DANGEROUS INDUSTRIAL INSTALLATION AND CRITICAL MANAGERIAL ELEMENTS: THE INSPECTIONS ON SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
Systematic methods and tools for managing the complexity
Safety & Risk Management Systems (T4-5)
Keywords: Risk analysis, Inspection on safety management system,
Bartolozzi V., Bajardi S., Marceca L., Vasile F., Marino S.
Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione dell’Ambiente - ARPA Sicilia, Direzione Generale, Palermo, Italy
vbartolozzi@arpa.sicilia.it
The proposed work is based on theme of relevant industrial risk management, regarding the development of an integrated inspections systems. The work affords also a critical analysis about the politic of prevention of relevant accidents and the safety management system.
Many hazard events derived from critical managerial elements represent main sources of uncertainty in risk analysis of industrial installation.
The identification of the critical managerial elements could be the evaluation of criticality of the single managerial elements in the specific reality considered, by:
- analysis of operational experience
- outcomes of safety analysis
- outcomes of inspections.
The ART. 18 of the Directive 96/82/CE (Seveso II) requires to the members States the application of a system of inspections (or similar control measures) so to perform a detailed and systematic examination of technical systems, and also of organizational and management systems applied in the industrial installation.
The control systems should to guarantee:
- the adoption of adequate measures, by the manager of industrial installation, in order to prevent relevant incidents;
- the presence of adequate means to control the possible consequences of relevant incidents inside and outside;
- the data and the information contained in the safety reports describe the situation of the plant;
- the information to the population.
The inspection system, besides, must answer to the following dispositions:
- all the industrial plants should be subordinates to a program of inspections. The program of inspections should consider at least one annual inspection visit for all industrial installation plants subject to the presentation of the safety reports;
- after every inspection the inspectors write up formal relation;
- the results of inspection should be estimated in cooperation with the manager of the industrial installation.
Competent authority can require additional information useful to carry out adequate evaluation about important incidents possibility, in order to predispose the external emergency plan and in order to consider dangerous substances in characteristic physical state and in particular storage conditions.
The critical aspects emerged during the inspection activity, regarding the organizational and managerial factors, will be analyzed and highlighted.
Presented Thursday 20, 11:40 to 12:00, in session Safety & Risk Management Systems (T4-5).
