CULLEN

The UK government enquiry into the Piper Alpha disaster in the North Sea in 1988 has had a significant impact on working practices and equipment and has helped to improve offshore safety around the world. One result has been the development of a Safety Management System (SMS) which is a method of integrating work practices, and is a form of quality management system. Major oil companies have each developed their own specific SMS, to suit local environments and modes of operation, but the SMS typically addresses the following areas (recommended by the Cullen Enquiry into the Piper Alpha disaster) ... 

Cullen reviewed this philosophy and the way in which it was applied, endorsing the approach and recommending that it should be applied to the offshore sector... 

Cullen J. M. 1994 Managing the New Product Introduction Process for Quality, Reliability, Cost and Speed. In Proceedings IMechE International Conference on Design Competitive Advantage - Making the Most of Design, Coventry, 23-24 March, Paper C482. 

Textbook of Clinical Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Rosenstock L, Cullen MR, eds. (W.B. Saunders, 1994). 

W. D. Cullen, The Public Inquity into the Piper Alpha Disaster, Her Majesty s Stationery Office, London, 1990, especially Paragraphs 6.109, 6.187, 11.3, and 18.29. 

The following descriphon is taken from Appendix D of CCPS (1992a). (The results of the public inquiry on the disaster are in Cullen, 1990.)... 

FIGURE 7.1. Simplified Process Diagram Hydrocarbon Leak From Pipe (from Cullen, 1990). 

Cullen, the Hon. Lord (1990). The Public Inquiry into the Piper Alpha Disaster. UK. Dept, of Energy. London Her Majesty s Stationery Office. 

Joseph Black was born in Bordeaux, France, the fourth child of parents of Scottish extraction. His father was a native of Belfast engaged in the Bordeaux wine trade his mother was a daughter of an Aberdeen man who had settled in Bordeaux. In all. Black s parents had twelve children. At the age of twelve Black was sent to school in Belfast, and around 1744 proceeded to the University of Glasgow. Black followed the standard curriculum until pressed by his father to choose a profession. He opted for medicine. Black began to study anatomy and chemisti-y. William Cullen had recently inaugurated lectures in chemisti y that were to have a decisive influence on Black s career. Recognizing Black s aptitude, Cullen employed Black as his laboratory assistant. 

In 1748, William Cullen of the University of Glasgow in. Scotland made the earliest demonstration of inati-... 

Cullen, N., Energy cost management in water supply, BPMA 11 Conference, April (1989). 

Mr. Wondrich said that he got the idea for rye whiskey dosed with Tabasco sauce from a book of hard-luck stories, Tales of the Ex-Tanks, which purports to be the minutes of the Harlem Club of Former Alcoholic Degenerates, written by Clarence Louis Cullen, a New York Sun reporter, and published in 1900. 

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