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Research on the Prevention of Major Industrial Accident By Integrated Risk Management System  

Kwon, Hyuck-Myun (Korea Occupatonal Safety & Health Agency)
Seong, Dae-Hyun (Korea Occupatonal Safety & Health Agency)
Kim, Jae-Hyun (Korea Occupatonal Safety & Health Agency)
Yim, Dae-Sik (Korea Occupatonal Safety & Health Agency)
Kim, Gi-Young (Korea Occupatonal Safety & Health Agency)
Pyeon, Mu-Wook (Konkuk University)
Moon, Il (Yonsei University)
Ko, Jae-Wook (Kwangwoon University)
Lee, Young-Soon (Seoul National University of Technology)
Yoon, En-Sup (Seoul University)
Publication Information
Journal of the Korean Society of Safety / v.18, no.3, 2003 , pp. 88-93 More about this Journal
Abstract
The Process Safety Management (PSM) by the Law of Industry, Safety and Health has been performed for preventing major accidents of chemical plants since 1996. In terms of preventing chemical accidents more precisely, it is essential to develop a tool for quantitative risk assessment. For this, KOSHA (Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency) developed an Integrated Risk Management System (IRMS). The system is designed to assimilate data on chemical plant hazards from external database, to integrate these data with location information(topographic and demographic), and to make them user-friendly accessible. The system consists of several main functions: display of five major Korean petrochemical complex layout display of equipment layout with its information utilizing the external database, zonation of the hazard effected area with consequence analyses, the most probable accident scenario generation, accident/incident database and calculation of frequency of accident using equipment reliability database, etc. The highlight of IRMS is to provide the risk contours using GIS(Geographical Information System) technology. IRMS is intended to manage hazardous installation more systematically and effectively, to reduce the number of accident remarkably, further minimizing production loss in the plant. The system is now under application to about 500 PSM sites as well as and emergency authorities in Korea by KOSHA (Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency)
Keywords
PSM; IRMS; GIS(geographical information system); risk contour;
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