Scenario

01. Poor Value Perception
02. Poor Safety Awareness
03. Inadequate Risk Recognition
04. Organizational Problems
05. Inflexible Management Structure
06. Insufficient Education/Training
07. Insufficient Analysis or Research
08. Insufficient Practice
09. Lack of Imagination
10. Planning and Design
11. Poor Planning
12. Poor Design
13. Usage
14. Operation/Use
15. Process Waste Water
16. Gas Accumulation during Work
17. Bad Event
18. Chemical Phenomenon
19. Heat Generation/ Ignition
20. Secondary Damage
21. External Damage
22. Fire
23. Loss to Organization
24. Economic Loss
25. Direct Monetary Damage 23 million yen

Sudden fire due to contamination of unexpected impurities during neutralization work at a waste water storage tank
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
They considered the countermeasure against the dissoluted flammable gases in the waste water, but final check was not sufficient.

Field Chemicals and Plants
Author WAKAKURA, Masahide (Kanagawa Industrial Technology Research Institute)
TAMURA, Masamitsu (Center for Risk Management and Safety Sciences, Yokohama National University)