Scenario

01. Poor Value Perception
02. Poor Safety Awareness
03. Inadequate Risk Recognition
04. Insufficient Analysis or Research
05. Insufficient Practice
06. Lack of Imagination
07. Planning and Design
08. Poor Planning
09. Poor Design
10. Non-Regular Operation
11. Emergency Operation
12. Emergency Shutdown
13. Secondary Damage
14. External Damage
15. Explosion
16. Bodily Harm
17. Death
18. 3 person died
19. Bodily Harm
20. Injury
21. 7 person injured
22. Loss to Organization
23. Economic Loss
24. Direct Monetary Damage 300 million yen
25. Damage to Society
26. Social Systems Failure
27. Damaged 6 km radius

Explosion caused due to valve operation trouble during an emergency shutdown of a compressor at a vinyl chloride plant
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
Human beings do not do many actions and judgments at the same time. Emergency procedure must be simple.

Field Chemicals and Plants
Author DOBASHI, Ritsu (School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo)
TAMURA, Masamitsu (Center for Risk Management and Safety Sciences, Yokohama National University)