Canada
Denmark
France
Germany
Hungary
United Kingdom
United States
International Organisations
Other Organisations

 

Canada

Environment Canada, Environmental Emergencies - http://www.ec.gc.ca/ee-ue/whats_new/whats_new_e.asp

Emergency Preparedness Canada - http://www.psepc-sppcc.gc.ca/

Denmark

Danish Emergency Management Agency - http://www.beredskabsstyrelsen.dk/uk/

Danish Emergency Management Agencys special site on Chemical alert - http://kemi.brs.dk/
This site is only available in Danish. The information on this site is covered broadly by the above mentioned link.

France

Banque de données et d’information sur les accidents technologiques : Analyse Recherche et Information sur les Accidents (ARIA)
http://www.aria.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/

Ministère de l’Écologie, du développement durable, des transports et du logement : Risques technologiques et transport de matières dangereuses – Installations Classées pour la Protection de l’Environnement (ICPE) – La gestion du retour d’expérience par le BARPI.
http://www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/-Risques-technologiques-et-.html

Germany

The Federal Environment Agency: Umweltbundesamt  (UBA)
http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/index-e.htm

Plant safety, accident prevention, dealing with environmentally hazardous substances: http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/nachhaltige-produktion-anlagensicherheit-e/anlagen/index.html

The aim of the Plant Safety and Accident Prevention Section at the German Federal Environment Agency is to prevent, wherever possible, the occurrence of major accidents in installations that handle hazardous substances and to limit the impact on people and the environment of those incidents that nevertheless occur.

ZEMA - http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/zema/eng/index.html
ZEMA is the Central Reporting and Evaluation Office for Hazardous Incidents and Incidents in Process Engineering Facilities (Zentrale Melde- und Auswertestelle für Störfälle und Störungen in verfahrenstechnischen Anlagen - ZEMA) in Germany. ZEMA records, evaluates and publishes in annual reports all events which must be reported to the authorities pursuant to the 12th Federal Immission Control Ordinance. Such reportable events are sub-divided according to their hazard potential into major accidents and disturbance of normal operation. The systematic recording and evaluation of events will provide information which acts as an important basis for a further development of the state of the art of safety technology. Between 1980 and 2000, 336 events were registered in the ZEMA database. Statistical evaluations are available for the period 1991 to 1999.

Hungary

Chief Inspectorate of Technical Safety - http://www.mbf.hu/szakterulet9.html

United Kingdom

Health and Safety Executive - Control of Major Accident Hazards - http://www.hse.gov.uk/comah/

United States

US EPA's Chemical Preparedness and Prevention Office (CEPPO) - http://www.epa.gov/swercepp

The US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) - http://www.fema.gov

INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

European Commission's Emergency Preparedness and Response - http://ec.europa.eu/

Major Accident Hazards Bureau (MAHB) of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission -
http://mahb.jrc.it/

eMARS – Major Accident Reporting system – Database of "major accidents" under Seveso, OECD and UN-ECE managed by the Major Accident Hazards Bureau (MAHB)
http://emars.jrc.ec.europa.eu/
Pan American Health Organization - SUMA Project - http://www.paho.org/english/dd/ped/pedcont.htm

ReliefWeb - A project of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - http://ochaonline.un.org/

World Meterological Organization - Emergency Response Activities - http://www.wmo.ch/web/www/reports/Expert-ERA-0498.html

UNEP Flexible Framework for Addressing Chemical Accident Prevention and Preparedness – A Guidance Document
http://www.unep.fr/scp/sp/saferprod/pdf/UN_Flexible_Framework_WEB_FINAL.pdf

OTHER ORGANISATIONS

The Emergency Preparedness Information Exchange (EPIX) - http://epix.hazard.net/ 

University of Illinois Cooperative Extension Service (CES) Disaster Services - http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/~disaster

The Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder - http://www.colorado.edu/hazards