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Assessment of Industrial Risks in the Rijnmond Area

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Risk Analysis of Six Potentially Hazardous Industrial Objects in the Rijnmond Area, a Pilot Study

Abstract

A detailed study has been made of the hazards to employees and to local population in the vicinity of six selected installations in the Rijnmond area.

This was undertaken with the primary objective of evaluating risk assessment techniques in a real application, and in the course of the work a valuable debate has taken place between the various interested parties on the subject of calculation methods.

The methods selected for use were applied in a comprehensive and detailed way to a large number of failure cases associated with each study object.

Systematic methods were used for identifying failure cases, and a very large number of possible outcomes of each case was considered, taking into account weather frequencies, population and ignition source distributions, as well as the location of employees.

The overall conclusions about calculation methods are given in Section 1.1. below, while in Section 1.2. some areas for future development are identified and briefly discussed.

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