Self-designing networks and structural influences on safety: Developing a theory on the relation between organizational design and safety in temporary organizations that operate in a dynamic environment

Optic Compliance: Enforcement and Compliance in the Dutch Chemical Industry

Ships in an Artificial Force Field: A Multi-agent System for Nautical Traffic and Safety

The main objective of this research is developing a simulation tool that provides information of detailed ship behavior in a specific navigational environment, on both the ship traffic level and the individual ship level, for safety analysis, decision making, planning of ports and waterways, and design of mitigation measures. In this research,...

Principles and Management of Information Process for Integrated Management of Fire Safety at SEVESO Sites

After a chemical incident with severe consequences had occurred in the small village called Seveso in Italy in 1976, the first SEVESO directive was introduced in 1982 to protect the environment in member states of the European Union. The Directive has since been updated several times. SEVESO III will be effective from June the first 2015. The...

Road safety in bits and pieces; for a better understanding of the development of the number of road fatalities

Relevance The analyses and forecasts of the annual number of road casualties are relevant for outlining road safety policies. With analyses we try to understand the road safety developments. This involves the relation between the observed annual numbers of casualties and external factors. These are developments in distance travelled, safety...

Warning citizens; influencing self-reliance in emergencies

An important part of the response to an emergency is making sure that people are able to take themselves and others to a place of safety. To make people aware that there is an emergency, there are three steps that have to be taken: there has to be a warning that something is going on, people have to perceive and process that warning, and finally...

Taalproblemen bij BRZO- en ARIE bedrijven, een onderschat gevaar? Een verkennend onderzoek naar het raakvlak tussen taalproblemen en zware ongevallen.

Language issues as a result of illiteracy and foreign languages on the shopfloor are not being identified as a risk within current safety management systems. These risks are to be identified, quantified and prioritised in order to allow risk reducing measures to be taken.The nature of language issues related danger was investigated in literature...

Human Risk of Fire: Building a decision support tool using Bayesian networks

Risk, Territory and Society: Challenge for a Joint European Regulation

In 2004, the Major Accidents Hazards Bureau of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission launched the “Land Use Planning Including MAHB and NEDIES” research programme, in the context of which most of the research collected in this book was conducted. The focus of the investigation was on the different methods developed by Member...

A Methodology to Allow Comparison among Different Energy Systems

The work proposes a methodology to overcome diversity of risk expressions and allow comparison among different energy systems, being them connected to traditional or innovative technologies. The investigation started with the analysis of ten different energy chains along their steps, which has led to the development of a common frame applicable...

How safe is safe enough?

Disasters can never be completely ruled out. The Dutch national government has therefore committed itself to the concept of risk rather than the false promise of absolute safety. The objectives of this study were to evaluate current regulatory practices in the domains of industrial and flood safety in the Netherlands, and to formulate proposals...