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Giuseppa Ancione is a post-doc researcher at the University of Messina (Italy); she received her Ph.D. degree in “Industrial Engineering” at the University of Pisa (Italy) in 2015 and her master’s degree in “Territorial Risk Management” at the University of Messina in 2010. Since 2015, she has received several fellowships for research activities in the field of prevention of major industrial risks. She was temporary professor of “Geographical Information Systems” for two years (2019-2020) for civil engineers at the University of Messina. Currently, her research activity focuses on identifying indicators and tools to reduce and manage the risks for establishments at major accident hazard due to emerging factors.
In the last decades, the frequency and severity of Natural-Technological events (i.e., industrial accidents triggered by natural phenomena or Na-Techs) increased. These could be more severe than simple technological accidents because the natural phenomenon could cause the prevention/mitigation/emergency systems fail. The dynamic assessment of the risk associated with these events is essential for a more effective prevention and mitigation of the consequences and emergency preparation. The main goal of this study is the development of a fast and dynamic tool for the risk manager. An approach supporting the management of the consequence is presented. It is based on the definition of a risk-related index, presented in the form of a discrete variable that combines frequency and magnitude of the events and other factors contributing to the worsening of Na-Tech. A properly designed Geographical Information System (GIS) allows the collection and processing of territorial information with the aim to create new data contributing to the quantification of the Na-Tech risk index. A Bayesian network has been built which efficiently lends in including within the model multiple elements with a direct or indirect impact on the distribution of risk levels. By means of this approach, a dynamic updating of the risk index is made. The proposed approach has been applied to an Italian case-study.
Giuseppa Ancione; Maria Milazzo. The Management of Na-Tech Risk Using Bayesian Network. Water 2021, 13, 1966 .
AMA StyleGiuseppa Ancione, Maria Milazzo. The Management of Na-Tech Risk Using Bayesian Network. Water. 2021; 13 (14):1966.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGiuseppa Ancione; Maria Milazzo. 2021. "The Management of Na-Tech Risk Using Bayesian Network." Water 13, no. 14: 1966.
The European Directive on Safety and Health at Work and the following normatives have the scope to provide high levels of health and safety at work, based on some general principles managing activities and including the risk assessment to continuously improve processes and workplaces. However, the working area changes and brings new risks and challenges for workers. Several of them are associated with new technologies, which determine complex human–machine interactions, leading to an increased mental and emotional strain. To reduce these emerging risks, their understanding and assessment are important. Although great efforts have already been made, there is still a lack of conceptual frameworks for analytically assessing human–machine interaction. This paper proposes a systematic approach that, beyond including the classification in domains to explain the complexity of the human–machine interaction, accounts for the information processing of the human brain. Its validation is shown in a major accident hazard industry where a smart safety device supporting crane related operations is used. The investigation is based on the construction of a questionnaire for the collection of answers about the feeling of crane operators when using the device and the evaluation of the Cronbach's alpha to measure of the reliability of the assessment.
Maria Milazzo; Giuseppa Ancione; Giancarlo Consolo. Human Factors Modelling Approach: Application to a Safety Device Supporting Crane Operations in Major Hazard Industries. Sustainability 2021, 13, 2304 .
AMA StyleMaria Milazzo, Giuseppa Ancione, Giancarlo Consolo. Human Factors Modelling Approach: Application to a Safety Device Supporting Crane Operations in Major Hazard Industries. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (4):2304.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMaria Milazzo; Giuseppa Ancione; Giancarlo Consolo. 2021. "Human Factors Modelling Approach: Application to a Safety Device Supporting Crane Operations in Major Hazard Industries." Sustainability 13, no. 4: 2304.
The oil and gas sector is one of the most dangerous and stringent workplaces, due to the hazardousness of materials involved as well as the critical tasks that workers have to perform. Cranes are widely used in this sector for several activities. A wrong load lifting or handling often is due to a limited visibility of working area and could bring to severe accidental scenarios, for this reason safety of these operations becomes of paramount importance. The use of safety devices, that provide an augmented vision to the crane-operator, is essential to avoid potential accidents, moreover risk analysis could benefit from the acquisition of real time information about the process. This work aims to extrapolate and adapt dynamic risk assessment concepts for crane-related operations of a typical oil and gas industry by means of the support of safety devices. To achieve this objective, a set of risk indicators, reporting continuous information about the operations that are carried out, will be defined; successively, a technique of aggregation of these indicators will also be applied with the aim to update the frequency of critical events by a proper Risk Metric Reduction Factor that accounts for the effect of the use of safety barriers.
Giuseppa Ancione; Nicola Paltrinieri; Maria Francesca Milazzo. Integrating Real-Time Monitoring Data in Risk Assessment for Crane Related Offshore Operations. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 2020, 8, 532 .
AMA StyleGiuseppa Ancione, Nicola Paltrinieri, Maria Francesca Milazzo. Integrating Real-Time Monitoring Data in Risk Assessment for Crane Related Offshore Operations. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 2020; 8 (7):532.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGiuseppa Ancione; Nicola Paltrinieri; Maria Francesca Milazzo. 2020. "Integrating Real-Time Monitoring Data in Risk Assessment for Crane Related Offshore Operations." Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 8, no. 7: 532.
Currently, there is an increasing attention towards ageing of industrial equipment, as the phenomenon has been recognised as a cause of severe accidents, recorded in the last years in many process establishments. Recent studies described ageing through a number of key-factors affecting the phenomenon by accelerating or slowing it down. The Italian Competent Authority for the prevention of chemical accidents (Seveso III Directive) adopted a short-cut method, accounting for the assessment of these factors, to evaluate the adequateness of ageing management during inspections at Seveso sites. In this paper, a Bayesian Network was developed, by using the data gathered during the first application of the short-cut method, with the aim to verify the robustness of the approach for ageing assessment and the validity of the a priori assumptions used in assessing the key-factors. The structure of the Bayesian network was established by using experts’ knowledge, whereas the Counting Learning algorithm was adopted to execute the parameter learning by means of the software Netica. The results showed that this network could effectively explore the complex logical and uncertain relationships amongst factors affecting equipment ageing. Results of the present study were exploited to improve the short-cut method.
Giuseppa Ancione; Paolo Bragatto; Maria Francesca Milazzo. A Bayesian network-based approach for the assessment and management of ageing in major hazard establishments. Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries 2020, 64, 104080 .
AMA StyleGiuseppa Ancione, Paolo Bragatto, Maria Francesca Milazzo. A Bayesian network-based approach for the assessment and management of ageing in major hazard establishments. Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries. 2020; 64 ():104080.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGiuseppa Ancione; Paolo Bragatto; Maria Francesca Milazzo. 2020. "A Bayesian network-based approach for the assessment and management of ageing in major hazard establishments." Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries 64, no. : 104080.
In recent years, new risk analysis approaches have been developed to be applied in major hazard establishments. Amongst these, approaches associated with the overall concept of dynamic risk are the most relevant. The main reason for the diffusion of Dynamics Risk Analysis (DRA) is the need to integrate new notions, accounting for dynamics of phenomena and information on system changes over the time and/or the impact of innovative technologies, within risk assessment procedures. DRA approaches are particularly useful when assessing the risk due to the lifting of load, especially when hazardous substances are handled or in major hazard industries. The reason is the potential for loss of containment, which could be followed by catastrophic scenarios (such as fires, explosions and toxic dispersions). When carrying out a crane operation, a common hazardous situation, leading to accidents, is associated with the hindered view of the workspace for the crane-operator. At this regard, a recently developed real-time monitoring tool, named Visual Guidance System (VGS), can be used to assist the worker during the load lifting. It gives back an alarm, when a potential impact between the handled load and any obstacle in the workspace is occurring. Data’s collection, through the feedback provided by the VGS, allows deriving appropriate indicators correlated to the safety of crane operations in chemical industry. These indicators are continuously updated; therefore, they are useful parameters to be integrated within DRAs. This work aims at the definition of risk indicators for lifting and handling operations; the methodology to derive such indicators is described and an application is also given.
Giuseppa Ancione; MariaFrancesca Milazzo; Nicola Paltrinieri. Risk indicators for safety performance assessment of crane-operations in the chemical industry. Safety and Reliability – Safe Societies in a Changing World 2018, 2751 -2759.
AMA StyleGiuseppa Ancione, MariaFrancesca Milazzo, Nicola Paltrinieri. Risk indicators for safety performance assessment of crane-operations in the chemical industry. Safety and Reliability – Safe Societies in a Changing World. 2018; ():2751-2759.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGiuseppa Ancione; MariaFrancesca Milazzo; Nicola Paltrinieri. 2018. "Risk indicators for safety performance assessment of crane-operations in the chemical industry." Safety and Reliability – Safe Societies in a Changing World , no. : 2751-2759.
The Directive Seveso III points towards the introduction of plans for a safe management of ageing of critical facilities at major-risk. Such plans have to cover all phases of the life cycle of the equipment and take into account current deterioration mechanisms (i.e. internal and external corrosion, erosion, thermal and mechanical fatigue, etc.). Due to this requirement, there is a need of procedures to check the equipment conditions, especially at the final stages of its life cycle, and evaluate the adequateness of actions for its control. Currently, managers adopt Risk-Based Inspection (RBI) standards, nevertheless it is essential to demonstrate the integration of ageing management within the overall management of major hazard plants. This paper discusses the adequateness of the measures, usually adopted to control the ageing phenomenon in primary containment equipment, whose deterioration could generate a major accident. In order to evaluate the status of such items, a shortcut method has been developed. It represents a first attempt to develop a tool for ageing monitoring. The first release of the method is static and appropriate for independent auditors and inspectors acting on behalf of Seveso Authorities. The second release, which is currently under development, is considered dynamic as information about process variables, external data, inspection information and etc. are continuously collected and processed, in order to provide an overall picture of the ageing of systems in a form of an index. These indexes allow the realtime forecasting of the equipment deterioration process and its management based on the industrial risk acceptance levels. The core of the method is a dynamic model of the strengths that accelerate the degradation processes and factors that slow down them. Based on this model a “digital twin” of a complex plant can be built, by integrating smart sensors and other smart devices.
MariaFrancesca Milazzo; Giuseppa Ancione; G. Scionti; P.A. Bragatto. Assessment and management of ageing of critical equipment at seveso sites. Safety and Reliability – Safe Societies in a Changing World 2018, 1629 -1636.
AMA StyleMariaFrancesca Milazzo, Giuseppa Ancione, G. Scionti, P.A. Bragatto. Assessment and management of ageing of critical equipment at seveso sites. Safety and Reliability – Safe Societies in a Changing World. 2018; ():1629-1636.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMariaFrancesca Milazzo; Giuseppa Ancione; G. Scionti; P.A. Bragatto. 2018. "Assessment and management of ageing of critical equipment at seveso sites." Safety and Reliability – Safe Societies in a Changing World , no. : 1629-1636.
Emissions due to ship-loading of hydrocarbons are currently not addressed neither by the Directive on the integrated pollution prevention or by other environmental regulations. The scope of this study is to point towards the environmental and safety concerns associated with such emissions, even if proper attention has not been given to this issue until now. In order to achieve this goal, the modelling of the emission volatile organic compounds (VOC), due to ship-load operations at refineries has been made by means of the definition of a simulation procedure which includes a proper treatment of the hours of calm. Afterwards, a quantitative analysis of VOC dispersion for an Italian case-study is presented with the primary aims: (i) to develop and verify the validity of the approach for the modelling of the emission sources and of the diffusion of these contaminants into the atmosphere by a proper treatment of the hours of calm and (ii) to identify their contribution to the total VOC emitted in a typical refinery. The calculated iso-concentration contours have also been drawn on a map and allowed the identification of critical areas for people protecting by the adoption of abatement solutions.
Maria Francesca Milazzo; Giuseppa Ancione; Roberto Lisi. Emissions of volatile organic compounds during the ship-loading of petroleum products: Dispersion modelling and environmental concerns. Journal of Environmental Management 2017, 204, 637 -650.
AMA StyleMaria Francesca Milazzo, Giuseppa Ancione, Roberto Lisi. Emissions of volatile organic compounds during the ship-loading of petroleum products: Dispersion modelling and environmental concerns. Journal of Environmental Management. 2017; 204 ():637-650.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMaria Francesca Milazzo; Giuseppa Ancione; Roberto Lisi. 2017. "Emissions of volatile organic compounds during the ship-loading of petroleum products: Dispersion modelling and environmental concerns." Journal of Environmental Management 204, no. : 637-650.
Giuseppa Ancione; I Kavasidis; M Milazzo; Marko Čepin; Radim Briš. Improving safety of crane-related operations in chemical industry by the support of a real-time computer-aided visual guidance system. Safety and Reliability – Theory and Applications 2017, 256 -256.
AMA StyleGiuseppa Ancione, I Kavasidis, M Milazzo, Marko Čepin, Radim Briš. Improving safety of crane-related operations in chemical industry by the support of a real-time computer-aided visual guidance system. Safety and Reliability – Theory and Applications. 2017; ():256-256.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGiuseppa Ancione; I Kavasidis; M Milazzo; Marko Čepin; Radim Briš. 2017. "Improving safety of crane-related operations in chemical industry by the support of a real-time computer-aided visual guidance system." Safety and Reliability – Theory and Applications , no. : 256-256.
Giuseppa Ancione; I Kavasidis; Giovanni Merlino; MariaFrancesca Milazzo. Real-time guidance system for cranes to manage risks due to releases of hazardous materials. Risk, Reliability and Safety: Innovating Theory and Practice 2016, 742 -749.
AMA StyleGiuseppa Ancione, I Kavasidis, Giovanni Merlino, MariaFrancesca Milazzo. Real-time guidance system for cranes to manage risks due to releases of hazardous materials. Risk, Reliability and Safety: Innovating Theory and Practice. 2016; ():742-749.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGiuseppa Ancione; I Kavasidis; Giovanni Merlino; MariaFrancesca Milazzo. 2016. "Real-time guidance system for cranes to manage risks due to releases of hazardous materials." Risk, Reliability and Safety: Innovating Theory and Practice , no. : 742-749.
M Milazzo; Giuseppa Ancione; R Lisi. A simplified GIS-based tool for the environmental human health risk assessment in complex sites. Safety and Reliability of Complex Engineered Systems 2015, 3507 -3514.
AMA StyleM Milazzo, Giuseppa Ancione, R Lisi. A simplified GIS-based tool for the environmental human health risk assessment in complex sites. Safety and Reliability of Complex Engineered Systems. 2015; ():3507-3514.
Chicago/Turabian StyleM Milazzo; Giuseppa Ancione; R Lisi. 2015. "A simplified GIS-based tool for the environmental human health risk assessment in complex sites." Safety and Reliability of Complex Engineered Systems , no. : 3507-3514.
Giuseppa Ancione; M Milazzo; G Maschio. An overview of the methodologies to investigate on Na-Tech events triggered by volcanic ash fallouts. Safety and Reliability of Complex Engineered Systems 2015, 4241 -4249.
AMA StyleGiuseppa Ancione, M Milazzo, G Maschio. An overview of the methodologies to investigate on Na-Tech events triggered by volcanic ash fallouts. Safety and Reliability of Complex Engineered Systems. 2015; ():4241-4249.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGiuseppa Ancione; M Milazzo; G Maschio. 2015. "An overview of the methodologies to investigate on Na-Tech events triggered by volcanic ash fallouts." Safety and Reliability of Complex Engineered Systems , no. : 4241-4249.
In this last decade, worldwide attention has been focused on the hazards derived from the interaction between extreme natural phenomena and critical infrastructures and/or chemical and process industry (natural–technological hazards or Na-Tech). Due to the recent occurrence of significant events, great attention has also been given to Na-Tech hazards triggered by volcanic eruptions; in particular, the eruption of the Icelandic volcano alarmed the European community due to the ash fallout over the continent, which caused significant problems for the population, road, rail and air traffic and production activities. This study aims at defining a procedure for the representation of the vulnerability of industrial facilities to potential volcanic ash fallouts. Its implementation on a Geographical Information System has also been executed and a semi-automatic procedure for the vulnerability mapping has been constructed.
Giuseppa Ancione; Ernesto Salzano; Giuseppe Maschio; Maria Francesca Milazzo. A GIS-based tool for the management of industrial accidents triggered by volcanic ash fallouts. Journal of Risk Research 2014, 19, 212 -232.
AMA StyleGiuseppa Ancione, Ernesto Salzano, Giuseppe Maschio, Maria Francesca Milazzo. A GIS-based tool for the management of industrial accidents triggered by volcanic ash fallouts. Journal of Risk Research. 2014; 19 (2):212-232.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGiuseppa Ancione; Ernesto Salzano; Giuseppe Maschio; Maria Francesca Milazzo. 2014. "A GIS-based tool for the management of industrial accidents triggered by volcanic ash fallouts." Journal of Risk Research 19, no. 2: 212-232.
The recent eruption of the Icelandic volcano has focused the worldwide attention on volcanic ash effects for the population, road, rail and air traffic and production activities. This paper aims to study of technological (industrial) accidental scenarios triggered by ash fallout and, more specifically, to define and quantify the potential damage on filtration systems. Malfunctions due to the filter clogging and service interruptions caused by the rupture of the filtering surface have been analysed in order to define the vulnerability of the equipment to such damages. Results are given in terms of threshold values of deposit on the filtering surface and exceedance probability curves of ash concentrations and the duration of the ash emission. This data can be easily implemented in the standard risk assessment with the aim to include the estimation of Natural-Technological (Na-Tech) hazards.
Maria Francesca Milazzo; Giuseppa Ancione; Ernesto Salzano; Giuseppe Maschio. Risks associated with volcanic ash fallout from Mt.Etna with reference to industrial filtration systems. Reliability Engineering & System Safety 2013, 120, 106 -110.
AMA StyleMaria Francesca Milazzo, Giuseppa Ancione, Ernesto Salzano, Giuseppe Maschio. Risks associated with volcanic ash fallout from Mt.Etna with reference to industrial filtration systems. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 2013; 120 ():106-110.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMaria Francesca Milazzo; Giuseppa Ancione; Ernesto Salzano; Giuseppe Maschio. 2013. "Risks associated with volcanic ash fallout from Mt.Etna with reference to industrial filtration systems." Reliability Engineering & System Safety 120, no. : 106-110.
Giuseppa Ancione; MariaFrancesca Milazzo; Ernesto Salzano; Giuseppe Maschio. A GIS-tool for the vulnerability mapping of industrial facilities potentially exposed to volcanic Na-Tech events. Safety, Reliability and Risk Analysis 2013, 1881 -1888.
AMA StyleGiuseppa Ancione, MariaFrancesca Milazzo, Ernesto Salzano, Giuseppe Maschio. A GIS-tool for the vulnerability mapping of industrial facilities potentially exposed to volcanic Na-Tech events. Safety, Reliability and Risk Analysis. 2013; ():1881-1888.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGiuseppa Ancione; MariaFrancesca Milazzo; Ernesto Salzano; Giuseppe Maschio. 2013. "A GIS-tool for the vulnerability mapping of industrial facilities potentially exposed to volcanic Na-Tech events." Safety, Reliability and Risk Analysis , no. : 1881-1888.
The phenomenon of volcanic fallout ash from Mt. Etna in Sicily (Italy) is well known and frequent in recent years, as in the period 2001–2004. As a consequence, significant problems for the population, road, rail and air traffic and production activities have occurred. The industrial areas of Catania and Augusta-Priolo, located in south eastern Sicily, might be involved during particular weather conditions. This paper aims at determining the potential scenarios of damage to industrial facilities caused by volcanic ash fallout. The work has been focused on the study of both fixed and floating roof storage tanks, containing flammable liquids, and examines extreme failures damage causing the greatest loss of containment for these facilities. To include scenarios arising from natural phenomena (Na-Tech events) in the standard risk assessment procedure, the estimation of the vulnerability of these facilities is necessary. The study has been applied to the area surrounding Mt. Etna, and the procedure can also be extended to other case studies.
Maria Francesca Milazzo; Giuseppa Ancione; Anna Basco; David George Lister; Ernesto Salzano; Giuseppe Maschio. Potential loading damage to industrial storage tanks due to volcanic ash fallout. Natural Hazards 2012, 66, 939 -953.
AMA StyleMaria Francesca Milazzo, Giuseppa Ancione, Anna Basco, David George Lister, Ernesto Salzano, Giuseppe Maschio. Potential loading damage to industrial storage tanks due to volcanic ash fallout. Natural Hazards. 2012; 66 (2):939-953.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMaria Francesca Milazzo; Giuseppa Ancione; Anna Basco; David George Lister; Ernesto Salzano; Giuseppe Maschio. 2012. "Potential loading damage to industrial storage tanks due to volcanic ash fallout." Natural Hazards 66, no. 2: 939-953.
MariaFrancesca Milazzo; Giuseppa Ancione; A Basco; Ernesto Salzano; Giuseppe Maschio. Industrial hazards associated with the eruption of Etna. Advances in Safety, Reliability and Risk Management 2011, 2945 -2952.
AMA StyleMariaFrancesca Milazzo, Giuseppa Ancione, A Basco, Ernesto Salzano, Giuseppe Maschio. Industrial hazards associated with the eruption of Etna. Advances in Safety, Reliability and Risk Management. 2011; ():2945-2952.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMariaFrancesca Milazzo; Giuseppa Ancione; A Basco; Ernesto Salzano; Giuseppe Maschio. 2011. "Industrial hazards associated with the eruption of Etna." Advances in Safety, Reliability and Risk Management , no. : 2945-2952.
This paper focuses attention on emergency management associated with a terrorist attack in the transport of hazardous materials in urban areas. The case study is in an urban area, a potential target for terrorist attacks due to its high vulnerability. Since it is not possible to predict where and when an attack will occur, the risk associated with terrorism is complex. It is only possible to identify the critical points for potential actions where counter measure must be applied. In the case of incidents which evolve relatively slowly, mitigation actions can be applied. The use of dynamic geoevents permits the immediate location of the event on a georeferenced map and the possibility of having a dynamic evolution of the scenario and of the number of people involved. The dynamic scenario has been created using the output of a consequence simulation code and a GIS software. Some assumptions were necessary but, since the aim of the paper is to define the procedure for the construction of the dynamic geoevent, these can be considered acceptable. The method will be further implemented in future
Maria Francesca Milazzo; Giuseppa Ancione; Roberto Lisi; Chiara Vianello; Giuseppe Maschio. Risk management of terrorist attacks in the transport of hazardous materials using dynamic geoevents. Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries 2009, 22, 625 -633.
AMA StyleMaria Francesca Milazzo, Giuseppa Ancione, Roberto Lisi, Chiara Vianello, Giuseppe Maschio. Risk management of terrorist attacks in the transport of hazardous materials using dynamic geoevents. Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries. 2009; 22 (5):625-633.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMaria Francesca Milazzo; Giuseppa Ancione; Roberto Lisi; Chiara Vianello; Giuseppe Maschio. 2009. "Risk management of terrorist attacks in the transport of hazardous materials using dynamic geoevents." Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries 22, no. 5: 625-633.