Scenario

01. Poor Value Perception
02. Poor Safety Awareness
03. Inadequate Risk Recognition
04. Organizational Problems
05. Poor Management
06. Slackness of Management
07. Insufficient Analysis or Research
08. Insufficient Practice
09. Lack of Imagination
10. Ignorance
11. Insufficient Knowledge
12. Insuficient Study and Experience
13. Planning and Design
14. Poor Planning
15. Poor Design
16. Bad Event
17. Chemical Phenomenon
18. Abnormal Reaction
19. Bad Event
20. Mechanical Event
21. Clogging
22. Bad Event
23. Chemical Phenomenon
24. Temperature Rise
25. Secondary Damage
26. External Damage
27. Rapture/Fire
28. Loss to Organization
29. Economic Loss

Fire caused due to an abnormal reaction at a high temperature of waste oil at the bottom of a waste oil tank at styrene recovery facilities
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
For the handling of a easy polymerized material, a operation that had been executed by not to consider the plugging due to polymerized material and not to be prepare sufficient observation instruments resulted a fire at last.

Field Chemicals and Plants
Author KOSEKI, Hirosi (National Research Institute of Fire and Disaster)
TAMURA, Masamitsu (Center for Risk Management and Safety Sciences, Yokohama National University)