Accident hazard database for the process industry in Sri Lanka

Abstract

Hazard can be described as a situation that can lead to harm. Such situations happen due to accidents in the industry. Hazardous conditions pose safety and health impacts within the working environment as well as in the environment outside the plant. These impacts vary from near misses to loss of lives. The current status or the extent of the industrial accidents occurs in Sri Lanka lacks understanding. When looking at industries in the industrialised countries one could see increasing efforts being made in understanding causes of accidents and instituting remedial Many accidents in the process industry that the world has experienced in the past have occurred repeatedly. These occurrences are lessons from the past and must not be forgotten in order to avoid disasters from happening in the future. In the process of becoming an industrialised country, Sri Lanka would need to develop some measures in managing process industrial hazards. A compilation of the data regarding accidents that have happened in the past would facilitate analysis of the accidents and understand the type and nature of accidents occur in this country. It would help us to determine the current status of accidents in Sri Lanka. Further, this Accident Database would be a valuable source of information in using the lessons from the past to avoid accidents in the future.