CIMAH regulations

Lees, P.P., and Ang, M.L. (1989) Safety Cases Within the Control of Industrial Major (CIMAH) Regulations 1984, Butterworth, London. 

For UK sites subject to the CIMAH Regulations (Chapter 1), persons within an area defined by the HSE must be given the following information as a minimum ... 

The preparation of safety cases under the CIMAH regulations is covered by Lees and Ang (1989). The company is required to report any major incident to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). 

In the United Kingdom an advisory committee was set up by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to review the problem and recommend procedures for the control of these sites, HSE (1976, 1979). Subsequently, a series of directives and amendments on this subject were issued by the European Economic Commission (EEC), and the EEC directives were implemented in the UK by the publication of the Control of Major Industrial Accident Hazards Regulations, 1984 (the CIMAH regulations). 

Anon. Interpretation of Major Accident to the Environment for the Purposes of the CIMAH Regulations, Department of the Environment, London, 1991, pp. 13. 

The COSHH regulations require assessment and control of toxic substances (see Chapter 7). The NIHHS and CIMAH regulations implement European Community (EC) directives in the UK, controlling sites which pose a particularly serious risk to people or the environment. 

Guidance Note for Chlorine Installations on Technical Aspects of the Strfety Case Report Required by Control of Industrial Major Accident Hazard (CIMAH) Regulations, Appendix VI, ICI Chlor-Chemicals... 

Safety eases entered the UK safety world as a result of the Control of Industrial Major Aeeidents Hazards regulations (CIMAH regulations) in 1984. Safety case principles were further examined and developed by Lord Cullen in his report into the Piper Alpha disaster (Cullen 1990) in which a major accident in an offshore oil facility in the North Sea resulted in 167 deaths. As a result of this report, the approach to offshore safety shifted from compliance to achievement of safety objectives. A safety case would demonstrate through argument and evidence that the required safety objectives would be met. Regulations laid down what must be addressed in a safety case. 

In the UK, the Seveso Directives led to the creation of the Control of Industrial Major Accident Hazards (CIMAH) regulations 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 Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH) in 1999. 

Parallel to these Dutch developments policy was developed with respect to major hazards both within the European Commission and several member states. This resulted in, amongst others, the EU Seveso directive, the German Stbrfall-Verordnung, the UK CIMAH regulations and the ILO 174 Major Hazard convention. ... 

Following the adoption by llie Environment Council of Ministers in Decanber 1996 of the Sevetto II Directive, the CIMAH regulations will be replaced. A consultative document is expected early in 1998 with the final regulations coming into force in February 1999. 

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