Major Accidents to the Environment: A Practical Guide to the Seveso II-Directive and COMAH Regulations - Hardcover

Ivan Vince

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0750683899 ISBN 13: 9780750683890

Publisher: A Butterworth-Heinemann Title, 2007

Synopsis

• If our plant catches fire, when should it be allowed to burn down to prevent pollution


• When does enforcement turn into prosecution, following an environmental accident?


• Will our environmental insurance cover the costs of remediation?

This book provides a thorough and practical guide to the environmental aspects of compliance with the Seveso II Directive and COMAH regulations and surrounding issues.

It guides readers through the technical, legal and insurance related complexities unique to the environmental aspects of Seveso II/COMAH. Individual chapters and sections written by relevant experts explain the implications of the Directive/Regulations and other laws that relate to major accident hazards. Valuable case studies underpin and illuminate the arguments presented.

The comprehensive appendices contain a wealth of further case studies as well as focused supporting information on environmental design, assessment and management of major hazard installations, for safety, prevention and environmental professionals, risk assessors, insurers, managers and their legal advisors.

Dr Ivan Vince is Director of ASK Consultants and co-founder of one of the first industrial risk consultancies in Eastern Europe. He has investigated several environmental accidents.

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* This is only guide to working with and implementing the Seveso II-Directive and COMAH (Control of Major Accident Hazards) regulations
* Written by leading risk management, scientific, legal, and engineering experts, this book provides all of the key elements an organisation 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

About this title

Review:

"The information and lessons in this book are a valuable resource for operators of major hazard establishments and their environmental and safety advisors when assessing the potential impact of their operations.. This book gives an insight into the diverse aspects of MATTEs. Operators of COMAH /Seveso II establishments and safety and environmental professionals should take account of the information and lessons presented in this publication." --The Chemical Engineer Today magazine

About the Author:

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).

About this edition

• Publisher: A Butterworth-Heinemann Title
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0750683899
• ISBN 13: 9780750683890
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320