Abstract
The trend of companies focusing ever stronger on their core businesses has led to outsourcing of certain activities, e.g. maintenance, and even to selling out parts of industrial plants. This is the case also in Finland. Clusters of neighbouring companies, commonly called industrial parks, have been formed. In these multi-company parks safety and environmental responsibilities are not always clear and the risk map has changed. It has become evident that Finnish legislation has not followed this development of the industrial sector and the formation of industrial and technology parks. A Finnish project on the safety in chemical industrial parks has studied how safety and environmental issues can be best managed in multi-company chemical parks, and how the current legislation in Finland supports companies facing problems accentuated in or specific to industrial parks. The outcome outlines the identified challenges as well as the benefits of cooperation between the independent companies in industrial parks.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 430-435 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Safety Science |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Apr 2010 |
| MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Funding
The original research has been conducted in cooperation with the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Law, and especially with Ms Hanna Leppäaho (Master of Laws) and Professor Raimo Lahti, whose advice has been thankfully acknowledged. The active participation of the companies in the industrial parks in Laukaa, Parainen and Pori is gratefully acknowledged. Also Neste Oil Oyj’s oil refinery in Naantali, Harjavalta industrial park, and Kokkola Industrial Park are thanked for the possibility to study their safety solutions. The funding from the Finnish Work Environment Fund and other contributors is gratefully acknowledged.
Keywords
- Changing risk map
- Industrial park
- Risk management in industrial park