Major Accidents to the Environment
A Practical Guide to the Seveso II-Directive and COMAH Regulations
- 1st Edition - December 17, 2007
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Author: Ivan Vince
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 5 0 6 - 8 3 8 9 - 0
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 9 7 6 2 9 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 5 5 6 3 6 - 9
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* This is the only guide to working with and implementing the Seveso II-Directive and COMAH regulations* Written by leading risk management, scientific, legal, and engineering experts, this book provides all of the key elements an organization must manage in order to comply* Accompanied by a comprehensive data handbook that enables managers and health & safety professionals to assess and apply the approaches required in the Directives
Professional health & safety practitioners, plant engineers, chemical engineers, environmental engineers, fire protection, ecologists, environmental and industrial lawyers. Graduate students of risk, H&S, and environmental management and engineering.
ForewordPrefacePart I – Major Accidents and the Environment1. Practical Aspects (Ivan Vince, Bob Sargent, Niall Ramdsen and Tony Moore) Introduction Risk assessment under the COMAH regulations Prevention and mitigation Fire or water? Emergency planning2. Legal Aspects of Major Accidents to the Environment (Daniel Lawrence and Caryl Walter) Introduction Key duties and obligations under the COMAH regime Overview of the types of liabilities that may arise Information disclosure obligations Criminal liability Civil liability – third party claims Some further practical considerations relating to third party claims and enforcement action Transboundary pollution arising from major accidents Conclusion3. Insurance for Major Accidents to the Environment (Valerie Fogleman) Introduction Types of insurance policies Construction of insurance policies Employers’ liability policies Further liability policies Property policies Directors’ and officers’ policies Professional indemnity policies Environment insurance policies Financial security for damage caused by major accidents to the environment Case studies Sandoz, Schweizerhalle, Switzerland Doñana National Park, Spain Bartoline, Beverley, East YorkshirePart II – Appendices1. The Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations 1999. Principles to be taken into account when preparing major accident prevention policy document2. Substances dangerous for the environment3. Major Hazard Incident Data Acquisition Service (MHIDAS)4. Guidance on the interpretation of MATTEs for the purposes of the COMAH Regulations5. Report of the Special Session on Environmental Consequences of Chemical Accidents, Paris, France, 20 November 20006. Environmental risk assessment in support of COMAH and PPC7. Regional inventory of potential accidental risk spots8. Lessons learned from major accidents 1999–20009. Mapping the impacts of recent natural disasters and technological accidents in Europe10. Water reactive materials – incorporation into safety and environmental risk assessments11. Emergency response plan for full-surface tank fires12. Managing firewater and major spillages13. Penalties for conviction under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (HSWA) and relevant statutory provisions (including COMAH)14. Penalties for Conviction under key provisions of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, The Environment Act 1995 and the Water Resources Act 1991Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: December 17, 2007
- No. of pages (eBook): 320
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780750683890
- Paperback ISBN: 9780080976297
- eBook ISBN: 9780080556369
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Ivan Vince
Ivan Vince is a Chartered Chemist and Chartered Chemical Engineer with 40 years' experience in fields related to process safety, beginning with postdoctoral research at Imperial College involving flammability limits. He has taught postgraduate modules on risk assessment at several universities in the UK and abroad, given expert evidence at nine Public Inquiries and participated in the investigation of several major accidents, including Buncefield. Publications include Vince I (ed) (2008) Major accidents to the environment – a practical guide to the Seveso II Directive and the COMAH regulations (Oxford: Elsevier) ISBN: 978-0-7506-8389-0.; Vince I (2013) Explosion at a hazardous waste site caused by contaminated nitric acid, Chemical Engineering Transactions 31, 535.; Vince I (2011) Societal risk in land use planning – the scale of ‘scale aversion’, Hazards XXII, Symposium Series No.156, 408-410 (Rugby: IChemE).
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Risk Consultant, ASK Consultants, Beckenham, United KingdomRead Major Accidents to the Environment on ScienceDirect