Seveso II Directive

In the United Kingdom this is covered by the Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations 1999 (COMAH), set up by the HSE (Health and Safety Executive) to implement the Seveso II directive of the EC (European Union) see www.hse.gov.uk. The COMAH regulations supersede the previous CIMAH (1984) regulations, set up under Seveso I. 

Most countries also have regulations analogous to the U.S. regulations. For example, the European Union issued the "Seveso II Directive in 1996 (replacing the original 1982 directive) which requires all member states to implement regulations for the control of major accident hazards. Also, in addition to the U.S. government requirements,... 

BRZO Besluit Risico Zware Ongevallen (Dutch) Dutch Seveso II directive... 

In addition to these selection criteria, the limitations of the author s contacts and the willingness of companies to participate, narrowed the search for a suitable case down to a small Dutch company (< 30 people). This company produces in batches, falls under the Dutch Seveso-II directive (BRZO, 1999) and authorized access to the relevant data. The selected company had experienced some serious accidents recently, in spite of using many technical safety systems. Thus the management was aware of the necessity to enhance both safety and the reliability of the operational process. 

The selection criteria for the case studies are taken from Chapter 5, i.e. presence of hazardous substances, batch industry, large company, located in The Netherlands. The selection criteria narrowed the search for suitable cases down to large Dutch companies in the batch industry falling under the Dutch Seveso-II directive (BRZO, 1999). To increase the generalizability to Dutch chemical companies in the batch industry, from the around 80 selected companies falling under the previous selection criteria, different companies and different product types were selected. 

Seveso II directive [96/082/EEC], 1996. Council Directive of December 9, 1996 on the control of major accident hazards involving dangerous substances, The council of the European union. 

The regulatory environment is changing in Victoria with introduction from March 2000 of the Major Hazard Facilities Regulations, based on the Seveso II Directives. These are expected to flow on to the other states considered in this chapter. The key requirement of these regulations is the preparation of a Safety Case, which must demonstrate, among other requirements, that the risk from the new plant has been reduced to as low as is reasonably practicable - ALARP . The plants will incorporate a number of design features intended to reduce the risk from the facilities and demonstrate compliance with this criterion. 

In Europe, the Seveso II Directive [96/082/EEC] applies to facilities handling threshold quantities or greater of listed "dangerous substances," including a number of chemicals classified as reactive. Prevention program... 

The information in this publication is applicable to many industrial facilities not covered by process safety regulations such as the OSHA PSM Standard and the Seveso II Directive. Many reactive chemicals are not listed as regulated materials, and chemical reactivity hazards include uncontrolled chemical reactions between materials not considered as highly hazardous, or under conditions not typically encountered in storage and shipping. 

The EPA RMP regulation and the European Community s Seveso II directive both exempt covered processes from some regulatory provisions, if the facility documents the absence of catastrophic damage from process accidents under reasonable worst case conditions. The State of New Jersey is also considering similar action in its proposed revisions of the Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act (TCPA) regulations. 

Self-accelerating decomposition temperature (SADT), screening methods, 56 Self-reactive materials chemical reactivity hazard, 1,2 screening methods, 54-58 Seveso, Italy incident, 4 Seveso II Directive, 5-6,27 Shelf life... 

The Seveso II Directive guidance and fine-tuning. J. Hazard. Mater.,... 

Since the European Seveso II Directive demands that industry discover what it may inadvertently produce and then emit when accidents happen, studies are starting on pyrolysis fumes, in an attempt to link these to functional groups [9]. The same group is also studying off-gases from other runaway reactions. 

Vol. 6. Risk Assessment and Management in the Context of the Seveso II Directive (C. Kirchsteiger, Editor and M. Christou and G. Papadakis, Co-editors)... 

All operators of establishments coming under the scope of the Seveso II Directive need to send a notification to the competent authority, and need to... 

Seveso Disaster, and the Seveso and Seveso II Directives, Pages 1-4, Pertti J. Hakkinen SummaryPlus Full Text + Links PDF (65 K)... 

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. 

Europa Environmental, On the Control of Major Accident Hazards, Seveso II Directive, 96/82/ EC, Jan. 1997. 

LOPA can also be used to develop the quantified specifications for Safety Instrumented Levels (SILs), for SISs—a necessary step in complying with ANSI requirements). The technique is also effective at identifying safeguards— including those to do with human performance. From a regulatory point of view LOPA can provide a basis for specification of Independent Protection Layers (IPLs) and can help address the requirements of standards such as OSHA s 29 CFR 1910.119 and the Seveso II directives. 

Nowadays, the great emphasis is put on safety prevention in different fields of human activities. One of these fields is the preparedness for major accidents and/or prevention of them, including elaboration of safety documentation for facilities, in which dangerous substances are hold in amounts exceeding limits mentioned in Annex I of the Council Directive 96/82/ES of 9 December 1996, on the control of major accident hazards involving dangerous substances, so-called SEVESO II Directive or COMAH . This Directive is implemented in the Czech legislation as the Act No. 59/2006 CoU., with later amendments (hereinafter called law ) that was established for prevention or minimalization of accident effects on hiunan health, property and environment. 

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