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Maria Francesca Milazzo
Department of Engineering, University of Messina, Contrada di Dio, 98166 Messina, Italy

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Journal article
Published: 17 July 2021 in Water
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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.

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Giuseppa Ancione; Maria Milazzo. The Management of Na-Tech Risk Using Bayesian Network. Water 2021, 13, 1966 .

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Giuseppa Ancione, Maria Milazzo. The Management of Na-Tech Risk Using Bayesian Network. Water. 2021; 13 (14):1966.

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Giuseppa Ancione; Maria Milazzo. 2021. "The Management of Na-Tech Risk Using Bayesian Network." Water 13, no. 14: 1966.

Journal article
Published: 03 March 2021 in Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries
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The assessment of the frequencies of release from piping due to losses of containment is an essential step in the preparing Safety Reports, drawn up as required by the so-called “Seveso” Directive. These are usually calculated starting from the frequencies of random rupture included in international databases and are not plant-specific, furthermore, the quantification of the effect of the safety management system of the facility is not easy. A simple and flexible approach quantifying technical and management characteristics of the plant has been proposed by Milazzo and co-workers in 2010; it is based on the modification of the frequency taken from literature, through the use of the percentages of failure causes actually possible in that plant, and the judgment about their management. The data about the failure causes are taken from the literature and modified by using corrective factors to adapt them to the industrial context. To make possible the application of the method to a large number of major-hazard industry types, some aspects of the approach needed to be improved; these have been identified during a development project coordinated by RINA Consulting, on behalf of Saipem, with the collaboration of the University of Messina. The improvement of the approach focused on two main points, the development of a method to calculate the corrective factors for the failure causes associated with corrosion and erosion phenomena and the strengthening of the methodology for the formulation of the judgment about the safety management. This paper illustrates the fully improved method, as well as an application to a typical gas storage plant.

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Maria Francesca Milazzo; Giovanni Uguccioni; Giuliano Malatesta; Roberta Miglionico; Fabrizio Tallone. Assessment of the effect of technical and management characteristics on the frequency of release from piping: An application to a gas storage facility. Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries 2021, 71, 104446 .

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Maria Francesca Milazzo, Giovanni Uguccioni, Giuliano Malatesta, Roberta Miglionico, Fabrizio Tallone. Assessment of the effect of technical and management characteristics on the frequency of release from piping: An application to a gas storage facility. Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries. 2021; 71 ():104446.

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Maria Francesca Milazzo; Giovanni Uguccioni; Giuliano Malatesta; Roberta Miglionico; Fabrizio Tallone. 2021. "Assessment of the effect of technical and management characteristics on the frequency of release from piping: An application to a gas storage facility." Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries 71, no. : 104446.

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Published: 20 February 2021 in Sustainability
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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.

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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 .

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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 (4):2304.

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Maria 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.

Journal article
Published: 18 January 2021 in Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries
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The paper discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Italian chemical and process industries, where Directive 2012/18/EU Seveso III, for the control of Major Accident Hazard (MAH), is enforced. The Safety Management System (SMS) for the control of MAH, which has been mandatory for 20 years in Italian Seveso Establishments, has been highly stressed by the external pressure, related in some way to the COVID-19 pandemic. Fairly, most companies, in particular in oil and gas sectors, have demonstrated an adequate capability to reconcile operation continuity and health requirements. This experience is providing the establishment operators and the regulators with valuable suggestions for the improvements of the SMS-MAH. Within this framework, an innovative organisational resilience model is proposed, aiming at the development of a higher capability to face future new crisis. The current SMS-MAH already includes some basic pillars to enhance resilience, which were valuable during the pandemic crisis, but a full and rationale development is still needed. Starting from the first pandemic phase experience, this paper presents a novel tool to assess the degree of “resilience” of a SMS-MAH. It is based on a questionnaire, featuring 25 questions grouped into eight items, according to the typical SMS-MAH structure. A two level AHP model has been developed in order to define the weights to be assigned to each point. The AHP panel included industrial practitioners, regulators, authorities and researchers. The results are based on the COVID-19 experience and consequently the developed model is tailored to face health emergencies, but the approach may be easily transferred to other external crises.

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Paolo Bragatto; Tomaso Vairo; Maria Francesca Milazzo; Bruno Fabiano. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the safety management in Italian Seveso industries. Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries 2021, 70, 104393 .

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Paolo Bragatto, Tomaso Vairo, Maria Francesca Milazzo, Bruno Fabiano. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the safety management in Italian Seveso industries. Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries. 2021; 70 ():104393.

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Paolo Bragatto; Tomaso Vairo; Maria Francesca Milazzo; Bruno Fabiano. 2021. "The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the safety management in Italian Seveso industries." Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries 70, no. : 104393.

Journal article
Published: 15 December 2020 in Atmospheric Pollution Research
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A significant contribution to Volatile Organic Compounds emissions in refineries and petrochemical plants is given by the ship-loading of hydrocarbons. Nevertheless, the assessment of the health risk associated with these sources of contamination is not widespread because it is currently not addressed neither by the European Directive on the integrated pollution prevention or other environmental regulations. The modelling of the emission and the contaminant transport is a complex issue, and this work aims integrating some common procedures within the approach for the human health risk assessment by means of a Geographical Information System. Its application to a case-study is given to verify the validity of the integrated approach and identify the contribution of VOC emissions of the ship-loading, to the risk associated with the total VOC emitted in a typical refinery. The iso-risk contours have also been drawn to allow the identification of critical areas for people to protect them by the adoption of abatement solutions.

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Giuseppa Ancione; Roberto Lisi; Maria Francesca Milazzo. Human health risk associated with emissions of volatile organic compounds due to the ship-loading of hydrocarbons in refineries. Atmospheric Pollution Research 2020, 12, 432 -442.

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Giuseppa Ancione, Roberto Lisi, Maria Francesca Milazzo. Human health risk associated with emissions of volatile organic compounds due to the ship-loading of hydrocarbons in refineries. Atmospheric Pollution Research. 2020; 12 (2):432-442.

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Giuseppa Ancione; Roberto Lisi; Maria Francesca Milazzo. 2020. "Human health risk associated with emissions of volatile organic compounds due to the ship-loading of hydrocarbons in refineries." Atmospheric Pollution Research 12, no. 2: 432-442.

Journal article
Published: 18 July 2020 in Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
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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.

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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 .

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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 (7):532.

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Giuseppa 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.

Journal article
Published: 21 February 2020 in Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries
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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.

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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 .

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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.

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Giuseppa 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.

Journal article
Published: 21 February 2019 in Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries
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The high complexity of chemical and petrochemical installations determines a complex safety management of these establishments, therefore, there is a need to find innovative solutions to guarantee the prevention of failures and losses of containment from process equipment. In this frame, the use of the API Risk Based Inspection (RBI) assessment approach permits a significant reduction of maintenance costs and, simultaneously, the increase of plant's reliability and availability. To increase the level of industrial safety, a proper selection of measures is also needed, even if the adoption of such measures poses costs. Given that resources for the companies are usually limited, a comparison amongst various solutions has to be done with the aim to find the best one, based on a comparison of costs and benefit. To this scope, recently a software, named Inspection Manager, has been developed by ANTEA and implemented thanks to a cooperation with the University of Padova (Italy). The Inspection Manager provides support in the application of the RBI approach by means of the use of plant-specific data, which are stored in its database; its further implementation, presented in this paper, has made it able to support also cost-benefit analysis and, thus, the selection of measures to be adopted to prevent accidental events causing the release of hazardous materials. A case-study is presented to test the new functionality of the tool; after the identification of the most effective measures, a careful cost-benefit assessment has been executed as a basis for decision-making.

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Chiara Vianello; MariaFrancesca Milazzo; Giuseppe Maschio. Cost–benefit analysis approach for the management of industrial safety in chemical and petrochemical industry. Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries 2019, 58, 116 -123.

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Chiara Vianello, MariaFrancesca Milazzo, Giuseppe Maschio. Cost–benefit analysis approach for the management of industrial safety in chemical and petrochemical industry. Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries. 2019; 58 ():116-123.

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Chiara Vianello; MariaFrancesca Milazzo; Giuseppe Maschio. 2019. "Cost–benefit analysis approach for the management of industrial safety in chemical and petrochemical industry." Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries 58, no. : 116-123.

Journal article
Published: 11 February 2019 in Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries
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In Europe, the Directive 2012/18/EU (Seveso III) strengthens the obligation to adopt a program assuring the integrity of critical equipment at major hazard establishments, by taking into account actual deterioration mechanisms (internal and external corrosion, erosion, thermal and mechanical fatigue, etc.). The program must cover all phases of the lifecycle and ensure a safe ageing of equipment, particularly when these are reaching the final stage of life. The effectiveness of the integrity program must be carefully assessed during the audits planned by the establishment's operator as well as by inspectors on behalf of the Competent Authorities. The adoption of a Risk Based Inspection scheme provides a valuable help to face this matter. The operator is, anyway, required a considerable effort to face at least three issues related to: (i) the understanding of concurring physical and chemical phenomena; (ii) the management of information associated with each individual component and its history, (iii) the appropriate measurement, including acquisition and management of data. There is a considerable difficulty in understanding these issues during Seveso inspections and external audits, because time and resources are often limited. For this reason, models and methods supporting the definition of the ageing status and trend in industrial sites are needed. This paper analyses the main factors affecting ageing. A framework for “ageing” assessment in complex industrial sites, including “Seveso” establishments, is proposed; then, its validation, by means of data collected during a testing phase carried out in Italy, is also given.

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Maria Francesca Milazzo; Paolo Bragatto. A framework addressing a safe ageing management in complex industrial sites: The Italian experience in «Seveso» establishments. Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries 2019, 58, 70 -81.

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Maria Francesca Milazzo, Paolo Bragatto. A framework addressing a safe ageing management in complex industrial sites: The Italian experience in «Seveso» establishments. Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries. 2019; 58 ():70-81.

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Maria Francesca Milazzo; Paolo Bragatto. 2019. "A framework addressing a safe ageing management in complex industrial sites: The Italian experience in «Seveso» establishments." Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries 58, no. : 70-81.

Conference paper
Published: 01 January 2019 in Proceedings of the 29th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL)
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Maria Francesca Milazzo; Giuseppe Scionti; Paolo Bragatto. Estimation of the Equipment Residual Lifetime in Major Hazard Industries by Using a Virtual Sensor. Proceedings of the 29th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL) 2019, 1 .

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Maria Francesca Milazzo, Giuseppe Scionti, Paolo Bragatto. Estimation of the Equipment Residual Lifetime in Major Hazard Industries by Using a Virtual Sensor. Proceedings of the 29th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL). 2019; ():1.

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Maria Francesca Milazzo; Giuseppe Scionti; Paolo Bragatto. 2019. "Estimation of the Equipment Residual Lifetime in Major Hazard Industries by Using a Virtual Sensor." Proceedings of the 29th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL) , no. : 1.

Proceedings article
Published: 15 July 2018 in Volume 7: Operations, Applications, and Components
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Attention to be paid to the aging of industrial facilities has been growing in the last ten years, both by public authorities and industrial executives. Many process plants, operating in Europe, have reached or exceeded their project nominal life and the safe management of aging is an urgent question. Failures, due to aged chemical process plants, cause the release of hazardous materials with severe consequences for people and workers. To counteract this phenomenon, plant operators carry out many technical activities, including non-destructive controls on piping and vessels, by adopting sophisticated methods (e.g. Risk Based Inspection RBI). The European Directive 2012/18/UE (Seveso III) for the control of Major Accident Hazard (MAH) introduced a few requirements for the safe aging of critical equipment, which must be verified during mandatory audits. The aim of this work is to present a synthetic methodology that can be useful for both Seveso auditors and industrial managers for evaluating the adequacy of the measures to control the aging of critical equipment. To achieve a synthetic assessment of the adequacy of the aging management programs, a compensated index method has been developed, which is a simple and easy-to-use tool. The use of an index method inevitably introduces a degree of uncertainty. However, if it is compared to other qualitative methods, such a tool offers the advantage of a major clarity in the assessment process. This paper discusses a practical application of the method within inspection programs, as required by the art. 27 of Seveso III Directive.

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Paolo Bragatto; Corrado Delle Site; Maria Francesca Milazzo; Annalisa Pirone; Maria Rosaria Vallerotonda. Managing Pressure Equipment Aging in Plants With Major Accident Hazard: A Methodology Satisfying the Requirements of the European Directive 2012/18/UE Seveso III. Volume 7: Operations, Applications, and Components 2018, 1 .

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Paolo Bragatto, Corrado Delle Site, Maria Francesca Milazzo, Annalisa Pirone, Maria Rosaria Vallerotonda. Managing Pressure Equipment Aging in Plants With Major Accident Hazard: A Methodology Satisfying the Requirements of the European Directive 2012/18/UE Seveso III. Volume 7: Operations, Applications, and Components. 2018; ():1.

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Paolo Bragatto; Corrado Delle Site; Maria Francesca Milazzo; Annalisa Pirone; Maria Rosaria Vallerotonda. 2018. "Managing Pressure Equipment Aging in Plants With Major Accident Hazard: A Methodology Satisfying the Requirements of the European Directive 2012/18/UE Seveso III." Volume 7: Operations, Applications, and Components , no. : 1.

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Published: 15 June 2018 in Safety and Reliability – Safe Societies in a Changing World
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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.

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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.

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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.

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Giuseppa 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.

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Published: 15 June 2018 in Safety and Reliability – Safe Societies in a Changing World
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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.

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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.

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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.

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MariaFrancesca 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.

Journal article
Published: 10 February 2018 in Reliability Engineering & System Safety
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It is well known that investments in new safety measures do not always give the intended effect, as new safety measures are sometimes offset by behavioural changes. In this article, we show that another cause for a reduced effect is that competition for resources can lead new safety measures to crowd out existing measures; to demonstrate this, we use a case related to the unloading of LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) at a warehouse. If this aspect is not taken into consideration, the effects of a single measure might be considered too high. An overinvestment in new safety measures might then occur.

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Eirik Bjorheim Abrahamsen; Alireza Moharamzadeh; Håkon Bjorheim Abrahamsen; Frank Asche; Bjørnar Heide; MariaFrancesca Milazzo. Are too many safety measures crowding each other out? Reliability Engineering & System Safety 2018, 174, 108 -113.

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Eirik Bjorheim Abrahamsen, Alireza Moharamzadeh, Håkon Bjorheim Abrahamsen, Frank Asche, Bjørnar Heide, MariaFrancesca Milazzo. Are too many safety measures crowding each other out? Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 2018; 174 ():108-113.

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Eirik Bjorheim Abrahamsen; Alireza Moharamzadeh; Håkon Bjorheim Abrahamsen; Frank Asche; Bjørnar Heide; MariaFrancesca Milazzo. 2018. "Are too many safety measures crowding each other out?" Reliability Engineering & System Safety 174, no. : 108-113.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2018 in Reliability Engineering & System Safety
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Eirik Bjorheim Abrahamsen; Håkon Bjorheim Abrahamsen; MariaFrancesca Milazzo; Jon Tømmerås Selvik. Using the ALARP principle for safety management in the energy production sector of chemical industry. Reliability Engineering & System Safety 2018, 169, 160 -165.

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Eirik Bjorheim Abrahamsen, Håkon Bjorheim Abrahamsen, MariaFrancesca Milazzo, Jon Tømmerås Selvik. Using the ALARP principle for safety management in the energy production sector of chemical industry. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 2018; 169 ():160-165.

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Eirik Bjorheim Abrahamsen; Håkon Bjorheim Abrahamsen; MariaFrancesca Milazzo; Jon Tømmerås Selvik. 2018. "Using the ALARP principle for safety management in the energy production sector of chemical industry." Reliability Engineering & System Safety 169, no. : 160-165.

Journal article
Published: 01 December 2017 in Journal of Environmental Management
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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.

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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.

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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.

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Maria 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.

Conference paper
Published: 01 December 2017 in 2017 2nd International Conference on System Reliability and Safety (ICSRS)
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The management of ageing of industrial equipment is a complex task, especially in establishments at major accident hazard. To counteract this phenomenon, various technical and managerial activities are envisaged, including non-destructive controls on pipes and vessels. Many factors can accelerate or slow down the ageing. Industrial managers must include controls within an organic plan, taking into account the potential of the most innovative technologies. The aim of this work is to present a synthetic methodology that can be useful for the Seveso inspectors and auditors, who have the difficult task of evaluating in a short time the adequacy of the monitoring plan. They cannot get into the details of the assessment, thus they must go straight to understand if schedules and techniques are congruent with the different ageing mechanisms in place and with the conditions that have been found. The result is a benchmarking method that is suitable both for internal audits and for inspections by control bodies.

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Paolo Bragatto; Corrado Delle Site; Maria Francesca Milazzo. Audit of ageing management in plants at major accident hazard. 2017 2nd International Conference on System Reliability and Safety (ICSRS) 2017, 400 -404.

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Paolo Bragatto, Corrado Delle Site, Maria Francesca Milazzo. Audit of ageing management in plants at major accident hazard. 2017 2nd International Conference on System Reliability and Safety (ICSRS). 2017; ():400-404.

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Paolo Bragatto; Corrado Delle Site; Maria Francesca Milazzo. 2017. "Audit of ageing management in plants at major accident hazard." 2017 2nd International Conference on System Reliability and Safety (ICSRS) , no. : 400-404.

Proceedings article
Published: 07 June 2017 in Safety and Reliability – Theory and Applications
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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.

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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.

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Giuseppa 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.

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Published: 21 January 2017 in Ecotoxicology
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In this study we analyzed Hg and Se concentrations in dolphin brain tissues of fifteen specimens of striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) and eight specimens of bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) stranded in the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic Seas, in order to assess the toxicological risks associated with Hg exposure. High Hg concentrations were found in brain tissues of both analyzed specie (1.86–243 mg/kg dw for striped dolphin and 2.1–98.7 mg/kg dw for bottlenose dolphin), exceeding levels associated with marine mammals neurotoxicity. Althougth the results clearly suggest that the protective effects of Se against Hg toxicity occur in cetaceans’ brain tissues, a molar excess of mercury with respect to selenium was found, particularly in adult specimens of Stenella coeruleoalba. On contrary, negligible neurotoxicological risks were found for Tursiops truncatus specimens, due to detoxification processes. Data obtained allowed to prove a more marked neurotoxicological risk for adult specimens of Stenella coeruleoalba in both Tyrrhenian and Adriatic Seas

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Antonio Bellante; Fabio D'Agostino; Anna Traina; Daniela Piazzese; MariaFrancesca Milazzo; Mario Sprovieri. Hg and Se exposure in brain tissues of striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) and bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) from the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic Seas. Ecotoxicology 2017, 26, 250 -260.

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Antonio Bellante, Fabio D'Agostino, Anna Traina, Daniela Piazzese, MariaFrancesca Milazzo, Mario Sprovieri. Hg and Se exposure in brain tissues of striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) and bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) from the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic Seas. Ecotoxicology. 2017; 26 (2):250-260.

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Antonio Bellante; Fabio D'Agostino; Anna Traina; Daniela Piazzese; MariaFrancesca Milazzo; Mario Sprovieri. 2017. "Hg and Se exposure in brain tissues of striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) and bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) from the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic Seas." Ecotoxicology 26, no. 2: 250-260.

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Published: 01 November 2016 in Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry
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To develop chemical processes, according to Green Chemistry and Engineering principles, the use of solvents must be greatly reduced or eliminated. This paper focuses on the use of a new generation of amino-functionalised ionic liquids, which enclose both solvent and catalytic properties for the bromination of cycloenones characterised by a conjugative endo-cyclic C

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Patrizia Primerano; Maria Francesca Milazzo; Francesco Risitano; Massimiliano Cordaro; Angela Scala. Environmental and safety aspects of tertiary amino-functionalized ILs’ use as efficient recyclable catalysts for direct α-bromination of cyclic conjugated enones. Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry 2016, 43, 20 -27.

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Patrizia Primerano, Maria Francesca Milazzo, Francesco Risitano, Massimiliano Cordaro, Angela Scala. Environmental and safety aspects of tertiary amino-functionalized ILs’ use as efficient recyclable catalysts for direct α-bromination of cyclic conjugated enones. Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. 2016; 43 ():20-27.

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Patrizia Primerano; Maria Francesca Milazzo; Francesco Risitano; Massimiliano Cordaro; Angela Scala. 2016. "Environmental and safety aspects of tertiary amino-functionalized ILs’ use as efficient recyclable catalysts for direct α-bromination of cyclic conjugated enones." Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry 43, no. : 20-27.