Abstract
Major accidents still occur on process industry plants as recent disasters in Enschede in 2000 on a firework storage, in Toulouse in 2001 on a fertilizer plant reminded us. The trend is approximately of 30 to 40 major accidents per year through EU [1,2]. Control of these major accidents involving hazardous materials is the main objective of the Seveso II Directive. In this context, it could be useful for risk analysts, decision and policy makers in France to have an order of magnitude of historical major accident frequencies on fixed installations in France and in the EU. In particular, an estimate of 3 10-3 major accident per Seveso site per year was recently (2002) introduced in some EC communication [1].
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