Assessing Risks to Occupants of Existing Buildings on Chemical Plants Due to Hazards of Fire and Explosion
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Following publication of the 1998 CIA guidance on the design and location of occupied buildings, operators are now required to assess the risks to occupants of new, existing and temporary buildings. Eutech have been actively involved in carrying out occupied building assessments for a number of years now and have found that in the vast majority of cases, operators are faced with the problem of assessing existing buildings. Assessing existing buildings poses a particular problem in that the cost of modification can be very high. This paper describes a methodology using a mainly hazard based approach, which is used by Eutech for assessing risks to existing building occupants to enable a practical basis of safety to be developed. Practical use of the latest TNO ‘GAMES’ method for vapour cloud explosion modelling is also described.
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