Industrial accidents Flixborough disaster

Turning to the hazards and the impact of industrial processes. Many disasters such as Flixborough, Seveso and Bhopal (see section 1.6) have ably illustrated the environmental impact of human errors and the need for rigorous safety controls. The capacities and productivity of chemical plants are driven upwards as are the magnitudes of losses in terms of economic cost and fatalities. Analysis of the major causes of accidents in the U.S. chemical industry in the 1978-1980 period highlighted that ... 

Major Accidents like Flixborough (UK), 1974 Seveso (IT), 1976 Bhopal (India), 1984 Basel Mexico 1986 made people think of brining the legislature to prevent/ reduce accident in process Industries dealing with hazardous material. TUI now Seveso II Directive 96 2/EC is in effect The directive was named after Seveso disaster -an industrial accident that occurred around on July 10,1976, in a small chemical manufacturing plant near Milan in Italy. 

Ever since the inception of the petroleum industry the level of fires, explosions and environmental pollution that have precipitated from it, has generally paralleled its growth. As the industry has grown so has the magnitude of its accidental events. Relatively recent events such as the Flixborough incident (1974), Occidental s Piper Alpha disaster (1988), and Exxon s Valdez oil spill (1989) have all amply demonstrated the extreme financial impact these accidents can produce. 

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