GSE Systems Announces New Webinar on COMAH Compliance for Functional Safety

SYKESVILLE, Md. & TEESIDE, United Kingom--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Through its wholly-owned subsidiary, GSE Systems Ltd., global energy industry performance improvement company GSE Systems, Inc. (NYSE MKT: GVP) ("GSE") will be hosting the latest in a series of webinars to help Health, Safety and Environment (HSE), engineering and operations managers gain a detailed understanding of how to implement the new COMAH 2015 Regulations.

This third webinar in the series, "5 Areas for Ensuring Functional Safety Compliance to Achieve Optimum Risk Management Performance," will explain ways in which companies can reduce and manage the risks associated with Functional Safety to ensure that they comply with the COMAH requirements through IEC 61511.

Peter Hopkin, Senior Engineer and Quality Manager at GSE Systems, who will be presenting the seminar stated, "New COMAH regulations were introduced in June and now affect a far wider range of businesses that store or use hazardous substances. Our goal is to help site operators prepare for and manage these changes, developing best practices to ensure compliance as cost effectively, safely and efficiently as possible."

The new webinar will focus on methods of improving risk and system performance by careful application of the new regulatory guidelines throughout the lifecycle of a safety system. The webinar will also cover areas such as maintenance, operator interfaces and ergonomics, alarm interaction and responses, plus associated alarm management guidelines, proof testing, record keeping and the competence of personnel.

The webinar will take place on Thursday 8^th October. Attendees can register online by clicking here.

The first two webinars in the series are also online and can be found by clicking these links:

Part 1: 3 Areas of Compliance and What You Need to Know

Part 2: 5 Areas for Assessing Explosive Atmospheres Risk Management Performance

About GSE Systems, Inc.

GSE Systems, Inc. provides performance improvement solutions to the energy and process industries. We improve human performance through turnkey training, unique visualization and simulation applications, and our staff of instructors, as well as plant improvement through our engineering expertise and use of technology to improve plant design, commissioning and operations. The Company has more than 340 employees and over four decades of experience as well as more than 1,100 installations and hundreds of customers in over 50 countries spanning the globe. GSE Systems is headquartered in Sykesville (Baltimore), Maryland, with offices in St. Marys, Georgia; Cary, North Carolina; Huntsville, Alabama; Chennai, India; Nyköping, Sweden; Stockton-on-Tees, UK; Glasgow, UK; Manama, Bahrain; and Beijing, China. Information about GSE Systems is available at www.gses.com.

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