Learning from accidents

1
Learning from accidents C Boland / Dupont
2
Purpose of this session

• To explain current transport incident reporting
  system
• To present the learning from accidents platform
• To obtain your input on possible improvements

3
Transport Incident reporting Background

• Launched in 1998 as part of Cefic Reponsible Care
  HSE Reporting Guidelines (transport incidents is
  one of 16 core parameters)
• Objectives
• measure continuous improvement
• allow companies to benchmark
• Data collection
• by local sites/companies to national federations
  
• by national federations to Cefic
• Data published each year as RC Performance
  Indicators
• by national federations (national performance
  data)
• by Cefic (consolidated European performance data)

4
Transport Incident Reporting Current
reporting criteria

• Definition of distribution (in-transit
  transport/handling)
• Criteria for reportable distribution incidents
  (independent of whether chemical contributed)
• Death/injury (3 days absence)
• Product spillage (gt 200 kg haz / gt1000 kg
  non-haz)
• Property damage (gt 40.000 Euro)
• Public disruption (gt 1 hr)
• Media coverage
• Reportable data
• total tonnage by transport mode
• total number of reportable incidents by
  transport mode
• Published data incident frequency
• (number of incidents per 1 million tonnes)

5
Rail transport incident data
6
Road transport incident data
7
RC Transport Incident Reporting

• Proposals for future revision
• Reporting criteria to be harmonised as far as
  possible with regulatory reporting requirements
  (ADR)
• Identifying those incidents involving product
  loss (already being reported within the total
  number of incidents)

8
Learning from accidents

• New CEFIC accident sharing platform
• Objective sharing of learning from transport
  incidents / accidents amongst chemical companies
  in order to
• identify main root causes / trends / problem
  areas
• identify issues for which industry action is
  required
• Pilot with 6 chemical companies
• Frequency of meetings 2x / year

9
Session Products

• Proposals for future revision of the RC transport
  
• incident reporting system ?
• How to share learning from accidents
• on a wider basis ?