Major Industrial Accidents Council

For safety risks, the criteria for individual safety risk varies among jurisdictions, ranging from 10 to 10 for the lower level and from 10" to 10" for the upper level (again for involuntary exposure), expressed in terms of chance of fatality of an exposed individual over a year. The Canadian guidelines developed by the Major Industrial Accidents Council of Canada are shown in Fig. 10.3 as an example of how these can be used for land use planning (MIACC, 1994). 

Some of the material in this section was developed while the author was the Chair of the Risk Assessment Expert Committee of the Major Industrial Accidents Council of Canada... 

Major Industrial Accidents Council of Canada (MIACC). 1994. Hazardous Substances Risk Assessment A MiniGuide for Municipalities and Industry. 

European Council Directive on "Major Accidents of Certain Industrial Activities," ("Seveso Directive"), 82/501/EEC, June 4,1982, as amended 87/216/EEC, March 19,1987, European Union, Brussels, Belgium. 

In 1982, the European Union s Council Directive 82/501/EEC on the major-accident hazards of certain industrial activities, also known as the Seveso Directive, was adopted. The Directive was mostly designed to promote information flow and created the requirement that each Member State (i.e., each country belonging to the European Union) appoint a Competent Authority to oversee safety issues. The Seveso Directive was amended twice, following major accidents at the Union Carbide chemical factory in Bhopal, India in 1984 (a leak of methyl isocyanate caused thousands of deaths), and at the Sandoz chemical warehouse in Basel, Switzerland in 1986 (fire-fighting water contaminated with mercury, organophosphate pesticides and other chemicals caused massive pollution of the Rhine River and the death of hundreds of thousands of fish). Both amendments, broadened the scope of the Directive, in particular to include the storage of dangerous substances. 

Official Journal of the European Communities Council Directive of 24 June 1982 (the Seveso Directive) on the Major-Accident Hazards of Certain Industrial Activities, Official Journal of the European Communities, Berlin. 1989. 

CEC, (1982) Council Directive 82/501/EC on the major-accident hazards of certain industrial activities OJNo L 230 of 5 August 1982. 

EC Council Directive of 8 July 1982 on the major accident hazards of certain industrial activities (82/501/EEC), OffJ.Eur. Comm., No. L230 of 05-08-82. London Guidelines for the Exchange of Information on Chemicals in International Trade , 1987, United Nations Environment Programme. 

SI 1984/1902 implementing the so-called Seveso Directive (Council directive 82/501/EEC of 24 June 1982 on the major-accident hazards of certain industrial activities) and now replaced by the Control of Major Accident Hazard (COMAH) Regulations 1999 (SI 1999/743) which in turn implement the Seveso 11 Directive (Council Directive 96/82/EC of 9 December 1996 on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances, as amended by Directive 2003/105/EC). 

European Commission, Directive No. 82/501/EEC, Council Directive on Major Accident Hazards of Certain Industrial Activities, European (Commission, Luxembourg (1982)... 

The present work has been carried out as part of the research project Took and guidelines for overall barrier management and reduction of major accident risk in the petroleum industry , a project that has been sponsored by the Research Council of Norway and the PDS participants (www.sintef no/pds). 

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