FOREWORD
  
         In 2003, the Singapore Registrar of Societies approved the formation of the “Institute of Explosive Engineers (Singapore Branch). IExpE (Singapore Branch) is affiliated with the Institute of Explosive Engineers in UK, a professional body of the explosive community in UK and worldwide

         IExpE (Singapore Branch) is a non-profit incorporated association established to serve the explosive community in Singapore. An important part of our mission is to promote the occupational competency, education and professional standing of those who work with explosives and the Institute’s Management Committee had discussed the means to achieve this mission. One of our immediate action plans is to provide education and training service to the explosive community in Singapore to ensure the competency of the individual in their specialised fields of explosives technology and for the continuing improvement of training standards.

         Guarding against catastrophic accidents in the testing, handling, transportation, storage, use and disposal of explosives requires constant attention and must be avoided by all possible means.  One of the most important requirements is to know the “hazards of explosives” and have necessary “skill sets” to deal with them “safely”.  In addition, the revised Singapore Work Place Safety and Health Regulations require a workplace to carry out a suitable and sufficient risk assessment for all of their activities. To carry out effective risk assessment in the context of explosive activities will require a great deal of technical understanding to identify all hazards and ensure that the risks associate with explosives are tolerable through putting in place a “Safe Systems of Work”.  The “Safe Systems of Work” comprises the elements include competent workers, adequate supervision, suitable written work instructions, approve work equipment and adequate & safe work facilities. The ultimate effort is to ensure that the risks associated are reduced to ALARP.
 
     The intent of the three Explosives Safety Related Courses, i.e. Storage & handling; transportation & handling and risk management of activities involving explosives; these three explosives safety courses cover a wide spectrum of safety knowledge in storage, handling, and the transportation of explosives based on the international best practices and local statutory requirements as well as how explosives risks can be assessed and effectively managed. So if you are an employer or employee in this industry and want to learn more about safety of explosives on the aspect of storage, handling, transportation and operational risk management, these are the right courses for you.  Please do give us your valuable feedback after you had attended them.
Thank you.    

Yen Chong Lian

President

Institute of Explosives Engineers (Singapore)