The Assessment of Population Safety in the Vicinity of Unclassified Risk Sources

Abstract:

Act on the Prevention of Major Industrial Accidents defines the threshold quantities of hazardous substances in companies. Businesses that have exceeded their limits assess risks under this act. For smaller establishments where dangerous substances are present in quantities subliminal, risk assessment in terms of the occurrence and effects of the accident is not required. Nevertheless, these objects can represent a source of danger of a major accident, especially given its location, nature of the threat and synergy due to several adverse circumstances. Aim of this paper is to design a model for assessing the degree of threat or safety margin so unclassified sources of risks, for example refrigeration equipment, winter stadium, gas reservoirs and to apply the algorithm for the risk assessment of such objects. Unclassified sources of risk may also be a threat to critical transport infrastructure or its elements. The result is a consistent multi-step methodological approach to the assessment of risk sources and validation of selected operations involving dangerous substances, not reaching the threshold of this Act.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 1001)
• Pages: 498-503
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1001.498
• Online since: August 2014
• Authors: Katarína Mäkká*, Eva Sventeková
• Keywords: Algorithm of Risk Assesement, Dangerous Substances, Major Accident Prevention, Safety of Inhabitants, Unclassified Risk Source

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