About FACTS | |
Database for accidents with hazardous materials or dangerous goods Accidents involving hazardous materials may have serious consequences for people, the environment and property. So, reducing the incidence of such accidents is very important. One way of doing so is to investigate the causes of previous accidents- the information obtained is used to prevent history from repeating itself by formulating lessons learned or recommendations and to improve emergency response in future accidents. At the end of the seventies TNO created FACTS, a knowledge database containing information about (industrial) accidents involving hazardous materials which caused, or could have caused, severe damage and danger. FACTS is the most comprehensive database of its kind available on the market today. It contains more than 28,600 descriptions of accidents with hazardous materials. All accidents recorded in FACTS are coded in abstracts so as to make the data available for the purposes of risk and safety management, risk analyses, damage prevention, training and emergency response. |
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Pieter van Beek
2020-05-25T04:56:27+01:00