transport of dangerous goods and risk management - Kirilo Savić

TRANSPORT OF DANGEROUS GOODS AND RISK MANAGEMENT 34The special importance of the suggested solution is its ability to be used in an equally reliable way for developingrespective information systems in the transport sector (for special types, multimodal as well), energy sector,industry (for managing production processes, raw materials and waste), civil sector (health, public transport, etc.),public order sector (the police, the army, judiciary, civil defence) and the supply sector, which are the entitiesimportant for emergency situation management. The proposed solution, by its features and architecture, makespossible the integration of all elements and entities – participants in the proactive response to the accidentalsituation and their interdepartmental coordination, that is, the establishment of an integrated information system tomeet the needs of Serbian National Disaster Center.With the help of Sledat system, interdepartmental resources activation and monitoring the cooperation of allparticipants in the field is easily achieved, as well as the monitoring of retreat operations after the completion ofactivities of repairing the damage of the accident on the river or on the ground. The greatest operational contributionof Sledat system is the shorter response time in accidental situations and more successful participants’ response inemergency situations. The advantage of this system is the possibility of statistical analyses that can be used topredict the costs of possible accident and cost analysis after emergency situations.Because of the possibility of monitoring resources in real time and space, response costs in accidental situations arereduced, control of material and human resources engaged in the proactive response is increased, risk and scope ofconsequences is reduced.For the development of the stated system of a river accident early warning and the possibility of its application as apart of the existing system elements in The Republic of Serbia were used relevant data about the state ofinfrastructural, material and human resources, obtained by the researchers of ‘Kirilo Savic’ Institute during theimplementation of national project for the development of a system for notification and management in case of achemical accident. It is also important that, as a part of the mentioned NIP (National Investment Plan) project 24 , allavailable equipment has been filed and the analysis on the state of the equipment was done. In addition to that, theprocedures used by some of intervention and rescue units during the proactive response to the accident have beendescribed, and some procedures not encompassed by the present management system have been proposed.It all significantly reduces the time for establishment of the integrated information system for National DisasterManagement Centre of the Republic of Serbia, in case that relevant state authorities show interest inimplementation of results obtained within the projects conducted by the researchers and experts of “Kirilo Savic”Institute, under consortium cooperation with the national and foreign experts.And more so, since integral system Sledat enables the projection of the rescue units activities with the aim ofobtaining information on possible radii of action, in accordance with the state of infrastructure and equipment and inaccordance with other important parameters such as: the time of access to the site of accident, capacity of humanresources, endurance of equipment, arrival of people and equipment to the site of accident and return from the site.The projection of procedures compatibility indicates the real possibilities of field cooperation.Efficiency analysis, i.e. listing and test projections provide the information on the adequacy of the number andgeographic distribution of resources, human resources and equipment. By means of exchange of information on thetraining and testing the knowledge of human resources, the possibility of safe and efficient cooperation ofintervention teams is monitored and adjusted. It defines the needs for adjustment of present procedures as well asfor the establishment of new procedures in the places where requirements for operation and interaction have not yetbeen fulfilled.A significant part of all procedures for resolving accidents relies on the information on the management ofdangerous substances that have caused the accident.