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. Planning and Design
08. Poor Planning
09. Unripeness Autmatization Planning
10. Production
11. Software Production
12. Non-Regular Action
13. Change
14. Change of Operation Procedure
15. Malfunction
16. Poor Software
17. Umbalanced Operation
18. Secondary Damage
19. External Damage
20. Explosion
21. Bodily Harm
22. Death
23. 4 person died
24. Bodily Harm
25. Injury
26. 15 person injured
27. Loss to Organization
28. Economic Loss
29. Direct Manetary Damage 14 million yen

Explosion occurred immediately after automation of a reactor for preparing guanidine nitrate.
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
They could not evaluate a risk after change because the automation of the plant was in unripeness.

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