Decision Support Systems for Preventing Domino Effects

Information, decision and planning support for industrial risk management in India

“…Another critical element of an EDDS that support industrial emergency management decisions would be its ability to predict domino effects. Domino effects in an industrial area are those in which a primary accident becomes the initiating event for other secondary accidents, in the process increasing the severity of consequences of the original accident (Abdolhamidzadeh, 2013;Cozzani, Antonioni, et al, 2006;Reniers et al, 2013). Such domino effects in chemical industries can also be triggered by natural hazards, which are then termed as NATECH incidents (Cozzani et al, 2013).…”