High Institute of Nuclear Sciences and Technology
                             SAFIND’2003
                     5th International workshop
                      SAFETY INDUSTRY CATHEDRA
                       March 4th at 7th, 2003
                            Havana, Cuba

                             INVITATION

The High Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology Rector, through the Department of Nuclear Engineering
of the Nuclear Science and Technology Faculty, summons all specialists in the field of the Industry Safety to
participate in their V International Workshop. It will take place from March 4th to 7th, 2003.

In the Scientific Meeting the main topics are:

IndustrySafety and Maintenance Management.
Symposiumon Energy Conversion Methods


The Safety Industry Cathedra is an entity created in August of 1995 as a result of the First International
Workshop on the Evaluation of the Industrial Safety

and Accident Prevention that took place in the High Institute of Nuclear Sciences and Technology (ISCTN).

The Safety Industry Cathedra has the task to summon the International Workshop Safety, divulge and promote the
safety culture among the several organisms and domestic and foreigners institutions related with activities of design,
operation, maintenance, analysis, supervision and industrial and transport facilities management with implicit
associate dangers to their activity, as well as research center, of higher education and training.

The formers call for the International Workshop has relied on the participation of specialists from more than thirty
productive centers and scientists of eight ministries and foreign specialists of recognizing international prestige in the
thematic.


                        ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

              Dr. José de Jesús Rivero Oliva (Chairman)
          MSc. Alberto Rolo Naranjo (General Coordination)
                     Dra. Margarita Piedra Díaz
                      MSc. Manuel Perdomo Ojeda
                      MSc. Lázaro García Parra


                    COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION

       Instituto Superior de Ciencias y Tecnología Nucleares.
        Ave Salvador Allende y Luaces. Quinta de los Molinos.
                Plaza, AP: 6163. Ciudad Habana, CUBA
                Tel.: (537) 8785018, 8703913, 8797858
                     FAX: (537) 8785018, 2041188

                     lgarcia@ fctn.isctn.edu.cu
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ACTIVITIES

SAFIND'2003 will include the following activities:
ConferencesDemonstrationsand poster session.
PostgraduateCourses. Training in different thematic, with a duration of 40 hours. The definite thematic in this
    first advertisement is:

Analysisand prevention of metallurgical failure and its influence on maintenance. [Dr. Pablo D. Bilnes.
    Universidad de la Plata. Argentina]
Systemsreliability and risks management. [Dr. Jesús Rivero Oliva. Cuba]
Predictiontechniques in Maintenance. [Dra. Margarita Piedra Díaz. Cuba, Ing. Julio Carvajal Brenes]
IndustrialRadiation Protection [Dr. Massimo Zucchetti. Politecnico di Torino]

TOPICS

For the event are proposed, without restrictive character, the following discussion topics (a work would refer to one
or several topics):

Safety Industry Cathedra and Maintenance Management
Organization,regulation and globalization of safety.
Humanfactors.
Safety-and-reliabilityoriented maintenance.
Maintenancemanagement. Predictive maintenance.
Safetyevaluation. Risk analysis.
Environmentalimpact evaluations of accidents.
Computertools for failure and accidents processing.
Emergencies.Accident Management. Preparedness and emergency plans.
CAD/CAETools in Maintenance and Industry Safety.

Symposium on Energy Conversion Methods.
Applicationof the Probabilistic Safety Analysis approach to renewable energy systems.
Fundamentaland applied research in the energetic potential determination.
Experiencesin the Renewable Energy implementation.
New materials in the energetic efficiency research.


ABSTRACTS FORMAT AND DEADLINE

Authors should send a page (letter format or A/4) by e-mail, with the title of the paper, full name,
complete each author address (including e-mail address, fax and phone number), five keywords
(200-250 words), before december 15th 2002 to the Chairman of Organizing Committee
SAFIND’2003.


PAPERS PRESENTATIONS NORMS

Full paper will be accepted in Spanish or English and should be send by e-mail to the Organizing
Committee before January 15th  2003, according with the following specifications:
Top margin: 3 cm; bottom margin: 2 cm; left margin: 3 cm and right margin: 1 cm.
Writtenusing Microsoft Word for Windows 97 or previous version,; page format: letter; font:
    Times New Roman, size 12.
The paper must include: Title, author full names and y affiliation, complete address from each
    author (including e-mail address, fax and phone numbers) institutions, abstracts, five
    keywords and the size should not exceed 8 pages, including figures, tables, bibliography and
    appendix.


                          OFICIAL LANGUAJES

                        ENGLISH  AND SPANISH

                            INSCRIPTION

                /before january 15th  2003:/  100 USD
                /after january 15th  2003:/ 150 USD.




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Msc. Lazaro Roger Garcia Parra
Instituto Superior de Ciencias y Tecnologia Nucleares
Quinta de los Molinos
Ave. Salvador Allende y Luaces
Ciudad de la Habana
Cuba
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Apartado Postal 6163
Telef  : (537) 8785018 y 8797858
FAX  (537) 8755018