Accident sequence analysis for sites producing and storing explosives

This paper presents a QRA-based approach for assessing and evaluating the safety of installations handling explosive substances. Comprehensive generic lists of immediate causes and initiating events of detonation and deflagration of explosive substances as well as safety measures preventing these ex...

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Published in:Accident analysis and prevention 2009-11, Vol.41 (6), p.1145-1154
Main Authors: Papazoglou, Ioannis A., Aneziris, Olga, Konstandinidou, Myrto, Giakoumatos, Ieronymos
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accident sequences
Accidents, Occupational - prevention & control
Blast Injuries - prevention & control
Explosive Agents
Explosives
Greece
Humans
Initiating events
Master logic diagram (MLD)
Risk Assessment
Safety Management - methods
Safety measures
Security Measures
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Summary:This paper presents a QRA-based approach for assessing and evaluating the safety of installations handling explosive substances. Comprehensive generic lists of immediate causes and initiating events of detonation and deflagration of explosive substances as well as safety measures preventing these explosions are developed. Initiating events and corresponding measures are grouped under the more general categories of explosion due to shock wave, explosion due to mechanical energy, thermal energy, electrical energy, chemical energy, and electromagnetic radiation. Generic accident sequences are developed using Event Trees. This analysis is adapted to plant-specific conditions and potentially additional protective measures are rank-ordered in terms of the induced reduction in the frequency of explosion, by including also uncertainty. This approach has been applied to 14 plants in Greece with very satisfactory results.
ISSN:0001-4575
1879-2057
DOI:10.1016/j.aap.2008.05.012