Step Change in Safety – Major Accident Hazard (MAH) Awareness
Step Change in Safety have published a safety moment or “mini alerts pack” on Major Accident Hazard (MAH) Awareness. It can be downloaded here.
The pack has been compiled to enable users to have proactive safety conversations about barriers to major accidents. It contains learnings from both oil & gas and other industries’ major accidents.
Each mini alert describes the circumstances, what went wrong and includes discussion points relating to the 7C’s of Safety.
The major accidents covered include:
- Chevron Richmond Refinery hydrocarbon leak of 6/8/2012 – nineteen persons engulfed by fire;
- Costa Concordia disaster of 13/1/2012 – ship holed, 32 fatalities;
- DuPont Chemical Release of 23/1/2010 – one fatality;
- Flixborough disaster of 1974 – 28 fatalities in chemical plant fire and explosion;
- Grenfell Tower – 14/6/2017 – tower block fire leading to 72 fatalities;
- Lindsey oil refinery – 29/10/2010 – one fatality;
- Mumbai High – 27/7/2005 – oil rig fire and explosion, 22 fatalities;
- Pryor Trust well blowout – 22/1/2018, five fatalities;
- Tenerife airport disaster of 1977 – aircraft collide leading to 583 fatalities.
IMCA works closely with Step Change in Safety https://www.stepchangeinsafety.net/ to promote and encourage sharing of incidents and to reduce incident and injury rates.
Safety Event
Published: 11 August 2021
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IMCA SF 22/21
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