018: Health: Health Management: Technology and Innovation — Digital Health and the Power of Health Data
019: Health: Health in the Working Environment: Prevention of Non-Accidental Death
020: Health: Health in the Working Environment: Work Environment — Extreme Temperature Effects on Worker’s Health
021: Health: Health in the Working Environment: Work Environment — Health Risk Assessment
022: Health: Health in the Working Environment: Work Environment — Accommodation and Catering Management
023: Health: Health in the Working Environment: Resilience and Human Performance — Stress and Fatigue Management
024: Health: Health in the Working Environment: Resilience and Human Performance — Psychological Wellbeing in the Workplace
025: Health: Health in the Working Environment: Fitness for Duty — Health Surveillance Management
026: Health: Health in the Working Environment: Fitness for Duty — Medical and Other Standards for Fitness to Work
027: Health: Health in the Working Environment: Fitness for Duty — Ageing Workforce
028: Health: Health in the Working Environment: Fitness for Duty — Contractor Fitness for Duty
029: Health: Health in the Working Environment: Fitness for Duty — Disability and Inclusion in the Workplace
030: Health: Health in the Working Environment: Fitness for Duty — Case Management, Rehabilitation, and Returning to Work Programme Following Sickness and Injuries
031: Health: Health in the Working Environment: Fitness for Duty — Substance Misuse/Abuse Management
032: Health: Health in the Working Environment: Disease Prevention and Management — Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases in the Oil and Gas Industry
033: Health: Health in the Working Environment: Disease Prevention and Management — Occupational Cancers and Diseases
034: Health: Industrial Hygiene: Industrial Hygiene Programme Management — Regulatory and Communication Issues in Hazard Assessment
035: Health: Industrial Hygiene: Industrial Hygiene Programme Management — Innovations in Risk Assessment and Management
036: Health: Industrial Hygiene: Industrial Hygiene Programme Management — Industrial Hygiene Metrics
037: Health: Industrial Hygiene: Industrial Hygiene Programme Management — Health Hazard Risk Reduction
038: Health: Industrial Hygiene: Industrial Hygiene Programme Management — Capacity Building in Occupational Hygiene
039: Health: Industrial Hygiene: Industrial Hygiene Programme Management — Industrial Hygiene Challenges
040: Health: Industrial Hygiene: Industrial Hygiene Programme Management — Sustainability and Industrial Hygiene
041: Health: Industrial Hygiene: Exposure Assessment and Control, Tools, Technology and Techniques — Monitoring and Statistical Tools
042: Health: Industrial Hygiene: Exposure Assessment and Control, Tools, Technology and Techniques — Control Banding
043: Health: Industrial Hygiene: Challenges and Emerging Issues and Lessons Learnt — PFAS (Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances)
044: Health: Industrial Hygiene: Challenges and Emerging Issues and Lessons Learnt — Lowering on Exposure limits
045: Health: Industrial Hygiene: Challenges and Emerging Issues and Lessons Learnt — Toxicological Assessment and Mitigation
046: Health: Industrial Hygiene: Challenges and Emerging Issues and Lessons Learnt — Chemical Exposures and Control but not limited to: Silica
047: Health: Industrial Hygiene: Challenges and Emerging Issues and Lessons Learnt — Chemical Exposures and Control but not limited to: Benzene
048: Health: Industrial Hygiene: Challenges and Emerging Issues and Lessons Learnt — Chemical Exposures and Control but not limited to: Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH)
049: Health: Industrial Hygiene: Challenges and Emerging Issues and Lessons Learnt — Exposure to Radioactivity including NORM and TENORM
050: Health: Industrial Hygiene: Challenges and Emerging Issues and Lessons Learnt — Sick Building Syndrome including HVAC System Issues
051: Health: Industrial Hygiene: Ergonomics — Human Machine Interface
052: Health: Industrial Hygiene: Ergonomics — Ergonomics of Remote Work
053: Health: Industrial Hygiene: Ergonomics — Human Factors in Design
054: Health: Industrial Hygiene: Ergonomics — Mobile Devices, and Virtual and Augmented Reality

Safety

055: Safety: Occupational Safety and Risk Management: Transport Safety — Land Transport, Rail, Vehicles, Journey Management, and Driver Monitoring
056: Safety: Occupational Safety and Risk Management: Transport Safety — Marine
057: Safety: Occupational Safety and Risk Management: Transport Safety — Aviation: Air Transport, Helicopter Best Practices, and Unmanned Airborne Vehicles
058: Safety: Occupational Safety and Risk Management: Operational Safety — Mechanical Lifting, Dropped Objects, Work at Height, and Chemical Safety
059: Safety: Occupational Safety and Risk Management: Operational Safety — Confined Space Entry
060: Safety: Occupational Safety and Risk Management: Operational Safety — Effective Language and Communication Tools (simplify the complex)
061: Safety: Occupational Safety and Risk Management: Operational Safety — Lab Safety Procedures 
062: Safety: Occupational Safety and Risk Management: Security — Asset and Personal Security
063: Safety: Occupational Safety and Risk Management: Security — Cyber Security
064: Safety: Process Safety and Risk Management: Process Safety — Physical Barriers and Asset Integrity
065: Safety: Process Safety and Risk Management: Process Safety — Asset Integrity including Aging Assets
066: Safety: Process Safety and Risk Management: Process Safety — Human Barriers
067: Safety: Process Safety and Risk Management: Process Safety — Managing Major Incident Risks and Emergency Response
068: Safety: Process Safety and Risk Management: Process Safety — Natech (natural hazard triggered technological)
069: Safety: Process Safety and Risk Management: Process Safety — Barrier Management
070: Safety: Process Safety and Risk Management: Operating Risk Management — Safety and Environmental Critical Elements/Risks
071: Safety: Process Safety and Risk Management: Operating Risk Management — Identification of Safety Critical Tasks
072: Safety: Process Safety and Risk Management: Operating Risk Management — Well Operations
073: Safety: Process Safety and Risk Management: Operating Risk Management — Downstream and Midstream — Refinery and Petrochemicals Operations
074: Safety: Process Safety and Risk Management: Operating Risk Management — Downstream and Midstream — Pipeline Safety
075: Safety: Process Safety and Risk Management: Advances in Modelling and Statistics
076: Safety: Strategy, Systems, and Processes: Management Systems — Industry Alignment/Harmonisation of Standards and Practices
077: Safety: Strategy, Systems, and Processes: Management Systems — Regulatory Compliance
078: Safety: Strategy, Systems, and Processes: Management Systems — Organisational Culture and Leadership
079: Safety: Strategy, Systems, and Processes: Management Systems — Management of Change
080: Safety: Strategy, Systems, and Processes: Audit and Assurance Programmes
081: Safety: Strategy, Systems, and Processes: Contractor Management/JVs and Stakeholder Management — Bridging Documents
082: Safety: Strategy, Systems, and Processes: Contractor Management/JVs and Stakeholder Management — Collaboration with Contractors, Partners, and Other Stakeholders
083: Safety: Strategy, Systems, and Processes: Contractor Management/JVs and Stakeholder Management — Contractor Pre-Qualification and Evaluation
084: Safety: Strategy, Systems, and Processes: Operational Excellence — Technology and Systems (Digital Twins, Wearables, IoT, AI etc.)
085: Safety: Strategy, Systems, and Processes: Operational Excellence — New Approaches, Innovation, and New Technology
086: Safety: Strategy, Systems, and Processes: Training and Competency — Non-Technical Skills/Competencies"
087: Safety: Strategy, Systems, and Processes: Training and Competency — Transferability between Industries"
088: Safety: Strategy, Systems, and Processes: Training and Competency — Effectiveness of Training Methodologies "
089: Safety: Strategy, Systems, and Processes: Learning from Events/Learning from Normal Work — Best Practices from Other Industries
090: Safety: Strategy, Systems, and Processes: Performance Management and Measurement
091: Safety: Strategy, Systems, and Processes: Safety Culture and Leadership (including Training and Tools, and Case Studies) — Workforce Involvement
092: Safety: Strategy, Systems, and Processes: Safety Culture and Leadership (including Training and Tools, and Case Studies) — Shaping HSE and Process Safety Culture
093: Safety: Strategy, Systems, and Processes: Safety Culture and Leadership (including Training and Tools, and Case Studies) — Accountability and Recognition
094: Safety: Strategy, Systems, and Processes: Safety in Projects — Worker Welfare
095: Safety: Strategy, Systems, and Processes: Safety in Projects — Accommodation and Living Conditions
096: Safety: Strategy, Systems, and Processes: Industry Standardisation and Regulatory Compliance
097: Safety: Strategy, Systems, and Processes: Emergency Response and Crisis Management
098: Safety: Strategy, Systems, and Processes: Human and Organisational Performance — Behaviour Engineering
099: Safety: Strategy, Systems, and Processes: Human and Organisational Performance — Human Error
100: Safety: Strategy, Systems, and Processes: Human and Organisational Performance — Psychological and Social Safety
101: Safety: Strategy, Systems, and Processes: Human and Organisational Performance — Fatigue Management
102: Safety: Strategy, Systems, and Processes: Human Factors, Ergonomics, and Engineering Design
103: Safety: Strategy, Systems, and Processes: Control of Work Systems
104: Safety: Strategy, Systems, and Processes: Managing Workforce Diversity — Language
105: Safety: Strategy, Systems, and Processes: Managing Workforce Diversity — Cross Cultural Challenges
106: Safety: Strategy, Systems, and Processes: Managing Workforce Diversity — Inclusive PPE

Environment

107: Environment: Environmental Management Systems: Design Considerations in the Oil and Gas Industry
108: Environment: Environmental Management Systems: Auditing
109: Environment: Environmental Management Systems: Environmental Aspects and Impacts Management (Systematic Control/Management of Regulatory Changes/Challenges)
110: Environment: Environmental Management Systems: Monitoring, Reporting, and Stewardship for Environmental Performance Improvement
111: Environment: Environmental Management Systems: Spills Prevention, Control, Counter Measures, Emergency Response, Clean-up and Remediation Technologies
112: Environment: Environmental Management Systems: Decommissioning (EG Legacy Assets, Natural Regeneration, and Habitat Retention)
113: Environment: Environmental Management Systems: Impact Assessment and Risk Management
114: Environment: Lower Carbon Strategies: CCS
115: Environment: Lower Carbon Strategies: Methane Emissions Management
116: Environment: Lower Carbon Strategies: CO2 Uses and Market
117: Environment: Resource Management: Circular Economy
118: Environment: Resource Management: Water Management (Including Produced Water and Water Use)
119: Environment: Resource Management: Resource Reuse and Creating Value
120: Environment: Resource Management: Energy Efficiency
121: Environment: Resource Management: Water Treatment and Recycling
122: Environment: Resource Management: Waste Management
123: Environment: Environmental Frameworks: Challenges and Opportunities: Collaboration With Regulators, Partners, or Other Stakeholders
124: Environment: Environmental Frameworks: Challenges and Opportunities: Government and Policies
125: Environment: Environmental Frameworks: Challenges and Opportunities: Regulatory Framework
126: Environment: Environmental Frameworks: Challenges and Opportunities: Developments in International Guidance and Best Practice
127: Environment: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Nature-Based Solutions
128: Environment: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Nature Positive Approaches and Strategies (for e.g., Offsets/NNL, Restoration, Conservation Actions, Biodiversity CSR, Policy Frameworks, etc.)
129: Environment: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Innovative Approaches for Impact Assessment and Mitigation (for e.g., Baseline, ESIA processes, Management Plans, Mitigation Hierarchy, M&ER, etc.)
130: Environment: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities in Implementing Biodiversity Best Practices (for e.g., Stakeholder Engagements, etc.)
131: Environment: Innovative Environmental Solutions and New Technologies: Data Management and Analysis
132: Environment: Innovative Environmental Solutions and New Technologies: AI
133: Environment: Innovative Environmental Solutions and New Technologies: Surveillance
134: Environment: Innovative Environmental Solutions and New Technologies: Leak Detection Technologies
135: Environment: Innovative Environmental Solutions and New Technologies: eDNA (Environmental Genomics)
136: Environment: Air Emissions Abatement Strategies and Technologies: Flaring
137: Environment: Air Emissions Abatement Strategies and Technologies: Greenhouse Gases

Sustainability

138: Sustainability: Creating Value: Shared Value in Consortiums, Partnerships, and Joint Ventures
139: Sustainability: Creating Value: Value Through Engagement with Communities
140: Sustainability: Creating Value: Value Creation within Organisations
141: Sustainability: Creating Value: Through the Energy Transition
142: Sustainability: Social Risk Management, Human Rights, and Value Chain Or Managing Social Impacts and Human Rights throughout the Value Chain: Managing Company-Community Conflict and Engagement
143: Sustainability: Social Risk Management, Human Rights, and Value Chain Or Managing Social Impacts and Human Rights throughout the Value Chain: Environmental Impacts on Workers and Communities
144: Sustainability: Social Risk Management, Human Rights, and Value Chain Or Managing Social Impacts and Human Rights throughout the Value Chain: Managing Supply Chain
145: Sustainability: Social Risk Management, Human Rights, and Value Chain Or Managing Social Impacts and Human Rights throughout the Value Chain: Hiring Practices, Working Conditions, and Labour Rights
146: Sustainability: Social Risk Management, Human Rights, and Value Chain Or Managing Social Impacts and Human Rights throughout the Value Chain: Addressing Human Rights and Security Risks
147: Sustainability: Accountability to Different Stakeholders (Communities, Employees, Investors, Government, etc.): Monitoring Performance
148: Sustainability: Accountability to Different Stakeholders (Communities, Employees, Investors, Government, etc.): Evaluation of Social Performance
149: Sustainability: Accountability to Different Stakeholders (Communities, Employees, Investors, Government, etc.): Measuring Social Impact
150: Sustainability: Stakeholder Engagement and Social Acceptance: Best Practices in Engaging Stakeholders
151: Sustainability: Stakeholder Engagement and Social Acceptance: Role of Internal Stakeholder
152: Sustainability: Stakeholder Engagement and Social Acceptance: Use of Technology to Monitor Stakeholder Commitments and Constantly Evolving Social Contexts
153: Sustainability: Impact Opportunities for Sustainable Development: Integration of and Alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals
154: Sustainability: Impact Opportunities for Sustainable Development: Water and Sustainable Development
155: Sustainability: Impact Opportunities for Sustainable Development: Energy Poverty: Access to Energy
156: Sustainability: Impact Opportunities for Sustainable Development: The Circular Economy
157: Sustainability: Enabling Net Zero: Technologies for the Low Carbon Economy
158: Sustainability: Enabling Net Zero: Resilience and Adaptation
159: Sustainability: Enabling Net Zero: Low Carbon Products (Low Carbon Strategies)
160: Sustainability: Enabling Net Zero: Climate Risk Management
161: Sustainability: Enabling Net Zero: Just Transition
162: Sustainability: Operationalising Sustainability: Responsible and Sustainable Sourcing
163: Sustainability: Operationalising Sustainability: Product Stewardship-Efficient, Low Impact, Lower Cost, Long Life, and Design for Environment
164: Sustainability: Operationalising Sustainability: Embedding Sustainability in the Organisation
165: Sustainability: ESG Performance Monitoring, Measuring, and Reporting: Sustainability Metrics for Business Decision Making
166: Sustainability: ESG Performance Monitoring, Measuring, and Reporting: ESG Reporting, KPIs for the Industry
167: Sustainability: ESG Performance Monitoring, Measuring, and Reporting: Double Materiality Assessment

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