Abstract:

The main causes of accident in chemical industry are due to deficiencies in the corporate structure, this means the effects of management and organizational variables must be incorporated into the assessment of the frequency. This work focuses attention on the frequency assessment of failure in piping, in particular loss of containment. Some methodologies for the quantification of the effects of measures of risk prevention on the frequencies of rupture of piping are available in literature. The method presented in this paper is a simple approach based on the definition of the links between the causes of failure and the measures adopted by the company to prevent them. After an overview on the causes of failure in piping, the paper describes the approach, the application to a case-study and the study of the sensitivity of the method.

1. Bringing information about a new concept for the start of a process of awareness-raising and commitment building;
2. After that, educating the concept to provide the knowledge for the assessments of the concept and strategic discussions in interaction processes with the key-actorswithin and between organizations to generate a basis for implementation;
3. Evaluating the learning processes to stimulate continuous improvement programmes;
4. The above-mentioned actions can be better embedded in organizations when asurroundings and an organizational analysis for the dissemination of the new concept is performed and the results are included in the approach.

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Received on September 15, 2008, revised on June 8, 2009