Balancing safety with sustainability: assessing the risk of accidents for modern low-carbon energy systems

Sovacool, Benjamin K.; Andersen, Rasmus; Sorensen, S.M.; Sørensen, Kenneth; Tienda, Victor; Vainorius, Arturas; Schirach, Oliver Marc; Bjørn-Thygesen, Frans

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.07.059

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“…These disruptions can affect energy systems as well as community resilience and they can be triggered by different causes, such as man-made (e.g., lack of maintenance), technological (e.g., collapses of an infrastructure) and natural (e.g., earthquake, floods), resulting in events such as explosions, fires and release of toxic substances. These detrimental happenings can have negative outcomes that can be characterized in multiple forms, including fatalities, injuries, evacuees, ban on consumption of food, release of toxic substances and economic losses (Burgherr et al, 2015, Sovacool et al, 2016. A few initiatives have been proposed to consistently collect information on accidents in the energy sector, by employing descriptors that include the location of the accidents, the type of energy chain and infrastructure as well as the type of detrimental events (Burgherr et al 2015, Sovacool et al 2015, Sovacool et al 2016.…”

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“…These detrimental happenings can have negative outcomes that can be characterized in multiple forms, including fatalities, injuries, evacuees, ban on consumption of food, release of toxic substances and economic losses (Burgherr et al, 2015, Sovacool et al, 2016. A few initiatives have been proposed to consistently collect information on accidents in the energy sector, by employing descriptors that include the location of the accidents, the type of energy chain and infrastructure as well as the type of detrimental events (Burgherr et al 2015, Sovacool et al 2015, Sovacool et al 2016. Sovacool et al (2015) proposed a dataset of 1085 energy accidents for 11 energy systems over the period 1874-2014.…”

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A composite policy tool to measure territorial resilience capacity

Pontarollo

Serpieri

2020

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

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A composite policy tool to measure territorial resilience capacity

Pontarollo

Serpieri

2020

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

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“…To deal with the problems of current risk assessment tools, many researchers have developed new methods [45][46][47][48]. One of these methods is the FRAM, which is established in resilience engineering, providing an empirical approach that aims to describe and analyse emerging fault in complex socio-technical systems [43,49].…”

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A Resilience Engineering Approach for Sustainable Safety in Green Construction

Rosa

Franca

Haddad

et al. 2017

J. sustain. dev. energy water environ. syst.

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Sustainable construction is a complex endeavour, involving various stakeholders and resulting in situations that are incompletely described or underspecified. Traditional risk assessment methods require a detailed description of the system and safety, focusing on undesirable outcomes, losses, incidents and accidents. Developing this principle, this research describes a new way to deal with risk assessment in the green construction industry using a resilience engineering method based on the functional resonance analysis method and analytic hierarchy process methodologies. The functional resonance analysis method defines a systemic framework to model complex systems based on combinations of function variabilities during normal work. Therefore, to quantify the outcomes for risk assessment, this method was used together with the analytic hierarchy process in a case study during the modernisation work on the Maracanã stadium in Rio de Janeiro. The results of this case study demonstrate that the combined utilisation of the functional resonance analysis method and analytic hierarchy process can be utilised to recognise situations where developments could potentially be without control, which enables this to be used as a basis for performing indicators or a monitoring system. Furthermore, this combined technique can be used to assess and quantify the performance variabilities that may lead to occupational or environmental accidents, and provide new recommendations about how work processes should function, minimising production losses, incidents and accidents.

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“…This is also true for the papers produced by authors in Denmark. For example [11] states that the seamen entered the cargo hold, which they did not, and [12] states that they died from asphyxia, which is also incorrect.…”

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Fatal Accidents During Marine Transport of Wood Pellets Due to Off-Gassing: Experiences from Denmark

Hedlund¹,

Hilduberg

2017

Biomass Volume Estimation and Valorization for Energy

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The atmosphere in unventilated wood pellet storage confinements, such as the cargo hold of marine vessels transporting pellets in solid bulk, can be severely oxygen deficient and contain deadly concentrations of harmful gasses, of which the most feared is the poisonous and odour-less carbon monoxide. The hazard has been known for over a decade and has been responsible for many accidents. We examine three fatal accidents on marine vessels in or near Danish waters and argue that they share strikingly similar aetiologies, if not repetitive patterns. It is generally recognized that accidents should be thoroughly investigated and lessons learned shared widely in order to minimize the number of times the same lessons have to be learned. The three Danish cases suggest that this learning process is deeply troubled for the solid biomass segment. The International Maritime Organization IMO/SOLAS has recently revised its guidance on entering enclosed spaces aboard ships in response to the ongoing problem of confined space incidents. We argue that the interpretation of the concept of an "enclosed space" is of utmost importance because accidents take place in rooms that are not considered enclosed by the crew.

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Balancing safety with sustainability: assessing the risk of accidents for modern low-carbon energy systems

Cited by 72 publications

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A composite policy tool to measure territorial resilience capacity

A composite policy tool to measure territorial resilience capacity

A Resilience Engineering Approach for Sustainable Safety in Green Construction

Fatal Accidents During Marine Transport of Wood Pellets Due to Off-Gassing: Experiences from Denmark

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