Share of Safety-relevant Industrial Processes

Approaching the subject from a practical point of view, how many plants actually are performing safety-relevant chemical processes. In an older study, the share of safety-relevant plants in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate are listed [173]. It is assumed here that the trend given there still is valid. 

From 1980 to 1993, the number of safety-relevant plants increased from 65 to 772 [173]. They constituted slightly more than a quarter of all plants (3472) at that time. Concerning big chemical plants, selected as falling into the category of a special law [173], 230 out of 346 plants were safety-relevant 163 of them, in addition, had special obligations. 

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