Natural gas distribution networks are regularly damaged by public works vehicles during road works in the city. This fact sheet shows the main accident scenarios affecting these structures. Significant accidents, in regard of their human and social consequences or their[...]
Although they are restrictive, power outages in individual homes remain mostly innocuous. On the other hand, in the case of industrial sites, any disruption to the power supply can result in a sudden shutdown of the installations and serious consequences[...]
Whether they are tanks, pipelines or other equipment, whether intensively or punctually used, all of them are liable to lose over time a part of their initial characteristics in terms of operation and safety. The serious confinement losses of Donges[...]
Under standard operation of the installations, the thermal insulation and its protective sheath can complicate the detection of an anomaly, such as the local overheating of a part of equipment, leakage or releaf of chimicals or even of a possible[...]
So called, "laborious research" mobilizing important human and material resources is sometimes necessary to identify the origin of a pollution resulting from an industrial accident. Despite these difficulties in characterizing situations and identifying possible effects, it is up to the[...]
Transfer of chemicals between fixed and mobile tanks may cause mixtures of incompatible products. This risk is all the more pernicious as the mixture usually involves "classic" substances and widely used: bleach, acid ... This fact sheet presents some lessons[...]
The Water Framework Directive of December 2000 which commits the countries of the European Union with a goal of regaining the quality of the water and the aquatic environments by 2015, supposes a better protection of these environments against any[...]
The flooding, caused by a more or less rapid water level increase, either total or partial on site, has various origins: intense and prolonged rainfall, flooding of watercourses, clogging of the sewerage network, dam or dike rupture, rising of groundwater...[...]
Objectively, crisis have two main origins : one of a technical nature, linked to the presence of dangerous products, and the other social, linked to the incomprehension of the risks involved. The difference of perception of the risk involved analysis[...]
Pollution of the ground or of the atmosphere, contamination of food resources are some consequences of the immediate or delayed effects of a toxic or polluting substance release to the environment. The technical management of this situations and the resulting[...]
