Severity of accidents with hazardous materials

Haastrup, Palle; Brockhoff, Lars

doi:10.1016/0950-4230(90)80010-8

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“…. Moreover, Haastrup and Brockhoff also recognized the most fatal installation type . Due to the high tendency of failure for fixed installations, most fatalities occur in the same installation type.…”

Section: Trends Of Process Industry Accidentsmentioning

confidence: 87%

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Review of Process Industry Accidents Analysis towards Safety System Improvement and Sustainable Process Design

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Risk assessment is the tool for maintaining perfect safety management systems and aiding sustainable process design, with hazard identification as the critical step. This step can be executed by past accidents analysis (PAA) to achieve the mentioned objectives. Despite of available analyses, the recurring of accidents identifies the shortcomings in PAA and requires a detailed examination as reported in this review. The intensified exploration of accident information will strengthen both the safety management system at existing facilities and process designing in terms of sustainability.

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Section: Trends Of Process Industry Accidentsmentioning

confidence: 87%

“…Another analysis for critical installation was presented by Haastrup and Brockhoff , who noticed comparative trends. Although this specific study is dependent on less number of accidents, the trends are very close to that reported by Khan and Abbasi .…”

Section: Trends Of Process Industry Accidentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…More specifically, the analysis of studies on railway accident carried out in different countries [1,4,5], made it possible to highlight how the most frequent cause of an accident is a derailment ( fig 1). Frequency distribution of the causes of railway accidents [7].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…• type of material transported: it has been seen [1] that there is the greatest probability of release when inflammable liquids are transported (class 3 in the RID classification), while gaseous and corrosive materials present a lesser probability (classes 2 and 8).…”

Section: Probability Of Hazardous Materials Release (V R )mentioning

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“…The crucial moments connected to the production of potentially harmful substances have been well known for some time, not only within the factory but also during the transportation phase which is the cause of about 40% of all accidents [1]. This consideration is aggravated by the fact that nowadays the transport of hazardous materials (hazmat) constitutes a large percentage of the total movement of goods (table 1) with a share as high as 20% in the case of road transport.…”

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Risk assessment on railway transportation of hazardous materials

Cafiso¹,

Graziano²,

Blasi³

2006

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, Vol 91

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The transportation of hazardous materials involves a non-negligible quantity of goods carried by both road and rail. Moreover, considering today's greater environmental awareness and the large anthroprical presence, the release of hazardous materials in an accident assumes an ever growing importance. For this reason a risk assessment, considered as the product of the probability of an incident occurring and the gravity of its consequences, is necessary. In the present work, a model to determine risk levels generated by an accident involving the transportation of hazardous materials by rail is presented. The accident risk assessment model takes into account the influence of (1) the main causes of defects (track structure, line characteristics, wagon characteristics, railway operation and traffic system), (2) the probability of a container breaking with the consequent release of dangerous substances during transport and (3) the number of people potentially exposed to the consequences of the accident. Finally, the presentation of a case study implemented using a Geographical Information System made it possible to highlight the potential and effectiveness of the proposed procedure. It is able to supply information and quantitative data which can be used to characterise improvement works and/or transportation procedures and routes in order to minimise the risks connected to the transportation of hazardous materials.

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