EU-Project ARAMIS (Accidental Risk Assessment Methodology for Industries in the framework of the SEVESO II directive)

International audienceARAMIS overall objective is to build up a new Accidental Risk Assessment Methodology for Industries that combines the strengths of both deterministic and risk-based approaches. This paper intends to summarise the major features of the methodology and to show how the needs of ARAMIS potential users were addressed. In a second part, the objectives of the case studies that are presently under progress will be discussed

Biogas : opportunities to improve safety and safety regulation

The production of biogas is positioned as energy which can not only generate a source of renewable energy but also which recycles waste. In the context of sustainable development, the place of biogas is therefore essential. Several questions about safety issues, the harmonization of the regulations and the need to develop standards are discussed in this paper, based on the results of a workshop on biogas safety and regulation organized in November 2010 and the activities of the European Working Group on Biogas Safety and Regulation created after the workshop. The risks corresponding to the biogas production and use have been framed using iNTeg-Risk method and tools. Several defi cits for risk management have been identifi ed and a strategy to improve risk management proposed by the working group is presented at the end of the paper

Criteria for risk decision-making process related to hazardous installation : a french experience

Chemical process industry gathers critical infrastructures since chemical plants represent for the society both an instrument to generate activity and benefits (production of goods, employment, services ... ), and an instrument that can harm people and the environment. This paper describes the risk assessment approach led in France for licensing the hazardous installation, in particular those covered by the Seveso II directive and the implication for land-use planning. The first part explains why the French risk assessment procedure is based on the quantitative evaluation of major accident scenarios with explicit criteria, and only on qualitative analysis of the risk reduction measures without explicit criteria. The second part shows some on-going evolutions in the formal definition of criteria to make the analysis of the safety barriers

ARAMIS Project : development of an integrated Accidental Risk Assessment Methology for IndustrieS in the framework of SEVESO II directive

International audienceThe ESREL conference welcomes a special session on ARAMIS European project. This session represents halfway workshop of the project, which started in January 2002. The aim is to disseminate first results and collect comments from the public. This article is one of the five papers constituting the session and it presents the overall frame of ARAMIS project. ARAMIS objective is to build up a new integrated risk assessment method that will be used as a supportive tool to speed up the harmonized implementation of SEVESO II Directive

Risk assessment in decision making related to land-use planning (LUP) as required by the Seveso II directive

The 1999 annual report from the European Environment Agency indicated that in spite of measures on major industrial accidents in force since 1984, the trend in accidents shows that many of the often seemingly trivial 'lessons learned' from accidents have not yet been sufficiently evaluated and implemented in industry's practices and standards. It was confirmed by the recent accidents (Enschede in 2000, Toulouse in 2001) that have shown that disasters continue to occur throughout the EU despite of the efforts to control major accident hazards with Seveso I and Seveso II directives. Moreover, a recent communication from the Commission (European Commission, 2002) indicates that the frequency of major accidents is estimated at about 3.10~3 per year if we consider the number of accidents reported in the accident database of the European Commission MARS (Major Accident Reporting System) versus the number of hazardous installations throughout the European Union. So, controlling major accident hazards by reducing the risk on-site is not sufficient to promote a sustainable development for both industry and urban areas in the next decades. It is necessary to organise the settlement of industrial and urban areas with land-use planning (LUP). This paper presents an approach to implement LUP in the context of the Seveso II directive1 . In the first part, the requirements of the directive regarding LUP are given, and the use of LUP in a risk management policy is analysed. Then, in the second part, the authors describe the current situation in France, where LUP is applied for more than 10 years with an approach based on the evaluation of the consequences of major accident scenarios. In the third part, the authors share their thoughts to improve the LUP procedure by distinguishing a risk assessment phase and a negotiation phase involving the stakeholders

European technology platform on industrial safety (ETPIS), a vision to gain safety for a sustainable industry growth

International audienceThe paper that will be presented is an extract of the Strategic Research Agenda of the European Technology Platform Industrial Safety (ETPIS). It is a result of a collective work made by researchers from organisations that consider industrial safety as a strategic issue for the sustainable growth of the European Industry. The list of the main organisations involved in the ETPIS, that participate in the preparation and endorse this text is available at www.industrialsafety-tp.org. The paper will describe the rationale, the scope and the organisation of the initiative. It will insist on the structuration and the organisation of a Strategic Research Agenda prepared by more than 150 organisations concerned by industrial safety. In particular, the analysis of the broader situation, regarding industry and safety interactions and issues, led the ETPIS members to propose a RTD strategy that focuses on 6 major challenges. These have been identified wherever there is a clear need to develop basic knowledge in safety sciences. - Developing new risk assessment and risk management methods addressing the complexity of industrial systems - Improving methods and technologies to reduce risks at work and to prevent major accidents - Understanding the impact of human and organisational factors in risk control - Improving knowledge transfer to industry and in particular SMEs, education and training activities - Understanding emergent risks and cross-cutting risk & safety issues - Structural safety. Some industrial stakes are not concerning only one industrial sector, and should also take the knowledge and expertise from several Focus Group. To enable the mobilisation of the critical mass and attract the interested sectors, the TP has decided to create the concept of research HUB.A research HUB is a group of interest aiming at exchanging knowledge and launching projects after having defined a specific research agenda. The research HUB will take benefice from the Focus Groups and mobilise the interested industries. The first research HUB of the TP on Industrial Safety is the NANO-SAFETY HUB addressing the safety issue of nano-technologies and nano-materials

Les plates-formes technologiques ETPIS & FTPIS : une initiative pour défragmenter la recherche en sécurité

National audienceL'analyse des documents et des rapports publiés à la suite de la catastrophe AZF (Toulouse, Septembre 2001) montre à quel point il est nécessaire de poursuivre l'investissement en recherche pour produire de nouvelles connaissances dans plusieurs domaines : les propriétés des substances et les phénomènes dangereux (chimie, physique, mécanique), la prise en compte des organisations et du rôle des hommes dans la prévention des risques, les processus de la gouvernance des risques, notamment du fait de l'évolution vers une gestion plus participative des risques... À côté de ces connaissances, que l'on peut qualifier de théoriques ou méthodologiques, le progrès dans le domaine des capteurs, du traitement des données et des technologies de l'information, l'intensification des procédés et la miniaturisation des équipements industriels, sous-tend des innovations technologiques qui devraient avoir un impact significatif sur l'amélioration de la sécurité des usines de demain. La volonté de mener des recherches pour accroître les connaissances et innover sur le plan technologique ne suffit pas. Les chercheurs ont besoin que les gestionnaires et décideurs publics qui définissent les priorités dans l'investissement de recherche au niveau national ou européen placent le thème de la sécurité industrielle comme l'une de leurs priorités. Aujourd'hui, les priorités de recherche communautaires et nationales sont celles qui peuvent avoir un impact sur l'innovation, la compétitivité de l'industrie et in fine sur l'emploi. Aussi, il apparait crucial de montrer les enjeux économiques de la sécurité industrielle pour leur donner la légitimité de la recherche en tant que tel, et éviter que la sécurité industrielle ne soit qu'une "fioriture" destinée à agrémenter l'innovation technologique. Si l'industrie, dans toute sa diversité, veut réellement faire des progrès en matière de sécurité, sous la pression sociétale, il faut concentrer la recherche sur quelques défis scientifiques, d'ordre méthodologique, technologique, organisationnel et social. Cette communication décrit dans un premier temps le nouvel instrument de pilotage de la recherche inventé par la Commission Européenne, les Plates-formes Technologiques. Puis, il retrace l'historique de la création de la plateforme technologique européenne dans le domaine de la sécurité industrielle, en expliquant les motivations qui ont conduit à cette initiative et en détaillant les objectifs généraux qui sont poursuivis. Enfin, la déclinaison française de cette plate-forme européenne est présentée en insistant sur l'organisation de la communauté scientifique concernée par la sécurité industrielle et en montrant comment la dynamique engagée au niveau national laisse augurer des résultats plus rapides grâce à une meilleure coordination des actions de recherche

ARAMIS project : achievement of the integrated methodology and discussion about its usability from the case studies carried out on real test Seveso II sites

International audienceARAMIS overall objective is to build up a new Accidental Risk Assessment Methodology for Industries that combines the strengths of both deterministic and risk-based approaches. This paper intends to summarise the major features of the methodology and to show how the needs of ARAMIS potential users were addressed. In a second part, the objectives of the case studies that are presently under progress will be discussed

ARAMIS : an integrated risk assessment methodology for SEVESO plants

International audienceThis paper intends to give a very general description of the ARAMIS Methodology and to show how it answers the needs of various stakeholders concerned by the safety of industrial plants. ARAMIS is divided into six major steps, which will be described shortly in this paper. The potential end users of ARAMIS are mainly the industry, the competent authorities and the local authorities. If all of them have an interest in the same risk management process, their needs are slightly different. Their expectations are detailed and the way ARAMIS brings an answer is explained in this paper

Evolution in industrial risk management in France. The agenda concerning LUP, risks and stakeholder perspective on a national level

International audienceThis paper will first describe the evolutions of the concepts related to risk management for hazardous installations in France, in particular in the aspects related to the link between risk assessment and land-use planning. Then, the paper will present in details the main novelties introduced by the law of 30th July 2003, and the methods and tools that have been developed to enable its implementation. The results related to the cases studies carried in 2004 on several industrial sites will be presented and analyzed