Risk Management Practices at

HIsmelt's Kwinana Plant

Andy Burrow, Manager Training
Risk Engineering
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EVENT DETAILS
Date:
Wednesday, 21 May 2008
Time:
5.30 pm for a 6.00 pm start
(Light refreshments will be served
prior to the presentation)
Venue:
Auditorium
Engineers Australia
712 Murray Street
West Perth
Cost:
Free
RSVP:
Not required

Successive governments, various economists and numerous mining industry pundits

have described the financial bonanza that could be Australias if only the local mining
industry would add value to the bulk raw materials we routinely export. Very few
processes have met this challenge. Very few organisations have shown much
patience and determination to produce a value-added product. Rio Tinto Iron Ore
has achieved some measure of success in this area, and has now developed the
commercial sized, HIsmelt plant in Kwinana. The HIsmelt process creates pig iron
ingots directly from iron ore fines, increasing the value of the export several fold.
The Risk Engineering Society (incorporating the Forensics Engineering Society)
invites you to attend an evening technical presentation on the HIsmelt process, and
the challenges in Risk Management that have been met by the HIsmelt team.
The evenings presentation will begin with a short video that gives a brief overview of
the HIsmelt process and plant. The video will be followed with a presentation by
Andy Burrow, the Manager Training at HIsmelt. Andys presentation will focus on the
various risk management processes that have been applied from the plant
conceptualization stage, through design, construction, commissioning, start-up and
operation.
About the Guest Speaker:
Andy Burrow holds an MSc Eng Degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa. Andy
worked with Anglo American Corporation, and with Middelburg Steels and Alloys
while in South Africa. Moving to New Zealand, Andy worked for New Zealand Steel
for 10 years at its Ironmaking Plant located southwest of Auckland. Andy joined
HIsmelt at the end of 1996 as a Shift Manager for the start-up and operation of the
pilot plant in Kwinana.
After the HIsmelt pilot plant project was completed and the plant was shut down in
the late 90's, Andy became involved in various technical development and marketing
support roles during the conceptual design, development, and final design phases of
the commercial sized HIsmelt plant that is now operating at Kwinana. Amongst other
activities while in these roles, Andy was involved with the facilitation, coordination
and follow-up of the HAZOP process at the plant. When operator recruitment and
plant commissioning activities started for the new facility, Andy took up his current
position as Manager Training.
Please join us in the Auditorium at Engineers Australia for this not to be missed
presentation on practical issues in risk management within the WA mining industry.

712 Murray Street, West Perth WA 6005

Phone: (08) 9321 3340 Fax: (08) 9481 4332
E-mail: wa@engineersaustralia.org.au
Website: www.wa.engineersaustralia.org.au

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