European Information Processing Centre

The Environment Information Centre (EIC) has two main tasks. It collects, processes, issues and stores environmental data. EIC transfers data and information to several Baltic, Nordic and European partners. It acts as the counterpart to the European Environmental Agency (EEA)... 

The inverted search process, in conjunction with modern developments in computing, lends itself to on-line information retrieval. The librarian-information officer, or even the scientist himself, sits at a typewriter terminal connected, over telephone lines, to the computer. He explores the dictionary, establishes the search formulation, and then the computer searches for the references and prints them out before his eyes. In the USA this service is known as MEDLINE and is the main means of access to the MEDLARS data base. Various experimental services of this kind are in operation at European MEDLARS centres, but the relatively higher cost of telephone communication here makes it more expensive than batch searching. 

In 2011, the European Process Safety Centre invited its members to share details on leading indicators that each has introduced for process safety. Seven companies provided this information. A general finding was that no company uses more than six indicators, and one company uses a single indicator as suggested by Table 8.4. The average from this survey was about three (3). 

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