MART: Major Accident Risk Tree for Investigation of Process Industries Accidents

摘要

The investigation of major accidents is required by law, and brings important information to repair the safety system and prevent further such incidents as well. A number of methods to investigate accidents at work are presented in the literature, but much less of such methods are available for process accidents causing the release of hazardous chemicals. Additionally, the teams carrying out investigations of accidents have a serious problem in establishing facts, because the systems after catastrophic accidents are often completely destroyed, there is a large number of process data, and sometimes the most important witnesses are dead. So the best strategy for overcoming these difficulties is to introduce to the investigation process knowledge and information resulting from previous experience that is available in the databases of the incident and also in the process safety standards. That is the main premise of undertaking research in this field.