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Up to this Chapter, we have described the roles and responsibilities of key constituents within expertise process when dealing with risk SSEH risk. These key actors and concepts include:
Only […] has one species—man—acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.
—Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, (1907–1964 A.D.)
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Named after the Italian municipality of about 22,200 inhabitants located in the province of Monza and Brianza in the Lombardy region in northwest Italy.
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Factory located in the nearby town of Meda.
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Nuclear power plant located on a 3.3 km2 island on the Susquehanna River, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (USA).
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In French, there will be a distinction in the use of the vocabulary “Safety”: sûreté will be used for the nuclear sector and sécurité for the chemical and petrochemical industry.
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Dow Chemical presently.
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Cindyniques, Greek root meaning danger or hazard. Danger sciences was started with an inter-industry symposium in 1987 by Georges Yves Kervern.
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Five-party governance is a principle that means bringing stakeholders such as NGOs and local residents, workers’ representatives, elected representatives, industrialists and the administration around the discussion table.
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The theory of capture was popularized by Ralph Nader who highlighted the possible deviances induced by a too strong proximity between the regulator and the regulated. For more information see Ayres I. and Braithwaite J. (1992). Responsive Regulation: Transcending the Deregulation Debate, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
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National Institute of Industrial Environment and Risks.
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Centre for studies on road networks, transportation, urban planning and public construction.
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See Tversky and Kahneman (1992).
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The Administration, mainly represented by its Controlling Authority the DREAL (DRIRE), must make sure that the industrial plant known as “SEVESO high threshold” perform a SR that correspond to what is regulatory fixed. A third expertise done by an engineering and design department is performed to verify the validity and the quality of the SR according to the regulatory criteria.
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Bureau d’Analyse des Risques et Pollutions Industrielles.
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The period of reference (1 year, 10 years, 100 years…) where similar accidents occurred of can potentially occurred.
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The level of decision where both the organizational and technical barriers are implemented (e.g. at the level of an installation, at the level of all installations in a plant, in all the plants, at a corporate level…).
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The geographical scale of observation of the occurrence of the scenario of accident (at a regional level, at a national level, at a European level…
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Merad, M., Trump, B.D. (2020). Critical Challenges and Difficulties in Safety, Security, Environment and Health: Why Are We So Bad at Managing SSEH Problems?. In: Expertise Under Scrutiny. Risk, Systems and Decisions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20532-4_4
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