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Planning for Chemical Disasters in Greece
Author(s) -
PSOMAS STILIANOS
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
disasters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.744
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-7717
pISSN - 0361-3666
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-7717.1990.tb01075.x
Subject(s) - directive , poison control , occupational safety and health , forensic engineering , risk analysis (engineering) , injury prevention , environmental planning , human factors and ergonomics , suicide prevention , engineering , business , medical emergency , environmental health , transport engineering , environmental science , computer science , medicine , political science , law , programming language
A mathematical model named DISASTER was applied in the Thessaloniki area for the assessment of potential hazards resulting from major accidents in local chemical industries. Some of these hazards are too severe to ignore and immediate measures are therefore required. Such measures need to comply with the EEC Directive 82/501/EEC on major accidents. The implementation of the Directive by the Greek authorities is examined and discussed.