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Methodology of economics --- Production management --- Business management --- Business economics --- Chemical technology --- financieel management --- veiligheid (mensen) --- risk management --- chemische technologie
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This book provides insight into domino effects in industrial chemical sites and process industries. It is about the integration of safety and security resources to prevent and mitigate domino effects in the process industries. It explains how chemical industrial areas, comprised of various hazardous installations, are susceptible to a chain of undesired events, or domino effects, triggered by accidental events or intentional attacks and then presents solutions to prevent them. Firstly, the book provides a dynamic graph approach to model the domino effects induced by accidental fire or intentional fire, considering the spatial-temporal evolution of fires. Then, a dynamic risk assessment method based on a discrete dynamic event tree is proposed to assess the likelihood of VCEs and the vulnerability of installations, addressing the time dependencies in vapor cloud dispersion and the uncertainty of delayed ignitions. A dynamic methodology based on dynamic graphs and Monte Carlo is provided to assess the vulnerability of individuals and installations exposed to multi-hazards, such as fire, explosion and toxic release during escalation events. Based on these domino effect models, an economic approach is developed to integrate safe and security resources, obtaining the most cost-benefit protection strategy for preventing domino effects. Finally, a resilience-based approach is provided to find out the most cost-resilient way to protect chemical industrial areas, addressing possible domino effects. This integrated approach will be of interest to researchers, industrial engineers, chemical engineers and safety managers and will help professionals to new solutions in the area of safety and security.
Methodology of economics --- Production management --- Business management --- Business economics --- Chemical technology --- financieel management --- veiligheid (mensen) --- risk management --- chemische technologie
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This thesis has the purpose of exploring how safety and security assessment and management can be integrated in a practical and user-friendly way. To answer the research questions, a literature research was performed and four interviews were conducted with practitioners in the field of safety and security management. First, the semantics of behind the concepts risk, safety and security were researched to get a clear understanding of the actual meaning and existing perceptions of those concepts. Once the concepts were clearly understood, commonalities and differences between safety and security were identified. Even though both concepts represent two distinct domains, some commonalities exist that make it possible to integrate the management and assessment of safety and security, to increase efficiency and effectiveness. Apart from those two benefits, research was conducted in order to identify additional advantages or disadvantages on the integration of safety and security. To obtain inspiration for the development of a model, the literature research offered insights in existing safety and security frameworks, models and metaphors. Based on the gathered knowledge of the concepts of safety and security, existing integrated models or frameworks and insights from the interviews, a model to integrate safety and security management was constructed. This model should provide sufficient guidance in an efficient management of safety and security in all kinds of organisations.
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