Guide to 'External safety' section

External safety deals with the risks affecting local residents caused by air traffic and by the production, the use, the storage and the transport of dangerous substances. The types of companies covered by external safety policy include: airports, railway marshalling yards, LPG stations and large chemical companies. This is not just a question of the locations of the companies themselves but also of transportation to and from those locations.

Index External safety

• External safety risks: the risk of an accident (introduction)
  An introduction to external safety with an explanation of risks, causes and policy.
• Sources of risk in the Netherlands, 1999
• Local risk in the Netherlands, 2001
  The area in the Netherlands where the standard for local risk is exceeded as a result of the presence of high-risk companies. The number of people in these various areas at risk of an accident with fatal consequences.
• Exceedance of standard for group risk in the Netherlands, 1999
• Group risk: The probability of a disaster in the Netherlands by branch, 2001
• External safety risks around Schiphol airport, 1990-2001
  The number of homes and inhabitants and the area exposed to unacceptable risks because of Schiphol (the local risk). In addition, the probability of a disaster has been calculated for ten and 100 deaths respectively (the group risk).
• Risks from potential accidents at European nuclear power plants, 2000
• Risks in the Netherlands from European nuclear power plants, 1960-2000
  Changes over the course of 40 years in the risks caused in the Netherlands by European nuclear power plants, broken down into Eastern and Western European plants.

Schiphol: Safety around Schiphol

Noise nuisance caused by air traffic, and the safety risks of Schiphol, have been the subject of occasionally heated public debate for years. How are these complex problems related? And how is the government trying to tackle them? An interactive atlas designed for the Internet allows everybody to understand the noise and risk policy for Schiphol.

Relevant sections and indicators in the Environmental Data Compendium

• Guide to 'Enforcement and implementation' section
• Municipal disaster plans, 2000 (page is not available yet)
• Inclusion of the transportation of dangerous substances in zoning plans in the Netherlands, 1999-2002
• Dutch companies obliged to produce safety reports, 2001
• Dutch companies at risk of severe accidents, 2001