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Major Accident Hazards Bureau Overview of activities
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MAHB Thematic Areas - EU Industrial Accident Prevention & Preparedness Policy
Accident Analysis and Lessons Learned
Risk Assessment & Land-Use Planning
Training and Best Practice Exchange
•Promoting quality of reporting and compliance with Seveso Directive including https://eMARS.jrc.it •Strengthening of database analytical functions •Research and dissemination of lessons learned from accidents
•Development and Testing of Risk Assessment Tools and Methodologies (including ARIPAR – area risk assessment tool) •Support to Seveso Land-Use Planning •Promoting Interoperability Tools for Data Exchange and Comparison
•Development of implementation guidance •Support to Seveso Inspections •Training on industrial risk assessment/ management •Making information collected/produced useful/accessible
ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION I N CHEMICAL ACCIDENT PREVENTION
• The European Commission is the European
Union's executive body responsible for
drafting law and executing EU policy
• The JRC provides research-based input to
EU policy & is a reference centre of science
and technology for many policy areas
• The JRC’s Major Accident Hazards Bureau
(MAHB) focuses on industrial accident
prevention
A Map showing the 27 Member
States of the European Union
Why Accident Analysis and Risk Assessment Matter in Chemical Accident Prevention
Accident Analysis and Lessons Learned …
… gives knowledge about WHERE accidents are happening and WHY
Understanding why accidents happen is critical to
prevention
Risk assessment …
… estimates how FREQUENTLY and how SEVERE a potential accident may be
Understanding accident risks is critical to prioritizing
preventive and preparedness actions 4
Seveso II: Who Does What?
Obligation Dutyholder (s)
Art. 6 – Notification Operator
Art. 7 – Major Accident Prevention Policy (MAPP) Operator
Art. 8 – Domino Effects Competent authority
Art. 9 – Safety reports Both
Art. 11 – Emergency Plans Both
Art. 12 – Land Use Planning Competent authority
Art. 13 – Information to the Public Both
Art. 14 – Accident information & follow-up Both
Art. 15 – Accident report to EC Competent authority
Art. 16 – Committee of Competent Authorities EC & Competent authorities
Art. 18 – Inspections Competent authority
Art. 19 – Major accident reporting system EC
Art. 19 – Inventory of Seveso sites EC & Competent authorities
Art. 21 – Harmonised criteria & guidelines EC
1EC = European Commission Requires accident analysis and/ or risk assessment
• Facilitates exchange of
information on accidents occurring in major hazard establishments.
• Contains events on chemical
accidents and near misses reported to JRC-MAHB by EU/EFTA authorities under Seveso since 1982 (mandatory) and OECD since 2000 (voluntary)
• UNECE also invited to perform voluntary reporting
http://emars.jrc.ec.europa.eu
Lessons Learned – Recent & Future activities
• Lessons Learned Bulletin to be produced every semester
• Issue #1 – June 2012 – Lessons learned from accidents involving hydrogen
• Issue #2 – December 2012 – Lessons learned from accidents involving
contractors
• Issue #3 – June 2013 – Lessons learned from accidents with environmental
consequences?
• Lessons learned in-depth studies –
Lessons learned from corrosion-related accidents in refineries (complete 2013)
Lessons learned from emergency response and mitigation (start 2013)*
*If interested in being informed or involved, let JRC-MAHB know.
Databases
accident scenarios using best fit techniques:
analyst uses own consequence models;
area risk for each source: whole risk area
obtained from each independently analysed
area risk for selected sources: obtains as many
risk maps as number of selected sources;
damage curves for a selected accident:
risk sources: data on plants and transports of
hazardous substances, incl. accident scenarios;
substances; population distribution and
vulnerability centres; meteorological data.
Models
Document management module
Any object on the map can be associated with any number and type of
document (e.g. pdf, doc, xls, ppt, img, tif, bmp, jpg, ...)
Currently MAHB focuses on Area Risk Assessment for technological risks THE ARIPAR TOOL
Good Practice Exchange – Examples of Publications
Safety
Management
Systems
Land-
Use
Planning
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Storage
Depots
Oil
Refineries
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