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Biomass boiler wood silos

21/10/2022
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Wood, a noble and precious raw material, deserves attention at all levels of its life cycle : silviculture, transformation, storage, energy production… because, the fires to which it is frequently the object divert it from its final use. The current…

Accidents at crop-growing and livestock-rearing businesses

06/07/2022
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For many years, the farming sector has accounted for nearly 10% of accidents at French classified facilities for environmental protection recorded by BARPI in its ARIA database. From 2009 to 2021, this synthesis covers 1,259 events at crop-growing and livestock-rearing[...]

Newsletter Nr 17 – First semester 2022

15/06/2022
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Content of newsletter Nr 17 (First semester 2022) : Flash ARIA - Fire: the first essential measures to limit losses Synthesis - Involvement of lithium-ion batteries in accidents Brochure: The contribution of emblematic accidents Accident report - Heavy human toll[...]

Brochure: the contribution of emblematic accidents

07/06/2022
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Though industrial disasters are not forgotten, can the same be said for their root causes and resulting regulatory changes? BARPI has taken a look back at some of these accidents and compared them to recent events with less serious consequences.[...]

Facing the recurrence : bet on the feedback !

21/03/2022
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The observation of a recurrence of certain events is too often realized. The case of fire-explosions of tanks equipped with heating devices illustrating this problem shows that it is important when faced with a given type of event to know…

Ageing: it happens to all facilities

09/03/2022
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When the ageing of facilities is discussed, we often think of the PMII (i.e., French facility modernisation plan for classified facilities for environmental protection). The purpose of implementing this plan is to manage the integrity of production facilities in order[...]

Involvement of Lithium-ion batteries in accidents occurring in non-waste business sectors

09/03/2022
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Given they are omnipresent in our connected societies and boosted by the boom in new mobilities and power storage, demand for lithium-ion (Li-ion) cells and batteries is constantly increasing. In this study, BARPI has analysed all events involving Li-ion batteries[...]

Fire : the first essential measures to limit losses

25/01/2022
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In the event of a fire, the very first measures implemented by the operator are essential and can reduce the loss, allowing to control the disaster more quickly. This flash aims to draw the main lessons learned from the feedback…

Newsletter Nr 16 – Second semester 2021

10/12/2021
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Content of newsletter Nr 16 (Second semester 2021) : * Synthesis - Accident trends in the waste sector * Flash ARIA - Heavy rains and floodings * Accident report - When one alarmes hides another * Accident report - When[...]

Accident trends in the waste sector

23/11/2021
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The waste sector is the predominant industry in the accidentology related to classified facilities. This sector shows an increase of the number of events. This synthesis offers a comprehensive and macroscopic approach of the accidentology of the waste sector over…