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Behind the scenes: interviews for a TV documentary on engineering

Six IChemE members recently featured in the second series of TV documentary series, Disasters Engineered. 

Aired on the National Geographic channel, the documentary examined various chemical, structural, and mechanical engineering incidents. Each episode looked at the causes of two incidents, why and how they happened, how they affected people, and what changes have been made in the industry as a result.

So, we caught up with three of the members – Zsuzsanna Gyenes, Fiona Macleod and Stephen Richardson – to understand how they felt to be part of the series, and why they feel it is important for the public to see chemical and process engineers giving expert accounts of safety incidents.

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Season’s greetings (Day 212)

SantaHello everyone, if you’re lucky enough to be on holiday today enjoying the seasonal holidays, I hope you’ll spare a thought for those workers in the chemical and process industry working hard to provide the energy, food, water and medicines (especially those indigestion tablets!) we all need to make Christmas a special time of year.

It’s now tradition that IChemE makes a donation to charity rather than send Christmas cards.

This year we are supporting the Chingari Trust, a non-profit, non-political organisation that works with the victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy and local communities, and the Disasters Emergency Committee Ebola Crisis Appeal.

If you’ve not seen it already on IChemE’s YouTube channel, I’ve also recorded a Christmas message.

Merry Christmas everyone!