Prevail of safety requirements for explosive industrial technologies in practice

Abstract

Industrial production processes often result in potentially explosive areas. While the safety requirements for explosion protection are laid down in binding directives for the Member States of the European Union and the means to achieve these objectives are developed by the national authorities of the Member States, the requirements for the safety of explosive technologies are constantly changing. In recent years, this change has brought with it new risks of a new nature, the nature of which is not yet known. The aim of our research are to investigate how explosion protection safety aspects are prevailed in practice and to identify the causes of the non-compliances found. Our qualitative research was carried out as a retrospective case study. Among our results, we managed to identify patterns in the occurrence of non-compliances, revealing that the reasons for the existence of non-compliances are mainly rooted in human and organisational factors.