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 A Practical Guide to the Seveso II-Directive and COMAH Regulations
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By
Ivan Vince
Description
- If our plant catches fire, when should it be allowed to burn down to prevent pollution?
- When does enforcement turn into
prosecution, following an environmental accident?
- Will our environmental insurance cover the costs of remediation?
This book provides a thorough and practical guide to the environmental aspects of compliance with the Seveso II Directive and COMAH
regulations and surrounding issues.
It guides readers through the technical, legal and insurance related complexities unique to the
environmental aspects of Seveso II/COMAH. Individual chapters and sections written by relevant experts explain the implications of the
Directive/Regulations and other laws that relate to major accident hazards. Valuable case studies underpin and illuminate the arguments
presented.
The comprehensive appendices contain a wealth of further case studies as well as focused supporting information on environmental
design, assessment and management of major hazard installations, for safety, prevention and environmental professionals, risk assessors,
insurers, managers and their legal advisors.
Dr Ivan Vince is Director of ASK Consultants and co-founder of one of the first industrial
risk consultancies in Eastern Europe. He has investigated several environmental accidents.
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Audience
Professional health & safety practitioners, plant engineers, chemical engineers, environmental engineers, fire protection, ecologists,
environmental and industrial lawyers. Graduate students of risk, H&S, and environmental management and engineering.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Part I – Major Accidents and the Environment
1. Practical Aspects (Ivan Vince, Bob Sargent, Niall Ramdsen and
Tony Moore)
Introduction
Risk assessment under the COMAH regulations
Prevention and mitigation
Fire or water?
Emergency planning
2. Legal Aspects of Major Accidents to the Environment (Daniel Lawrence and Caryl Walter)
Introduction
Key duties and obligations
under the COMAH regime
Overview of the types of liabilities that may arise
Information disclosure obligations
Criminal liability
Civil liability – third party claims
Some further practical considerations relating to third party claims and enforcement action
Transboundary
pollution arising from major accidents
Conclusion
3. Insurance for Major Accidents to the Environment (Valerie Fogleman)
Introduction
Types of insurance policies
Construction of insurance policies
Employers? liability policies
Further liability policies
Property
policies
Directors? and officers? policies
Professional indemnity policies
Environment insurance policies
Financial security for
damage caused by major accidents to the environment
Case studies
Sandoz, Schweizerhalle, Switzerland
Do?ana National Park, Spain
Bartoline, Beverley, East Yorkshire
Part II – Appendices
1. The Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations 1999. Principles
to be taken into account when preparing major accident prevention policy document
2. Substances dangerous for the environment
3. Major
Hazard Incident Data Acquisition Service (MHIDAS)
4. Guidance on the interpretation of MATTEs for the purposes of the COMAH Regulations
5. Report of the Special Session on Environmental Consequences of Chemical Accidents, Paris, France, 20 November 2000
6. Environmental
risk assessment in support of COMAH and PPC
7. Regional inventory of potential accidental risk spots
8. Lessons learned from major accidents
1999?2000
9. Mapping the impacts of recent natural disasters and technological accidents in Europe
10. Water reactive materials – incorporation
into safety and environmental risk assessments
11. Emergency response plan for full-surface tank fires
12. Managing firewater and major
spillages
13. Penalties for conviction under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (HSWA) and relevant statutory provisions (including
COMAH)
14. Penalties for Conviction under key provisions of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, The Environment Act 1995 and the Water
Resources Act 1991
Index
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 320 pages, publication date: DEC-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-8389-0
ISBN-10: 0-7506-8389-9
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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