Accident management United Kingdom

Helene Cecilie Blakstad in her contribution (Chapter 9) to this volume lists more specific indicators for risk evaluation related to accident prevention and crisis management. She compares the British and Norwegian safety indicators and comes to the conclusion that a multiple indicator set is preferable over a single index solution. This applies to both Norway and the United Kingdom. The United States, in contrast, has been less attentive to indicators of accident prevention and more focused on risk characterization. 

Reason, J., 1997. Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents. Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, United Kingdom. 

In the United Kingdom, the Seveso Directives led to the creation of the CIMAH (Control of Industrial Major Accident Hazards) regtJations in 1984. These regulations required manufacturers of hazardous chemicals to create a safety report—in effect a safety case. They also had to show how the hazards were being effectively managed. (CIMAH was replaced by COMAH—Control of Major Accident Hazards—in 1999 )... 

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