TEMA SAC TECHNICAL CONFERENCES, Lima Peru
The event was held in Lima on 4th and 5th July and was attended by authorities and professionals with extensive local and international experience, who made up the panels of experts.
The first block of presentations was dedicated to news in environmental licensing and industrial safety, where the representative of the Strategies Department of the General Directorate of Environmental Quality of the Ministry of the Environment of Peru (MINAM) presented a paper on Instruments for the Management and Certification of Environmental Quality; specialists from the Supervisory Body of Investment in Energy and Mining of Peru (OSINERGMIN) discussed the implementation of DS 043-2007-EM as an instrument to manage industrial safety; and the Manager of Environment, Safety and Quality-Pacific E&P of the company REPSOL spoke about Comprehensive Risk Management. At this themed module, experts from TEMA S.A. and TEMA SAC presented details on the impact of the new special ´provisions of the Council of Ministers for Environmental Licensing and on the development of Risk Analyses, pursuant to RCA 240-2010-05/CD.
At the second block of presentations, aimed at the management of soil and underground water contamination, the Ministry of the Environment of Peru (ECA-MINAM) emphasized the Challenges and Solutions of Management in the new soil ECA, and the Head of Departament of Management of Contaminated Soil at the Government of Catalonia spoke about Methodological Guides for Research Technologies, as well as the experience in contaminated soil management accumulated throughout the entity’s 20-year existence. In this section, the General Manager of TEMA SAC presented cases studies of remediation technologies. The company associated with TEMA for soil research and remediation, LITOCLEAN, actively participated in this panel through its manager, who outlined risk management methodology as a management tool and shared with the audience the company’s vast experience in this area, compiled from its works executed at sites in Europe and Latin America.
The roundtables organised on both days facilitated interesting exchanges of ideas and criteria between event attendees.