Institution: | aInstitute of Nuclear Technology—Radiation Protection, National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Aghia Paraskevi 15310, Greece bSchool of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 1 Iroon Polytexneiou str., Zografou campus 157 80, Greece |
Abstract: | The present paper describes the development of a database that comprises all incidents from the Greek petrochemical industry for the period 1997–2003. This database includes industrial incidents, accidents, operational accidents and near misses from all petrochemical sites in Greece and Cyprus. The design of the database has been conceived in a user-friendly way with additional possibilities for its further use, such as: statistical analysis of the data, calculation of safety indicators, accident reports and human factors analysis. The database allows the various participating industries to compare the analysis of indicators in their own installations with the national average, as the database comprises data from the entire Greek petrochemical industry. Special care has been given to include data from near misses too. |