The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the safety management in Italian Seveso industries.

Autor: Bragatto P; Dipartimento Innovazioni Tecnologiche INAIL Via Fontana Candida, Monteporzio Catone, (RM), 1 00078, Italy., Vairo T; Dipartimento Ingegneria Civile, Chimica e Ambientale Università di Genova Via Opera Pia, 15, Genova, 16145, Italy.; Agenzia per La Protezione dell' Ambiente Ligure ARPAL, Via Bombrini 8, Genova, 16149, Italy., Milazzo MF; Dipartimento Ingegneria Università di Messina C.da di Dio, Villaggio Sant'Agata, Messina, 98158, Italy., Fabiano B; Dipartimento Ingegneria Civile, Chimica e Ambientale Università di Genova Via Opera Pia, 15, Genova, 16145, Italy.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of loss prevention in the process industries [J Loss Prev Process Ind] 2021 May; Vol. 70, pp. 104393. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Jan 18.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlp.2021.104393
Abstrakt: The paper discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Italian chemical and process industries, where Directive 2012/18/EU Seveso III, for the control of Major Accident Hazard (MAH), is enforced. The Safety Management System (SMS) for the control of MAH, which has been mandatory for 20 years in Italian Seveso Establishments, has been highly stressed by the external pressure, related in some way to the COVID-19 pandemic. Fairly, most companies, in particular in oil and gas sectors, have demonstrated an adequate capability to reconcile operation continuity and health requirements. This experience is providing the establishment operators and the regulators with valuable suggestions for the improvements of the SMS-MAH. Within this framework, an innovative organisational resilience model is proposed, aiming at the development of a higher capability to face future new crisis. The current SMS-MAH already includes some basic pillars to enhance resilience, which were valuable during the pandemic crisis, but a full and rationale development is still needed. Starting from the first pandemic phase experience, this paper presents a novel tool to assess the degree of "resilience" of a SMS-MAH. It is based on a questionnaire, featuring 25 questions grouped into eight items, according to the typical SMS-MAH structure. A two level AHP model has been developed in order to define the weights to be assigned to each point. The AHP panel included industrial practitioners, regulators, authorities and researchers. The results are based on the COVID-19 experience and consequently the developed model is tailored to face health emergencies, but the approach may be easily transferred to other external crises.
Competing Interests: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
(© 2021 The Authors.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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