Anatomy of a domino accident: Roots, triggers and lessons learnt

Abdolhamidzadeh, Bahman; Hassan, Che Rosmani Che; Hamid, Mahar Diana; FarrokhMehr, Sajjad; Badri, Naser; Rashtchian, Davood

doi:10.1016/j.psep.2012.04.003

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“…At present, the MEM is investigating the indirect causes of the accident. Typically, large‐scale accidents occur because of unexpected chain reaction events among multiple failures . The Yima explosion accident just like other accidents else.…”

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A brief report and analysis on the July 19, 2019, explosion in the Yima gasification plant in Sanmenxia, China

Wang

Zhu

2019

Process Safety Progress

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This short article presents some basic facts related to the explosion accident that occurred on July 19, 2019, in the Yima gasification plant located in Sanmenxia City, Henan Province, China. This huge explosion killed 15 people and seriously injured 16. The article introduces the background, scenes, and possible causes of this explosion. Moreover, this study proposes some measures to prevent and control similar accidents. This article can provide some basic information for a further investigation and analysis on this explosion.

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A brief report and analysis on the July 19, 2019, explosion in the Yima gasification plant in Sanmenxia, China

Wang

Zhu

2019

Process Safety Progress

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“…Based on the above, the enterprise should strengthen the construction of a safety culture to form a good safety climate within the organization and try to make all staff understand the importance of safety . Moreover, the organization should be equipped with enough professional safety management personnel, develop a practical safety management system, and especially strengthen the assessment of the implementation effect for some key procedures, such as hazard identification, safety inspection, and safety training.…”

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Comparative analysis of two catastrophic hazardous chemical accidents in China

Wang

Gui

Yan

2020

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On March 21, 2019, a serious explosion of hazardous chemicals occurred in Tianjiayi Company located in Xiangshui Chemical Industry Park in Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province, China. Seventy‐eight people were killed and 716 were injured. It is the most severe accident since the globally recognized fire and explosion at a hazardous chemical warehouse in Tianjin Port, Tianjin, China in 2015. According to the preliminary analysis of the Yancheng accident and the review of previous studies about the Tianjin Port accident, there are similarities regarding the process of the two accidents. Therefore, in addition to reporting the investigation results of the Yancheng accident, an important aim of this work is to focus on the brief comparative analysis between it and the Tianjin Port accident. The comparisons were mainly conducted according to the basic information of the events, triggers and processes, individual factors, organizational management factors, external regulatory factors, and then the differences and similarities between the two accidents are summarized. Thus, useful lessons in the aspects of the storage and management of hazardous chemicals, safety training and accident learning, implementation of safety management system, government supervision, and so on, can be drawn to avoid similar mistakes within the industry.

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“…In the event tree, the initial event is the disruptive event, which is assumed 2) Event sequence diagram for emergency measures: ESD is a graphical visualization tool to describe the sequence of related events [37]. It has been applied widely to model emergency actions and assess the risk of domino effects after the initial damage event [40][41][42]. In ESD, events are classified into four categories [42]:…”

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An integrated modeling framework for quantitative business continuity assessment

Zeng

Zio

2017

Process Safety and Environmental Protection

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Systems are increasingly exposed to threats of disruptive events, e.g., failures, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, etc. A proactive approach is needed to protect the business and reduce the potential losses caused by these disruptive events. Business Continuity Management (BCM) is a way to integrate the recovery process within the preventive framework of risk assessment. Such integrated risk management strategy offers great potential benefits. However, the complexity of applying it in practice is such that existing BCM strategies are mainly based on qualitative methods only, which limits the potential added values. To support quantitative BCM, in this paper we define a set of quantitative business continuity metrics. The defined metrics are based on the estimated losses incurred by the disruptive event in the whole business process. For this, the business process is divided into four sequential phases, i.e., protection phase, mitigation phase, emergency phase and recovery phase. For each phase, a specific modeling method is developed and an integrated modeling framework is constructed for the business continuity. Simulation can, then, be used to quantify the business continuity metrics. The developed methods are applied to assess the business continuity of an oil storage tank farm

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Anatomy of a domino accident: Roots, triggers and lessons learnt

Cited by 34 publications

References 10 publications

A brief report and analysis on the July 19, 2019, explosion in the Yima gasification plant in Sanmenxia, China

A brief report and analysis on the July 19, 2019, explosion in the Yima gasification plant in Sanmenxia, China

Comparative analysis of two catastrophic hazardous chemical accidents in China

An integrated modeling framework for quantitative business continuity assessment

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