The OECD Working Party on Chemical Accidents (WPCA) organised a half-day thematic session at the occasion of its 32nd meeting on 26th October 2022. This thematic session covered two themes: How to make lessons from accidents work? and Challenges and...

Chemical accidents with serious consequences continue to happen in OECD Member countries and worldwide. Over the past decades, successive major accidents have caused deaths, injuries, significant environmental pollution and massive economic losses –...

This second edition of the OECD Guiding Principles for Chemical Accident Prevention, Preparedness and Response is a comprehensive document to help public authorities, industry and communities worldwide prevent and prepare for accidents involving...

Guidance on Safety Performance Indicators provides a systemic approach to measuring the success of stakeholders' chemical safety programmes by detailing targets, activity indicators and outcome indicators.

In June 2023, the OECD organised a seminar series on the Management of Hazardous Substances at Port Areas. The first seminar presented examples from countries on the functioning of their ports with regard to the management of hazardous substances....

This report presents the main generic management system standards (i.e. those MS standards used internationally and across business sectors) with special reference to the chemical industry. It also addresses the potential benefits achievable from...

This Document was designed to serve as a tool to assist industrial enterprises, public authorities, and communities near hazardous installations world-wide develop and implement a means to assess the success of their chemical safety activities.

This Guidance on Developing Safety Performance Indicators (“Guidance on SPI”) was prepared to assist enterprises that wish to implement and/or review Safety Performance Indicator Programmes.

Ownership change potentially affects key elements of safety management and can lead to a change in the management of the risks at a facility, either positively or negatively. Stakeholders involved in an ownership change should be aware of the hazards...

The Guidance on Corporate Governance for Process Safety draws attention to those at the top of industry to the need for high standards of corporate governance in relation to the management of high hazard industries. The Guidance encourages every...

This document presents the outcome from a project that aimed to investigate safety issues related to the prevention of, preparedness for, and response to accidents involving manufactured nanomaterials. This report aims to address potential risks for...

Ageing of hazardous installations has been the subject of increasing attention in the past decade, both by public authorities and industry. Indeed, worldwide, and in particular across OECD countries, many of the currently operating chemical...