Many incidents have occurred because industries have ignored past incidents or failed to
learn lessons from the past. Incident databases provide an effective option for managing
large amounts of information about the past incidents. Analysis of data stored in
existing databases can lead to useful conclusions and reduction of chemical incidents
and consequences of incidents. An incident database is a knowledge based system that
can give an insight to the situation which led to an incident. Effective analysis of data
from a database can help in development of information that can help reduce future
incidents: cause of an incident, critical equipment, the type of chemical released, and the
type of injury and victim. In this research, Hazardous Substances Emergency Events
Surveillance (HSEES) database has been analyzed focusing on manufacturing events in
Texas from 1993-2004.
Between thirteen to sixteen states have participated in the HSEES incident reporting
system and it does not include all the near miss incidents. Petroleum related incidents
are also excluded from the HSEES system. Studies show that HSEES covers only 37%
of all incidents in the US. This scaling ratio was used to estimate the total universe size.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:tamu.edu/oai:repository.tamu.edu:1969.1/4867 |
| Date | 25 April 2007 |
| Creators | Obidullah, A.S.M. |
| Contributors | Mannan, M. Sam |
| Publisher | Texas A&M University |
| Source Sets | Texas A and M University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Book, Thesis, Electronic Thesis, text |
| Format | 477140 bytes, electronic, application/pdf, born digital |
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