Control of Major Accident Hazards

SI 1999/981 Planning (Control of Major Accident Hazards) Regulations... 

EC Directive on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances... 

SI 2000/179 European Communities - Town and Country Planning - The Planning (Control of Major - Accident Hazards)(Scotland) Regulations 2000... 

A guide to the Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations 1999 - COM AH-guidance on Regulations Health and safety at quaiTies... 

For new sites with 50 tons or more of LPG the Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations 1984 apply. For sites which will have 300 tons or more (shortly to be reduced to 200 tons or more) these Regulations impose additional duties on site operators which include the prior submission of a safety report . This report has to set out the potential hazards of the plant and the means by which the risks are reduced to an acceptable level. The LPGITA has produced a Guide to the Writing of LPG Safety Reports which supplements the general guidance in the HSE booklet HS(R)21. 

Confined vapour cloud explosion, 13, 214, 215 Construction materials, 59, 60 Contact dermatitis, See Dermatitis Containment, 135, 165, 220, 221 Control of Asbestos at Work Regulations, 148, 594 Control of Major Accident Hazard Regulations 1999, 5, 424, 594... 

In the United Kingdom this is covered by the Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations 1999 (COMAH), set up by the HSE (Health and Safety Executive) to implement the Seveso II directive of the EC (European Union) see www.hse.gov.uk. The COMAH regulations supersede the previous CIMAH (1984) regulations, set up under Seveso I. 

EEC, On the Control of Major-Accident Hazards Involving Dangerous Substances, Directive 96/82/EC, Brussels, 1996. 

Most countries also have regulations analogous to the U.S. regulations. For example, the European Union issued the "Seveso II Directive in 1996 (replacing the original 1982 directive) which requires all member states to implement regulations for the control of major accident hazards. Also, in addition to the U.S. government requirements,... 

Seveso II directive [96/082/EEC], 1996. Council Directive of December 9, 1996 on the control of major accident hazards involving dangerous substances, The council of the European union. 

A written major-accident prevention policy has been established that includes the operator s overall aims and principles of action with respect to the control of major-accident hazards. 

The concept of a safety case comes from the requirements of the European Union/European Community (EU/EC) Seveso Directive (82/501/EC) and, in particular, regulations that the United Kingdom and other member states used to implement that directive. United Kingdom regulations (Control of Industrial Major Accident Hazards [CIMAH], 1984 replaced by Control of Major Accident Hazards Involving Dangerous Substances [COMAH] in 1999) require that major hazardous facilities produce a safety report or safety case.64 The requirement for a safety case is initiated by a list of chemicals and a class of flammables. Like the hazard analysis approach (Section 8.1.2), experts identify the reactive hazards of the process if analysis shows that the proposed process is safe, it may be excluded from additional regulatory requirements. 

Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations, SI 1999/743. The Stationery Office ISBN 0110 821 920, 1999. 

CAPP CCPS CFR COMAH CSB Chemical Accident Prevention Program Center for Chemical Process Safety Code of Federal Regulations Control of Major Accident Hazards (U.K. HSE Regulation) U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board... 

Several countries have regulations detailing requirements for process safety. Countries in Europe have adopted regulations in response to the European Union s Seveso Directives. The Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH) regulation in the United Kingdom is one example. Brazil and Hong Kong have also... 

Joint UK Competent Authority for Control of Major Accident Hazard... 

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