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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

Petroleu

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Storage

Depots

Oil

Refineries

Complian

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industry

sectors

Lower Tier

Sites

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