Security risk assessment and management in chemical plants: Challenges and new trends

Abstract

The present study is to point out the outcomes of the Seminar on the Chemical Weapon Convention and Chemical Safety and Security Management for Member States in the Asia Region held by Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in Doha, Qatar, in February 2017. The seminar was aimed at supporting chemical safety and security (CSS) management in the chemical industry in Asian countries. Overall goal was to sensitize States Parties to the new approaches that can be adopted in relation to CSS management, with a particular focus on providing assistance to small and medium‐sized enterprises. This article reflects the observations made by keynote speakers via their interaction with participants from Asian State Parties during presentations' questions & answers sessions and following workshops. The article is an attempt to highlight the challenges in security risk assessment and management of chemical facilities and discuss some new trends for further improvements. © 2017 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Process Saf Prog 37: 211–220, 2018

Operational safety economics: Foundations, current approaches and paths for future research

“…Safety concerns unintentional events (e.g., corrosion caused release accidents) while security focuses on intentional events (e.g., terrorist attacks) ( Khakzad et al, 2018 , Reniers et al, 2020 ). Security has received increasing attention since the 9/11 terrorist attack in the US, in 2001.…”

A Personalized and Practical Method for Analyzing the Risk of Chemical Terrorist Attacks

“…Other risk factors related to terrorist attacks are obtained from books and terrorist attack risk analysis articles [3], [40]- [43], [45]. For example, Khakzad et al [46] listed some information which needs to be considered from the perspective of terrorist organization: (1) the general history of threats and attacks against similar targets, (2) location-specific attack records, (3) attacker's capabilities and potential behaviours, (4) the attractiveness of chemical facilities in the eyes of attackers. To model chemical terrorist attacks from a comprehensive perspective, In this study, risk factors are classified into seven classes: Terrorist organization, Terrorist attack, Target, Individual, Climate, Defensive power, Emergency Response (as seen in Table 2).…”

Identifying University Chemicals That Pose Security Risks: A Simple Qualitative Approach

“…Various laboratory-focused tools and methodologies for completing a safety risk assessment have been published, yet few similar resources to address chemical security exist . Several security risk-related research papers for chemical plants and the process industry are available, − but as the US Chemical Safety Board has noted, industrial guidelines and approaches do not always lend themselves to be directly applied to academic institutions . This paper presents a simple qualitative security risk assessment approach that has been applied at a university in a developing country.…”