Evaluation of major polluting accidents in China—Results and perspectives

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• 作者：Yu Hou ; Tian-zhu Zhang
• 关键词：Major pollution accident ; Evaluation ; Information collection ; Safety ; China
• 刊名：Journal of Hazardous Materials
• 出版年：2009
• 出版时间：15 September 2009
• 年：2009
• 卷：168
• 期：2-3
• 页码：670-673
• 全文大小：257 K

文摘

Lessons learnt from accidents are essential sources for updating state-of-the-art requirements in pollution accident prevention. To improve this input in the People's Republic of China in a systematic way, a database for collecting and evaluating major pollution accidents is being established. This is being done in co-operation with Chinese Society for Environment Sciences and other national Institutions. At the time of writing over 80 major events from 2002–2006 have been collected. In this paper, a summary evaluation on the major polluting events in China from 2002 to 2006 is presented and some basic lessons drawn shown. There is no a systematic pollution accident notification system currently in China. The results from root cause analysis underline the importance of emergency measures, maintenance, human factor issues and the role of safety organization. Chronic pollution, especially water pollution and air pollution should be paid the same attention as the sudden pollution. It is important to keep in mind that collecting information from major accidents represents a small percentage of the actual number of events taking place.