Societal Risks Arising from MOD(UK)'s Explosives Storage Facilities

Abstract

The Ministry of Defence in the United Kingdom (MOD(UK)), is well aware of the increasing demand for public accountability, and the need to explain its activities to interested parties (stakeholders). Comparison is required between hazardous activities performed by MOD(UK), and more familiar hazards elsewhere. Procedures are reasonably well developed for the estimation of risks to an individual, both for the workforce and members of the general public, but we are less content with arrangements for estimating and managing risks to exposed groups of people. This paper is intended to publish some recent work by MOD(UK) on societal risk from its explosives storage activities, and to comment on the various methods we have used to arrange risks in order of importance.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA516928

Entities

People

  • D. J. Hewkin
  • R. A. Drake
  • V. J. Gill

Organizations

  • Ministry of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Counter IED
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Accidents
  • Buildings And Structures
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Data Sets
  • Death
  • Distribution Curves
  • Distribution Functions
  • Explosions
  • Explosives
  • Fatalities
  • Frequency
  • Hazards
  • Resource Management
  • Risk
  • Risk Analysis
  • United Kingdom

Readers

  • Aviation Safety Risk Assessment.
  • European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP).
  • Research Science/Academic Research