Safety Evaluation and Legal Aspects

Chapters 3 to 6 describe the development and evaluation of production processes and the execution of projects from the chemist s viewpoint. The various aspects chemical, engineering, materials science, legal, economic, safety, etc. that must be taken into account prior to and during the planning, erection, and startup of a chemical plant are treated. 

The interest evaluation between benefits and hazards in the narrower sense should be distinguished from the guarantee obligation of the state which is fulfilled by rules of law. This means that the responsibility of the state with respect to protection of important legal rights, such as life and health, is comprehensive and indivisible. There are additional aspects, for example, humaneness in the work place. Interest evaluation would not be sufficiently precise to outline the function of rules of law since the need for the three-pronged safety legislation, the conjunction of liability, sanction, and hazard protection, would not be stressed with sufficient clarity. 

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