Abstract
Major chemical installations are designed to run for
months without any stoppages. Still, well planned
maintenance shut-downs are needed in order to avoid
unwanted disturbances at the plants. Until now, research
on shutdowns has mainly been focusing on risks caused by
the contractors, while the aim of a study led by VTT was
to investigate, if the safety management systems of the
production companies were such that they ensured the
safety of the contractor workers during shut-downs.
The study was restricted to risks caused by process
chemicals. In a vast majority of cases, process chemicals
are present at the site also during shut-downs and many
times parts of the process plant are still in operation
during the shut-down.
In order to highlight the issue of hazards caused by
process chemicals, the VTT led research project produced
material in Finnish, which is available on the Internet
at seisokki.vtt.fi. The results of the study may in part
or as a whole be taken into use by any organisation
without any charge
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 24-26 |
| Journal | European Agency for Safety and Health at Work: Magazine |
| Issue number | 12 |
| Publication status | Published - 2011 |
| MoE publication type | D1 Article in a trade journal |