Community Documentation Centre on Industrial Risk: Review of environmental accidents and incidents. EUR 14002 EN, 1992
Year: 1992
Type: report
Abstract: The aim of this study was to gather information from literature or database on accidents with environmental consequences.This should help to get a clearer definition of environmental hazard to be used with the Directive 82/501 and its fundamental revision.Accidents from transport, storage and processing hazardous chemicals were covered for the period 1975 to 1990.An accident reporting form had to be developed.The low number of accidents reported is remarkable.Probably the number of real accidents is much higher.This shows the high number of fishkills for unknown reasons, reported by the Rhine Commission, too.An important result is the fact that the number of accidants involving only man is much higher and that the chemicals involved are quite different in case of a normal and an environmental accident.Further study in environmental accidents is necessary especially in the field of long term hazards.A great hazardous potential seems to have fires (and fire extinguishing waters) of storages of chemicals and pesticides.In this field other studies are in progress. G.Mutzbaur Presentation card. Accidents.Accident identification.
Authors: Palle Lindgaard-Jørgensen, Kathlyn Bender
Language: English
Topic: Risk and Safety Analysis
Subfield: Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W313776920