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Sun, Hao (author), Wang, Haiqing (author), Yang, M. (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author)The performance assessment of safety barriers is essential to find vulnerable elements in a safety barrier system. Traditional performance assessment approaches mainly focus on using several static indicators for quantifying the performance of safety barriers. However, with the increasing complexity of the system, emerging hazards are highly...journal article 2021
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Schepper, Rob (author), Almar, Rafael (author), Bergsma, Erwin (author), de Vries, S. (author), Reniers, A.J.H.M. (author), Davidson, Mark (author), Splinter, Kristen (author)In this paper, a new approach to model wave‐driven, cross‐shore shoreline change incorporating multiple timescales is introduced. As a base, we use the equilibrium shoreline prediction model ShoreFor that accounts for a single timescale only. High‐resolution shoreline data collected at three distinctly different study sites is used to train...journal article 2021
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van Nunen, K.L.L. (author), Swuste, P.H.J.J. (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author)Het programma Duurzame Veiligheid 2030 omvat verschillende initiatieven voor een nog veiligere (petro)chemische sector in Nederland. Eén van de onderdelen van dit programma heeft als doel de veiligheid in bestaande (petro)chemische clusters duurzaam en significant te verbeteren. Dit onderzoek is daar onderdeel van, en is een verkennende studie...journal article 2020
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Akrish, G. (author), Smit, Pieter (author), Zijlema, Marcel (author), Reniers, A.J.H.M. (author)Wave forecasting in ocean and coastal waters commonly relies on spectral models based on the spectral action balance equation. These models assume that different wave components are statistically independent and as a consequence cannot resolve wave interference due to statistical correlation between crossing waves, as may be found in, for...journal article 2020
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Sun, Hao (author), Wang, Haiqing (author), Yang, M. (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author)To quantify the pandemic specific impact with respect to the risk related to the chemical industry, a novel risk analysis method is proposed. The method includes three parts. Firstly, the two types of “window of opportunity” (WO) theory is proposed to divide an accident life cycle into two parts. Then, a qualitative risk analysis is conducted...journal article 2020
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van Nunen, K.L.L. (author), Swuste, P.H.J.J. (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author)In 2016 werd in Nederland het programma Duurzame Veiligheid 2030 opgestart door een gezamenlijke actie van industrie, wetenschap en overheid om de veiligheid in de (petro)chemische industrie te maximaliseren. Om dit te bereiken, worden via vijf roadmaps concrete activiteiten, pilots en onderzoek uitgewerkt. Dit onderzoek maakt daar deel van uit,...journal article 2020
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Schmitz, P.J.H. (author), Swuste, P.H.J.J. (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), van Nunen, K.L.L. (author)OCI Nitrogen aims to build up knowledge of (leading) indicators that provide insight in advance into the process safety performance of their ammonia production process. Two sub-studies have already been published in TtA. The first sub-study focused on ranking the most dangerous process units of the ammonia production process. In the second sub...journal article 2020
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Sas, Marlies (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), van Nunen, K.L.L. (author), Hardyns, Wim (author), Ponnet, Koen (author)An increase in the use of information and communication techniques, the complex modern infrastructure and a closer connection between different systems and organizations have created a greater vulnerability with respect to physical security. While numerous conceptual models, metaphors and principles have been developed to manage safety risks,...journal article 2020
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Schmitz, P.J.H. (author), Swuste, P.H.J.J. (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), van Nunen, K.L.L. (author)OCI Nitrogen aims to build up knowledge of (leading, proactive) indicators that provide insight into the process safety performance of the ammonia production process. Three sub-studies have already been published in TtA. The main question of this sub-study is whether major accidents in the ammonia production process can be predicted from...journal article 2020
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Vos, S.E. (author), Spaans, Lennard (author), Reniers, A.J.H.M. (author), Holman, Rob (author), McCall, Robert (author), de Vries, S. (author)Intertidal bars are naturally occurring morphological features along the waterline of sandy beaches. Present quantitative knowledge on intertidal bar behavior is limited, due to the scarcity of data resources and the limitations of traditional survey techniques. To investigate and quantify the cross-shore morphologic behavior of intertidal...journal article 2020
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Chen, C. (author), Khakzad, Nima (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author)Vapor cloud explosion (VCE) accidents in recent years such as the Buncefield accident in 2005 indicate that VCEs in process plants may lead to unpredicted overpressures, resulting in catastrophic disasters. Although a lot of attempts have been done to assess VCEs in process plants, little attention has been paid to the spatial-temporal...journal article 2020
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Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), Landucci, G. (author), Khakzad, Nima (author)Engineering risk management is comprised of managing operational safety risks on the one hand and managing physical security risks on the other. Although some basic management principles are obviously the same for both safety and security, some important conceptual and calculation differences exist, as is explained in this paper. For instance...journal article 2020
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Chen, C. (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), Khakzad, Nima (author)In the chemical industry, multi-hazard (toxic, flammable, and explosive) materials such as acrylonitrile are stored, transported, and processed in large quantities. A release of multi-hazard materials can simultaneously or sequentially lead to acute toxicity, fire and explosion. The spatial-temporal evolution of hazards may also result in...journal article 2020
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Bosboom, J. (author), Mol, M. (author), Reniers, A.J.H.M. (author), Stive, M.J.F. (author), de Valk, C. F. (author)Although commonly used for the validation of morphological predictions, point-wise accuracy metrics, such as the root-mean-squared error (RMSE), are not well suited to demonstrate the quality of a high-variability prediction; in the presence of (often inevitable) location errors, the comparison of depth values per grid point tends to favour...journal article 2020
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Sas, Marlies (author), Hardyns, Wim (author), van Nunen, K.L.L. (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), Ponnet, Koen (author)There has been an increase in research into the security culture in organizations in recent years. This growing interest has been accompanied by the development of tools to measure the level of security culture in order to identify potential threats and formulate solutions. This article provides a systematic overview of the existing tools. A...journal article 2020
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Sas, Marlies (author), Ponnet, Koen (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), Hardyns, Wim (author)Only since the beginning of this century, the prevention of radicalization has become an important topic in debates about terrorism and sustainable development in developing countries. Research has shown that radicalized individuals are not uneducated, but have often completed secondary or tertiary education. Additionally, it became clear...journal article 2020
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Li, Jie (author), Goerlandt, Floris (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author)Over the last decades, process safety has been an important area of academic inquiry, aiming to build knowledge which can contribute to reduce the occurrence of industrial accidents in the process and chemical industries, or to mitigate their consequences. Knowledge in this interdisciplinary research domain is created using applied science,...journal article 2020
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Schmitz, P.J.H. (author), Swuste, P.H.J.J. (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), van Nunen, K.L.L. (author)A Safety Research project was carried out in an ammonia plant of OCI Nitrogen, located at the Chemelot site in Geleen, The Netherlands. This research focused on the development of a method to monitor accident processes in the chemical industry mainly caused by mechanical integrity of static equipment like vessels, tanks and heat exchangers. A...journal article 2020
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Lindhout, P. (author), van der Werff, Karel (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author)The education and training program for inspectors of Major Accident Hazard Establishments, specifically the EC Seveso III directive implicated Dutch chemical companies, changed considerably over a fifteen year period. This longitudinal, time-series cross sectional case study describes the development of the education and training program for...journal article 2020
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Chen, C. (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author)Safety risks have become an obstacle to the sustainability of the chemical industry in China since many chemical companies were forced to close down by China's government in the past three years. This study investigates chemical safety in China in order to identify the causes of the major accidents and accompanying casualties, formulating the...journal article 2020