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Risk management

29 May 2018, Published under Cement News

In this month’s Technical Forum, Dr Michael Clark examines how companies approach risk and the various management techniques that can be used to control it.  Cement companies must guard against complacency with regard to risk management During the last 18 months the moderator has been witness to some very adverse outcomes for cement companies around the world. Occasionally, the outcomes arose from unpredictable equipment failures or other factors beyond management control, while...

Alternative fuel projects

01 September 2014, Published under Cement News

Dr Clark is inspired to consider alternative fuel project assessment and methodology following the paper presented by Brian McGrath of ResourceCo at the Cemtech Asia 2014 conference in June. After providing a background to the place of alternative fuels in terms of world energy consumption, Mr McGrath adopted a risk-based approach to assess the potential success of such projects. The successful introduction of alternative fuels is helped by a risk-based approach that considers the ...