Major Accident Reporting System

Drogaris, G. 1993. Major Accident Reporting System Lessons Learned from Accidents Notified. Elesevier Science Publishers,B.V., Amsterdam. 

Major Accident Reporting System (MARS) European Communities Major Accident Hazard Bureau (MAHB) Reviewed only... 

Database, Rugby, Institution of Chemical Engineers MARS(Major Accident Reporting System) Database... 

The Major Accident Reporting System (MARS) is a distributed information network, consisting of 15 local databases on a MS-Windows platform in each Member State of the European Union and a central UNIX-based analysis system at the European Commission s Joint Research Centre in Ispra (MAHB) that allows complex text retrieval and pattern analysis. 

Member States have the obligation to report major accidents to the Commission. In order to fulfill its information obligations toward the Member States, the European Commission has created the Major Accident Reporting System (MARS) database to store and retrieve accident information reported by the Member States, and a Community Documentation Centre on Industrial Risks (CDCIR) was established to collect, classify, and review materials relevant to industrial risks and safety. 

The Seveso Directive is administered by the European Union through the Major Accident Hazards Bureau services (MAHB) located within the Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy. The Bureau also oversees the European Community s Documentation Centre Industrial Risk (CDCIR) and manages the Major Accident Reporting System (MARS) with the aim to create a repository of information and facilitate the exchange between the members of the European Community. MARS follows the requirements of the Seveso II directive and collects information about major chemical incidents as well as the response and results. Member States are required to report the events by using standardized forms. 

MARS 2008. Major Accident Reporting System, Institute of the Protection and Security of the Citizen, Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Ispra (VA), Italy... 

Kirchsteiger, C. 1997. The Functioning of the Major Accident Reporting System in the European Union Seminar on Lessons Learned from Accidents, Linz, Austria, October. 

EMARS (European Major Accident Reporting System), Major Accident Hazards Bureau, European Commission https //emars.jrc.ec.europa.eu/id=4, accessed... 

Table 5.11 summarizes the major accidents reported to the US Department of Transportation by the operators for the 6-year period between 1994 and 1999. The data show that for transmission pipeline systems, inclusive of hazardous liquid and natural gas, approximately 25% of all reported accidents were because of corrosion (see Table 5.10). Of the hazardous liquid pipeline accidents caused by corrosion, 65% were because of external corrosion and 34% were because of internal corrosion.

European Major Accidental Reporting System (EMARS) is selected to recover the historical data of accidents for 30 years from 1983 to 2013. The EMARS was established by the EU s Seveso Directive 82/501/EEC in 1982. The purpose of this reporting system is to facilitate the exchange of lessons learned from accidents and near misses involving dangerous substances in order to improve chemical accident prevention and mitigation of potential consequences (EMARS). At the moment, only accidents are considered in this analysis with a possibility to add near misses in future. 

There are probably numerous minor Incidents for every major accident reported. These may have cost impacts or cause some small environmental Impact, but are too minor to be noted in the published incident iists, even though the more likely causes of minor equipment failures or small releases will be known to those familiar with plant operations and maintenance. Nevertheless, attention must be paid to the potential for small releases since these may be partial pathways to major accidents. Particularly with a highly flammable pressurized material, ignited small releases may cause larger failures if they heat other system components. Thus, integrity of a VCM system needs to be at a high level. 

Many data collection systems place the primary emphasis on the technical causes of accidents. There is usually a very detailed description of the chemical process in which the accident occurred, together with an in-depth analysis of the technical failures that are seen as the major causes. The human or system failures that may have contributed to the accident are usually treated in a cursory manner. Technically oriented reporting systems are very common in the CPI, where engineers who may be unfamiliar with human factors princi-... 

Papadakis, G.A. and Amendola, A. (eds) (1997) Guidance on the Preparation of the Safety Report to Meet the Requirements of Council Directive 96/82/EC (Seveso II), EUR 17690. European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Systems, Informatics and Safety, Major Accident Hazards Bureau, Ispra for other aspects of guidance, see Mitchison, N. 

Full details of this accident can be found in several major reports. This brief review is focused on the utility hose and the one-minute modification aspects of the accident. Reportedly the trouble started when one of the parallel paths used to treat the secondary water system started plugging. When this resin polisher system, which is designed to remove trace impurities, started to plug, an operator decided to clear the blockage with instrument air. [9]... 

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