At the BARPI organisation, a team of engineers and technicians:
- manages and administers the database called ARIA (Analysis, Research and Information on Accidents), specifically designed for the study of industrial and technological accidents
- collects and centralises information available on accidents within the ARIA database
- produces and disseminates topical or sectorial analyses on industrial and technological accident records
- organises every 2 years a seminar “Lessons Learnt from Industrial Accidents” devoted to inspectors of the environment from France and other countries : see the proceedings of these seminars
- oversees the promotion of experience feedback as a risk prevention and mitigation tool
As part of its experience dissemination and sharing efforts, BARPI provides the following documents: