Scenario

01. Poor Value Perception
02. Poor Safety Awareness
03. Inadequate Risk Recognition
04. Organizational Problems
05. Poor Management
06. Slackness of Management
07. Ignorance
08. Insufficient Knowledge
09. Insuficient Study and Experience
10. Planning and Design
11. Poor Planning
12. Poor Design
13. Malicious Act
14. Rule Violation
15. Safety Rule Violation
16. Secondary Damage
17. External Damage
18. Explosion
19. Bodily Harm
20. Death

Explosion during charging operation of raw material powder into a reactor containing dioxane
Case Details

Knowledge Comment:
An inert gas sealing has to be broken when a gap was made. Moreover static electricity acuumulates by handling with rubber glove.

Field Chemicals and Plants
Author ITAGAKI, Haruhiko (Japan National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health)
TAMURA, Masamitsu (Center for Risk Management and Safety Sciences, Yokohama National University)