How powerful is ARAMIS methodology in solving land-use issues associated with industry based environmental and health risks?

Analysis of spatial planning documents and strategic environmental assessment reports with regard to hazards of major industrial accidents: a case study involving six Polish cities

“…Christou and Matarelli (2000) and Grønberg (2000) have described the results of the LUPACS (Land Use Planning and Chemical Sites) project aiming at the consolidation, implementation and validation of the methodology developed in LSIRIS (Laboratory of Systems and Industrial Safety) (Papazoglou et al 1998;Papazoglou et al 2000a;Papazoglou et al 2000b) for LUP around major hazard facilities. Salvi and Debray (2006) have summed up general features of another methodology of risk assessment for industries developed within the ARAMIS (Accidental Risk Assessment Methodology for Industries in the framework of Seveso II directive) project, and their co-workers have characterized its details (Kirchsteiger 2002;Beerens et al 2006;de Dianous and Fiévez 2006;Gowland 2006;Tixier et al 2006) and its application (Kontič et al 2006). Egidi et al (1995) and Spandoni et al (2000) have analysed the major accident risks connected with industrial and transportation activities in the Ravenna Area within the ARIPAR (Analisi e controllo dei Rischi Industriali e Portuali dell'Area di Ravenna -Analysis and control of the Industrial and Harbour Risk in the Ravenna Area) project.…”

Introduction of threat analysis into the land-use planning process

“…Proper distances should be assured by means of land-use planning (LUP): consideration of risk assessment results in land-use planning for the purpose of limiting the consequences of accidents is one of the requirements of the Seveso II Directive [5,6]. EU member states are searching for their own best ways of achieving compliance with this specific requirement [4,[7][8][9][10][11][12][13], but the process seems to be slower than expected at the time of adopting the Directive.…”

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

“…QRA oriented methods which are capable of providing quantifiable measures of risk are considered to be an effective technique to guide longer term risk reduction measures like zoning of land use, provided a systematic methodology for risk assessment has been adopted, resulting in outcomes that are consistent, verifiable and comparable (Christou et al, 2011). Experience in countries practicing QRA based risk assessment has shown that number of factors like selection of reference accident scenarios for a particular hazard source, choice of probabilities of occurring event, endpoints to a particular hazard can lead to a large variation in the results of a QRA (Delvosalle et al, 2006;Fabbri et al, 2009;Kontić et al, 2006;Tugnoli et al, 2013). To respond to this challenge, countries like the Netherlands, UK and USA have laid down detailed guidance for undertaking facility level risk assessments.…”