1. Accidents and learning from accidents Group 3
Break-out session 1
Accidents and learning from accidents
Group 3

2. Questions for discussion
B1-1
REPORTING:
Main Question: What is your legal requirement and trigger for reporting accidental initiations of explosions and pyrotechnics (and fireworks); quantity involved, consequence?
How and to whom are they reported; centrally or locally?
What proportion of significant incidents go unreported; i.e. reported by others such as the public?
Are there differences between the explosives and the pyrotechnics/fireworks industries?
B1-2
INVESTIGATION:
Main Question: Who investigates reported explosions; the company, your inspectors, specialists?
Is there a legal obligation on companies to investigate their own explosions?
Are investigations carried out independently or jointly?
How are they carried out; tools, forensic investigation, technical and SMS failures?
Do the investigations address underlying as well as the direct causes?
B1-3
LESSONS LEARNED:
Main Question: What are the most important lessons learned from explosives and pyrotechnics incidents in your country; technical, procedural, SMS and cultural?
What are the lessons?
How are these lessons shared with others; databases; company reports; safety bulletins – company internal, industry external, regulator; across the EU?
How are these bulletins and information used; training, education?

3. B 1-1 Reporting Main Question: What is your legal requirement and trigger for reporting accidental initiations of explosions and pyrotechnics (and fireworks); quantity involved, consequence?
You can take notes in this section:

4. B1-2 Investigation Main Question: Who investigates reported explosions; the company, your inspectors, specialists?
Police, inspectors, specialists, prosecuter, company
You can take notes in this section:

5. B1-3 Lessons Learned Main Question: What are the most important lessons learned from explosives and pyrotechnics incidents in your country; technical, procedural, SMS and cultural?
Stricter controls more frequently
Training
Management of change
Classification of explosives
Sharing through meetings
Product based inforcement campaigns
You can take notes in this section:
Germany: national competent authority for classification of transport (UN orange book) and storage group assignment
Enschede, Kolding, Finland: Land use-planning
Waste disposal
Bulgaria: one single body who is responsible for the whole production/disposal chain; increase of requirements for getting permits: reduction of sites; training and technology
Portugal: technical review, training
Hungary: totallz illegal p<rotechnical site, storage and manufacturing at the same place, explosives also were present, exploded during producing on ad-hoc way
The operator did not provide his workers with antistatic clothes on a storage site, the couse of explosion was electrostatical ignition
The rain water could og into the storage area, the couse was self ignition
The security team burned a sort of communal wastes after the working hours, some plastic pieces was polluted with explosives – housekeeping was not properlz ruled