Title
Knowing the ‘state of safety’: Practical approaches for industry and safety authorities
Author
van Kampen, J.
van Guldener, V.
Gort, J.
Contributor
Lexow, J. (editor)
Gadow, P. (editor)
Publication year
2014
Abstract
Chemical companies are looking for ways to gain insight into the level of safety in their company so that additional measures can be taken when necessary and the effectiveness of interventions can be measured. That said, measuring safety, health and the environment is not easy. The difficulty of knowing what will happen continues to be illustrated when serious incidents occur and are analysed such as, the ‘BP Texas city’ incident (Baker et al., 2007);the blowout and explosion of the drilling rig Deep Water Horizon on the Macondo Well (OSC,2011) and recently in the Netherlands the 2011 Chemie-pack chemical fire (Dutch Safety Board, 2012) and the Odfjell incident (Dutch Safety Board, 2013).
Subject
Work and Employment
Workplace
Healthy Living
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TNO identifier
573262
Publisher
BAM Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung, Berlin
Source
Proceedings of the First SAF€RA Symposium on Industrial Safety, Challenges, values and needs, Berlin, Germany, on March 10-11, 172-182
Document type
conference paper