AUTOMATIZED ACCIDENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

...once an accident occurs

Major industrial chemical accidents are of low frequency, but their occurrence in the last two decades has made them highly significant events in terms of loss of lives, injuries, environmental impact and material damage.

Each industrialized city needs to establish an effective means of responding to accidents, such as "runaway" chemical reactions, fires and explosions.

The AAMS "Volgograd" is designed for administrators and managers responsible for chemical safety to help prevent poisoning from uncontrollable physico-chemical phenomena and save lives and minimize damage to health from toxic exposure.

What are capabilities of the AAMS Program?

The proposed AAMS Program assures ready access to complete and up-to-date chemical, toxicological and medical information. The main purpose of the Program is to establish a better basis for chemical accident management and help those in public authorities and industry who have to deal with such emergencies. The Program allows management personal and duty operators at workplaces to be furnished with data for decision making in chemical hazard control.

What is more, in devising a strategy to manage a chemical accident, a multiphase action plan may be envisaged based on the Program's potential. With its help, it is possible to address various aspects of the problem of chemical accidents, namely, as to:

• register a message on emergency;
• model the events of an accident, especially, those that take place in the initial stage when there is severe lack of information on how the situation is arising;
• prognose the scale of environmental contamination;
• determine personal casualties to be expected;
• give recommendations to medical services on what actions should be taken to mitigate health outcomes from exposure to chemically dangerous substances;
• draw up current and final reports on dangerous occurrences.

What can the AAMS Program do?

The information required can be presented both in verbal form and in the form of computerized maps with plotted geographical coordinates of contamined objects, probable spread of toxicants by transport, through air, aquatic systems and soils, as well as with confounding factors of weather conditions.

The database contains information on 1615 chemically active and dangerous substances.

The Program can be a help in looking for details of organizations, such as emergency medical and essential public services, hospitals, laboratories and so on.

The software system is easy to learn; the User does not need any computer experience to get started.