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Safety, environmental and risk management related to Covid-19
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The year 2020 will be remembered for the start of the Covid-19 global pandemic and will emerge as a great source of change in the safety community. In fact, in March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic state and the Covid-19 pandemic continues across the globe, with, at the time of writing, over 414 million cases and with over 5.8 million fatalities reported across all countries and territories (WHO, 2022). Alongside this, developing advanced techniques to enhance process safety, minimize environmental impacts and minimize risk under pandemic crises attracted significant attention, especially considering the still continuing emergence in various countries and concern about subsequent waves or even continual Covid-19, notwithstanding vaccine development. The evolution of the current pandemic is still affected by an extreme uncertainty connected to many unknown unknowns, allowing future challenges in research covering many topics, such as risk assessment of the impacts of a pandemic on the safe operation of process plants, including risks of shutdown and start-up under pandemic conditions, re-purposing process plants for responses to pandemics, cross-fertilization from different industrial sectors and trans-disciplinary approaches to personnel and process safety. Relevant research issues also include potential risks to the environment due to changes in monitoring, enforcement measures and activities as well as novel technologies and approaches for the mitigation of environmental impacts of Covid-19.
Bruno Fabiano、Mark Hailwood、Philip Thomas DUniversity of Bristol, Faculty of Engineering, Bristol, United Kingdom
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University of Genoa, DICCA-Department of Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Genoa, Italy
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