Abstract
The paper focuses on risk sources under no legislative pressure in the field of prevention of major accidents. Despite this, they can represent significant sources of risk of accidents.The aim of the paper is to present the results of the risk assessment associated with the operation of enterprises not regulated by the SEVESO III Directive (the so-called subliminal enterprises), to provide information on possible operational problems and to verify the applicability of recognized risk analysis methods for these specific sources of risk. Last but not least, its purpose is to point out that subliminal enterprises, due to their location close to residential areas or areas with a high concentration of population, pose a serious risk to the population.The paper summarizes the results of the quantitative risk assessment of a specific enterprise not included in the Seveso Directive – a filling station. Filling stations are frequently located in built-up areas with a dense coefficient of habitability. Due to their number, location (e.g. close to residential areas), frequency of occurrence of persons in the area and handling of dangerous substances during normal operation, they can have negative or even tragic consequences to the life and health of the population.Due to the non-existent risk assessment methodology for enterprises with subliminal quantities of dangerous substances and the lack of a systematic search for risk sources, a risk assessment procedure for these companies is designed.
Highlights
At present, there is an increasing emphasis on safety, protection of human life and health, the environment and the prevention of major operational accidents
As an example of the implementation of the Seveso Directive into the national laws of the EU Member States, we present the case of the Slovak Republic
The trend in risk assessment is the hierarchization of results, where especially for applicable methods, the results are presented as indices of the level of danger, the so-called index or screening methods (Bernatík, 2016)
Summary
There is an increasing emphasis on safety, protection of human life and health, the environment and the prevention of major operational accidents. The issue of prevention of emergency events has become increasingly discussed (Gai et al, 2018). In this context, the issue of the prevention of major accidents is developing dynamically. Chemical accidents in close proximity to a populated area have the potential to be catastrophic with large number of casualties (Tahmid et al, 2020). To prevent such major industrial accidents, many developed countries, including the US and EU, have implemented emergency management systems ranging from accident prevention, emergency preparedness, and emergency response to acci dent relief (Lee et al, 2016). In order to prevent the occur rence of the accident, many countries have devoted lots of time to the research and development of safety management and risk assessment, future regulations of risk-based approach will require better incident scenario development (Mannan et al, 2016)
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