Three thousand acres of risk need a lot of thought.

By:

Pearson, John

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: 1990Description: 2p., illSubject(s):

Subject: An incident at the Fawley refinery near Southampton, England, following an inert gas over-pressurisation on board the 280,000-ton mobil petrel very large crude carrier, turned out to be one of the longest running (15 days) incidents Hampshire Fire Brigade had ever attended. By pre-planning and exercises, described in this report, a potential disaster was prevented.

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Australian Emergency Management Library	BOOK	363.1763 PEA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		005270468

Browsing Australian Emergency Management Library shelves, Collection: BOOK Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)

Previous	No cover image available No cover image available	No cover image available No cover image available	No cover image available No cover image available	No cover image available No cover image available	No cover image available No cover image available	No cover image available No cover image available	No cover image available No cover image available	Next
Previous	363.1763 LOW Low probability - high consequence accidents : application of systems theory for preventing hazardous failures.	363.1763 MAN The Role of veterinary sciences in chemical disasters and emergencies.	363.1763 NAT NATO handbook for sampling and identification of biological and chemical agents : volume 1 : procedures and techniques /	363.1763 PEA Three thousand acres of risk need a lot of thought.	363.1763 QUA Initial findings from a study of socio-behavioral preparations and planning for acute chemical hazard disasters.	363.1763 RAB Exporting hazardous waste in North America.	363.1763 ROH Risk perception and land-use safety in planning: Botany/Randwick industrial complex case.	Next

Reprinted from Fire International; August/September 1990; Vol 14 No 1; pp16-18

Reprint

An incident at the Fawley refinery near Southampton, England, following an inert gas over-pressurisation on board the 280,000-ton mobil petrel very large crude carrier, turned out to be one of the longest running (15 days) incidents Hampshire Fire Brigade had ever attended. By pre-planning and exercises, described in this report, a potential disaster was prevented.

Commercial

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.