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1. Concepts and definitions
1.1 Concepts
To fully understand the concepts of risk situations, emergency plans and crisis management, you need to understand the following concepts:
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Danger, issues, risk and accidents
Hazard refers to the intrinsic capacity of a situation to cause a harmful effect (a toxic product, fire, etc.). For a risk to exist, the hazard must be a potential source of damage to a stake (human, environmental, material). Risk is therefore the result of an ability to reason about the foreseeable consequences of a hazard in the future.
An event with proven damage, or consequences, on a stake (again, human, environmental or material) is called an "accident". Note that the term "accident" generally refers...
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Regulatory context
Bibliography
Websites
Legifrance, the public website for the dissemination of law:
http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/
Regulatory information site on industrial environmental law, developed at the request of the Ministry of the Environment:
...Standards and norms
- Occupational Health and Safety. - OHSAS BS 18001 - 2007
- Guidelines for the implementation of OHSAS 18001 : 2007. - OHSAS BS 18002 - 2008
- Management de la qualité. - ISO 9001 - 2008
- Management environnemental. - ISO 14001 - 2004
- Système International d'Évaluation de la Sécurité (ou ISRS 6.0) développé par DNV. - SIES -
- Manuel d'amélioration sécurité des entreprises MASE-UIC développé...
Regulations
Environment Code.
Labour Code.
Decree no. 2007-1557 of November 2, 2007 on basic nuclear installations and the control, in terms of nuclear safety, of the transport of radioactive substances (JOFF no. 255 of November 3, 2007).
Public Health Code.
Circular dated May 10, 2010 summarizing the methodological rules applicable to...
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