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B.4
Degree of integration and the joint programme of activities
Responsible: IPA
& TUC
& ICS
Assistance: all partners
Risk must be expressed with reference to some point. In
this respect, the most effective point to express risk will be the
enterprise.The following schema ilustrates this idea.
Figure
B.4.1-Risk categories
We could make distinction between :
1.
Risks acting inside the enterprise (RIE)-are
affecting workers and staff inside the enterprise;in this respect we could
distinguish:
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Financial and operational risks-are influencing the activity of the enterprise;
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Occupational and health risks-are influencing the workers of the enterprise;
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Work environment risks-are influencing the work environment-occupational, health and work environment risks are sometimes called industrial risks;
2.
Frontier risks (FR)-are influenced
by the enterprise but are acting outside it or are influencing the
enterprise being generated outside it; we could identify:
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Health risks-influenced directly or un-directly by the enterprise;
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Environmental risks-directly influenced by the work environment risks;
3.
Risks acting outside the enterprise(RAE)-are not
influenced by the enterprise;
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Health Risks-natural health risk (ageing, diseases not influenced by activity, etc.);
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Natural Risks- natural disasters like earthqueques, etc.
CARiMan is a risk management instrument that will have to
perform one/some/all of these functions:
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to identify specific risk factors;
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to quantify risk;
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to monitor risks;
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to assist in the decision process regarding risk prevention;
A lot of the risk aspects inside and at the border of the
enterprise is quantified in the Seveso II Directive regarding major risks. In
this respect, the development of CARiMan tools referencing the Seveso II
Directive will be helpfull in the fulfillment of this directive provisions
regarding environmental and occupational risks.
CARiMan will create a complete connection between all
concepts of natural - technological risk - disasters, emergency, environment
pollution (air, water, soil, radiation), monitoring, dispersion modelling and
simulation, industrial security, environmental and civil protection, human
health, chemical - civil alarm - scenarios - plan, computer assisted decision
– prognosis - meteorological conditions, risk assessment – analysis -
control and management.
The creation
of a Network of Excellence in Risk Management that will cover the
above-mentioned activities is a necessity.
Through this NoE, overlapping of the research in the applications involved in
CARiMan, in European level, will be avoided. The reduction of this overlapping
will provide the European Union with extra funding resources that could be used
for research in different areas.
The concept is an innovative but also a
global one. Environment protection and security are analysed together in as a
system that contains: permanent analysis, risk analysis, pollution surveys,
prognosis in risk conditions, alarm networks, operative guide- key deliver
system, computer aided decision, risk prevention and management of the different
kind of monitored systems (applications).
Technological and environmental risk
analysis is a major application domain for model-based decision support systems.
CARiMan supports four major application domains in a common, fully integrated
environment:
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risk assessment
·
risk management
·
technical training
·
dissemination of results
Towards the effective implementation of
the CARiMan issues, the joint programme of activities has been separated into
four different categories analysed in the following sections:
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The integrating activities cover the integration of technological developments to different fields. These activities can be defined as verticals crossing all technology aspects for each application;
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The jointly executed research activities deal with the various generic aspects of technology, as applied to all application (horizontal activities). The purpose of CARiMan is to create a common risk management platform that could be implemented in any kind of application;
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The activities to spread excellence deal with the way of avoiding overlapping in research, knowledge transfer in European level for all the applications introduced in CARiMan;
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The management activities, cover all vertical and horizontal activities aiming to effective dissemination and efficient integration, respectively.
Fig. B.4-1 illustrates the
structure of the activities in the Network of Excellence CARiMan.
Fig. B.4-1 Network
of activities in CARiMan.