Synthesis Archives - La référence du retour d'expérience sur accidents technologiques

Accidents at crop-growing and livestock-rearing businesses

06/07/2022

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[...]

Brochure: the contribution of emblematic accidents

07/06/2022

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.[...]

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

09/03/2022

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[...]

Actuators, the last link in the industrial automation chain

07/12/2020

The study of accidents in the field of industrial automation, which has already addressed sensors and the processing function, continues with this third part devoted to actuators. This summary presents the causes of accidents involving actuators and makes recommendations. In[...]

IBC: I’d Be Careful!

18/11/2020

Intermediate bulk containers are considered quite practical owing to their volume, compact design and easy transportability with just a forklift. As such, they are suitable for an extensive range of industrial and domestic applications. These containers are sometimes involved in[...]

High temperatures

25/08/2020

Exceptionally high temperatures are an increasingly prevalent natural hazard and can lead to numerous events in industrial facilities. For this summary, we've studied more than 300 events throughout France in an attempt to highlight the trends in these types of[...]

So what feedback is available on conveyor accidents?

22/06/2020

Conveyors or elevators are used in many agricultural and industrial activities. An analysis of the accidents recorded in the ARIA database shows that this type of equipment is regularly involved in accidents involving fire and explosions. The purpose of this summary[...]

Proceedings of the 13th IMPEL seminar “Lessons Learnt from Industrial Accidents” (2019)

29/05/2019

Since its creation in 1999, the seminar on “Lessons Learnt from Industrial Accidents” is organized every two years by the BARPI. This event is devoted to inspectors of the environment. It is organized with the support of the European Union[...]

The manufacture of vegetable oils: a risky activity

26/02/2019

The accident that occurred in Dieppe, France, on 17 February 2018, reminds us that the process of manufacturing vegetable oil is not without risk. Although in the present case the explosion was located in the vegetable oil extractor, the many[...]

Feedback on the flooding of industrial sites in January 2018 in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region (France)

07/12/2018

At the end of January 2018, the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region (BFC) suffered numerous episodes of intense rainfall and floods. The storm Eleanor was indeed, according to Meteo-France, accompanied the 4 and 5 of January of rainy precipitations and important snow on[...]