COMAH New Knowledge on Flammable Hazards

Training Course • Health & Safety Executive

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This course deals with important flammable risks at Major Hazards sites for which new knowledge or guidance has become available recently. It complements the general course 'COMAH onshore major hazards: predictive aspects of COMAH'.The specific risks dealt with include: Assessment of vapour cloud accumulation at very low wind speeds (overfill and spray releases). These conditions account for a very high proportion of major incidents involving flammables .Explosion modelling for large low-lying vapour clouds. Assessment of risks for packaged chemical storage: drum and IBC stores and warehouses.

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