(78f) EVALUATION of Normative Barriers through the Mads/Mosar Methodology

During the past 30 years, safety and environmental topics have moved up on the list of society's significant concerns. Administrations and regulatory bodies have to publish rules for the protection of the public, decide whether to authorize the use of a chemical product or the construction of a new plant, limit the environmental impact, regulate waste disposal, etc. All these rules i.e. the legislative, normative and procedural corpus of a country, a state, a city or a factory can be designate to a barrier function. These barriers are indispensable and can play an important role in industrial safety management. In the developed countries, the growth during the past few years in the number of laws directed at regulating environmental and safety aspects in industry is well known to everyone. And we consider that the definition, classification and performance of the legislative and normative barriers definitely allows the management of technological risks to perform a risk reduction in order to enhance his acceptability in a regional context and permits, for a group of events, the identification of the flux of danger. We applied a systemic risk analysis methodology (MADS/MOSAR methodology) to Colombian industrial sectors and analyzed the current Colombian legislation link with three scenarios (a technological accident with an explosion, an occupational risk and a landscape alteration caused by a post-exploitation scenario). In fine, we can generate a global panorama of the different existing instruments allowing future management opportunities. Our analysis results propose a point of view, which could be useful for a local government or a whole national system to evaluate or improve the risk legislative and normative barriers. This modeling can, of course, being applied to other countries and other industrial sectors.