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Re: Incident/Accident

There is something similar in the UK.

A site INCIDENT is where there is an event involving a significant hazard,

fire, chemical radiation etc. which is confined within the boundaries of a

Nuclear Licensed Site, that is where there is no affect on the public.



A Site EMERGENCY is where there is an event that extends beyond the boundary

of the nuclear licensed site and so has the potential to affect the public.



In these circumstances we don't seem to use the term ACCIDENT.



BTW on the point about car crashes I recal seeing a TV documentary about

accident investigation (cars) where the investigators stated that there were

no occasions where their investigations showed that it was a true accident.



Regards

    Julian Ginniver



----- Original Message -----

From: "Cristian S. Nicolau" <cnicolau@NBNET.NB.CA>

To: <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 9:38 PM

Subject: Incident/Accident





> Some years ago, in Romania we had those two terms very well defined:

> Accident=event which affects the persons of the public

> Incident=event which does not affect the public

> I do not know if the new law is using the same terminology but this is a

> good way of using the two words, when describing radiological events. I

> always assumed this was coming from the IAEA recommendations.

>

> Regards,

> Cristian S. Nicolau

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