Three Decades of Positive Experience with Risk Based Safety Criteria in Ammunition and Explosives Handling in Switzerland

摘要

In Switzerland, the safety management of the handling of ammunition and explosives in the military field has been founded on a risk based safety assessment concept for almost 30 years. My presentation illuminates the needs for and the development of the risk based concept. I will show how its flexibility has allowed a reduction in the risks to a responsibly acceptable safety level with limited financial means and - in the same time - complying with the military requirements. I will also demonstrate how the investments for development, implementation, maintenance and updating of this concept have paid back more than a hundredfold.