Results of survey among SEVESO establishments in the Slovak Republic

Dynamical development of technologies is a result of man's desire to achieve higher living standard. The modern technologies are becoming still more complicated and may lead to industrial accidents. Slovak republic has its own history of industrial accidents. Risk management activities and spending of funds to prevent major industrial accidents is far from being popular among public and government unless some crisis event occurs. Safety in industrial plants is being improved and modified as a result of growing number of industrial accidents. Implementation of SEVESO II directive in EU member countries is fundamental for serious industrial accidents prevention. The need for risk assessment and management is supported also by the investigations on the European but also on national level. In this paper the selected conclusions which affect the adoption and adaptation of the legal environment in the Slovak Republic are based on a statistical research realized during 2012-2013 in the framework of the MOPORI project. Based on the results achieved in the framework of the statistical survey, the results were implemented in the Comprehensive Model for the Risk Assessment and Management of the Industrial Processes. The issue was to insert the methods to individual steps of the comprehensive model which were implemented into the model on the basis of the legal requirements and results of the survey. The analysis of the questionnaire yielded some interesting conclusions which have not been included in this paper, not only due to its extent, but also due to the need to bring the results the attention of as wide a group of readers as possible and maintain its consistency and clarity. These unpublished results will be used as the base for achieving further goals of the MOPORI project.