EFCE Excellence Award in Process Safety

  
The EFCE presents a triennial Excellence Award to recognise a PhD thesis or papers published in the preceding three-year period, which demonstrates outstanding contribution to research and/or practice in process safety. This document describes how this award series will operate and the rules & procedures governing nomination and selection of candidates.
 

The award will comprise

• A certificate
• A cash award of  1500 Euros
  
• Free access to the Loss Prevention Symposium
• A travel grant (up to 500 Euros) to attend the Loss Prevention Symposium, where the award will be presented
   
  

The award will be presented

• at the triennial Loss Prevention Symposium, in plenary session.
   
  

Eligibility

• The award is presented primarily to researchers or engineers at the begin of their career, who have made excellent contributions to safety in the Process Industries.
• Nominations can be submitted by
• PhD supervisors at a PhD-awarding institution in an EFCE member country
• Members of a national or regional member association of EFCE
• Self-nominations are excluded. No more than one nomination can be submitted by the same person
• The nominated PhD Thesis or publication must address a topic relevant to the field of Process Safety.
• The nominated PhD Thesis or publication must have been published during the three calendar years preceding the closing date for nominations.
• The nominated PhD Thesis must have been completed and published and the PhD degree examined and awarded.
   
  

Evaluation procedure

The evaluation will be a two-step process:
Step 1:    A Jury nominated by the EFCE Loss Prevention Working Party will evaluate the nominations and recommend a winner  
                together with two alternatives to the EFCE subcommittee.
Step 2:   A subcommittee nominated by the EFCE board will confirm the recommended winner, or select another winner out of the
                two alternatives, in which case the reasons for rejection of the recommendation is communicated to the Loss Prevention
                Working Party

The decision in step 2 is final and no discussions of any kind will be entered into.
 

Publication of selected work

The successful candidate will be invited to make a presentation at the Loss Prevention Symposium at which the Award is presented. The presentation will be published in the proceedings of the Symposium and/or in ChERD or PSEP.
 

Call for Nominations

Award winners