An Analysis of Hazardous Chemical Accidents in China between 2006 and 2017

Zhao, Laijun; Qian, Ying; Hu, Qi; Jiang, Ruming; Li, Meiting; Xulei, Wang

doi:10.3390/su10082935

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“…Because of the large quantity, variety and high risk of hazardous chemicals, the potential storage hazards can exceed those of the production, transportation and use of hazardous chemicals. Human factors play an important role in the occurrence of hazardous chemical accidents in China [ 1 , 2 ]. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze and identify human factors in hazardous chemical storage accidents.…”

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Analysis of Human Factors Relationship in Hazardous Chemical Storage Accidents

Jiang

Han²,

Zhou

et al. 2020

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Human factors are important causes of hazardous chemical storage accidents, and clarifying the relationship between human factors can help to identify the logical chain between unsafe behaviors and influential factors in accidents. Therefore, the human factor relationship of hazardous chemical storage accidents was studied in this paper. First, the human factors analysis and classification system (HFACS), which originated from accident analysis in the aviation field, was introduced. Since some items were designed for aviation accident analysis, such as the item “Crew Resource Management”, it is not fully applicable to the analysis of hazardous chemical storage accidents. Therefore, this article introduced some modifications and changes to make the HFACS model suitable for the analysis of hazardous chemical storage accidents. Based on the improved HFACS model, 42 hazardous chemicals storage accidents were analyzed, and the causes were classified. After analysis, we found that under the HFACS framework, the most frequent cause of accidents is resource management, followed by violations and inadequate supervision, and finally the organizational process and technological environment. Finally, according to the statistical results for the various causes of accidents obtained from the improved HFACS analysis, the chi-square test and odds ratio analysis were used to further explore the relevance of human factors in hazardous chemical storage accidents. The 16 groups of significant causal relationships among the four levels of factors include resource management and inadequate supervision, planned inappropriate operations and technological environment, inadequate supervision and physical/mental limitations, and technological environment and skill-based errors, among others.

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Analysis of Human Factors Relationship in Hazardous Chemical Storage Accidents

Jiang

Han²,

Zhou

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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“…Next, we define ϕ D , ϕ P , and ϕ A in Equations (6), (7), and (8) as the percentage difference between a solution and the optimum reached when minimizing an objective in isolation (denoted *):…”

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“…The safe disposal of these materials is crucial for ensuring that humans do not encounter potentially dangerous and life-threatening chemicals. While highway infrastructure may ultimately allow for the fastest viable transportation of these materials to their eventual disposal sites, it also poses significant risks to human safety in the event of a traffic accident or unintended leakage [7]. In many cases, local, state, and federal laws dictate that highway routing schemes for transportation of hazardous materials must be designed to preserve human safety.…”

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Minimizing the Risks of Highway Transport of Hazardous Materials

Goldberg

Hong

2019

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Many key industrial and scientific processes, such as the generation of nuclear energy, are of enormous social benefit as energy demand and consumption grow over time. However, a drawback of several such processes is the production of hazardous waste materials, which often requires transportation along highway networks to treatment or disposal facilities. This waste can represent a safety hazard to civilians located along the transportation route. Most prior literature in this domain considers risk within only a single facet, and thus several important risk factors may not be considered. In our paper, we propose a multi-objective program to allow for the analysis and selection of minimally risky routes for hazardous materials transportation. The model assesses risk factors including the length of the selected route, the total population in areas surrounding the selected route, and the likelihood of an accident occurring along the selected route. Our paper uniquely uses geographic information systems (GIS) technology to model this optimization problem. This approach allows us to model risk along multiple dimensions simultaneously. We collect empirical data to test the model and present a case study for risk mitigation using a study area located in California. We show that our multi-objective approach is effective in presenting the decision-maker with a portfolio of solutions that perform well via each factor.

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“…Although the number of hazardous chemical accidents (HCAs) in China has shown a downward trend in recent years [1], there are still a large number of casualties and economic losses caused by HCAs. Based on the analysis of 3974 HCAs in China from 2006 to 2018, it has been found that 50.57% of HCAs were caused by unsafe behavior [2]. Similarly, it has been found that 35% of all HCAs in China from 2007 to 2010 were caused by the violation of operation rules [3], and 44% of all HCAs in China from 2011 to 2013 were caused by unsafe behavior [4].…”

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Cause Analysis of Unsafe Behaviors in Hazardous Chemical Accidents: Combined with HFACs and Bayesian Network

Liu

Liu³

2019

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Hazardous chemical accidents (HCAs) seriously endanger public life, property, and health. Human and organizational factors are important causes of many kinds of accidents. In order to systematically explore the influencing factors of unsafe behaviors in HCAs in China, the method of human factors analysis and classification system based on the Bayesian network (BN-HFACs) was introduced. According to the 39 investigation reports of HCAs in China, the origin Bayesian network (BN) was obtained and the failure sensitivity of every node in BN was calculated. The results have shown that hazardous material environment (1.63) and mechanical equipment (0.49) in the level of preconditions of unsafe behavior have the same direction failure effect with operation error, while there is no factor has the same direction failure effect with operation violate. Some factors in organization influence and unsafe supervision, such as organization climate (0.34), operation guidance (0.37), planned operation (0.22), and legal supervision (0.19), are also important reasons for operational errors, while resource management (0.12), hidden investigation (0.18) and legal supervision (0.13) have an impact on operation violates. Moreover, there are still close relationships between other hierarchical elements, such as the operation guidance effect on the hazardous material environment (6.60), and the organizational climate has the most obvious impact on other factors at the level of organizational factors. Based on the above research conclusions, suggestions for individual, enterprise, and government were put forward, respectively, and the limitations of this study were also clarified.

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An Analysis of Hazardous Chemical Accidents in China between 2006 and 2017

Cited by 44 publications

References 28 publications

Analysis of Human Factors Relationship in Hazardous Chemical Storage Accidents

Analysis of Human Factors Relationship in Hazardous Chemical Storage Accidents

Minimizing the Risks of Highway Transport of Hazardous Materials

Cause Analysis of Unsafe Behaviors in Hazardous Chemical Accidents: Combined with HFACs and Bayesian Network

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