Ana Lisa Vetere ArellanoEuropean Commission | ec · JRC Directorate E - Space, Security and Migration, Unit E.7 - Knowledge for Security & Migration
Ana Lisa Vetere Arellano
Italian Laurea in Earth Sciences
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July 2016 - May 2017
January 2010 - January 2016
December 2004 - January 2010
Position
- Project Manager
Description
- Worked on various projects: comparison of energy technology risks, nuclear waste risk governance, HIAD (Hydrogen Incidents and Accidents Database), HySAFE (Network of excellence on hydrogen safety), safety and security of energy infrastructures, Security of Energy Systems, ESReDA accident investigation project group, ESReDA dynamic lessons learning project group, etc.
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This report is the result of a joint effort by experts, working in the fields of risk management, accident analysis, learning from experience and safety management. They come from 10 countries, mainly from Europe but also from the USA and Australia. Their expertise covers several industrial sectors. The report aims to provide useful information, fr...
This introduction gives an overview of topics in foresight contained in thirteen chapters written by members of ESReDA’s project group on Foresight in Safety. The group did not attempt a comprehensive treatment of foresight. Instead, experts in safety have shared ideas about the role and challenges of foresight in their field—mainly industrial safe...
This conclusion sets out the key messages of the ESReDA Project Group on Foresight in Safety. Please note that each of the other thirteen chapters has its own conclusions.
The analysis of “big data” has generated a large amount of interest in industry over the past decade. Promoters can point to a number of benefits and success stories in the retail and entertainment areas, as well as in optimization of industrial processes, and more recently in overcoming security (Amanullah et al., 2015), safety (Huang et al., 2019...
This publication, Case study analysis on dynamic learning from accidents, The ESReDA Cube, a method and metaphor for exploring a learning space for safety, aims to:
• Report on 5 cases analysed on dynamic learning from accidents and gives an overview of cases of accidents in the context of high risk organizations with an eye on identifying learning...
The 55th ESReDA seminar held in Bucharest the 9th and 10th of October 2018, was organized by the European Safety and Reliability Data Association and the Romanian Railway Investigating Agency – AGIFER, to invite participants to exchange ideas on “Accident Investigation and Learning to Improve Safety Management in Complex System: Remaining Challenge...
We live in a world where advancement in technology coupled with human’s creative and innovative mind has led to the design of safer and better performing infrastructures (nuclear power plants, chemical process plants, high speed trains, spaceplanes, etc.), which are needed for a modern society. However, due to the interconnected socioeconomic and t...
These guidelines have been prepared especially for designers of a training toolkit that targets specialists and generalists to be trained in event investigation and in learning from experience analysis, engineering, management and auditing. It answers to the question: “what should be in a training toolkit?” for safety investigation and dynamic lear...
Provides an overview of knowledge concerning the barriers which exist to learning from incidents and accidents. While most research on learning focuses on individual cognition, the focus in this document is mainly on learning at an organizational level, while also taking into account a cross-organizational and even societal/cultural level. It conce...
Petroleum refineries are generally acknowledged to be high hazard sites due to the nature of petroleum products and the processing technologies that produce them in the current era. For the most part, however, the risks are well-known and refinery operators have applied considerable knowledge and resources over the past decades to control and minim...
The European Safety Reliability and Data Association (ESReDA) established in year 2000, a Working Group on Accident Investigation (WGAI) that ended in the year 2008. With the objective of improving the quality of accident investigation and as a consequence the learning from experience process and the safety performance, the working group tasked its...
In many areas European research has been largely fragmented. To support the required integration and to focus and coordinate related research efforts the European Commission created a new instrument, the Networks of Excellences (NoEs). The goal of the NoE HySafe has been to provide the basis to facilitate the safe introduction of hydrogen as an ene...
The contributions in Risks Challenging Publics, Scientists and Government looks at risks not just as a technical, social, political or economic matter, but as originating and challenging the various disciplines. Contextual aspects, usually defined by engineers as "margin conditions", are generally not looked at, but deserve much more atttention, pa...
http://www.esreda.org/Portals/31/ESReDA_GLSIA_Final_June_2009_For_Download.pdf
These guidelines are the result of a joint effort by experts, in the fields of accident investigation, accident analysis, learning from experience and safety management, from 10 countries in Europe across almost every industrial sector. They attempt to represent a genera...
The paper presents and discusses steps in the development of a set of risk characterisation indicators (RCIs) to be applied for the comparison of risk expressions from different energy systems across their fuel/life cycle to obtain a fair risk evaluation. The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (EC-DG JRC), and specifically its Institu...
Since the dawn of mankind, people have strived to learn from accidents and find better ways of managing them. Throughout the years, society, technology and our environment (socio-tech-env domain) interact and co-evolve, triggering also change in the types of accidents we have to deal with. This paper attempts to depict my personal odyssey in this d...
The summary comprises an introduction on current approaches to emergency planning, and seven headings: current and future use of L2 PSA for EP; full scope L3 PSA; PSA quality requirements; future nuclear power plants; risk communication; European risk map; and international topical working group.
After mapping of current European Union regulations on the management of accident risks related to natural hazards and different industrial activities, this paper discusses insights from past and current European Commission initiatives on harmonisation of assessment and management of safety risks. The problem of safety comparison and risk/benefit c...
This paper describes the need for, and objectives of the European Hydrogen Incident and Accident Database (HIAD). This web-based Information System is currently being developed by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (Institute for Energy) and Det Norske Veritas (DNV). The background, design principles and operating regime are described....
Europe has a long history of devastation caused by floods. Each flood event triggers dynamic spatial and temporal mechanisms,
which include the mobilisation of many multi-disciplinary actors, setting up and/or revision of many administrative and operational
processes, and entry into force and/or update of legal frameworks. Depending on geographical...
There is growing concern about the potential effects of natural disaster‐triggered technological (natech) disasters. The chlorine releases in the Czech Republic following the floods that swept across Europe in the summer of 2002 and the multiple hazardous materials releases triggered by the Turkey earthquake of August 1999 were examples which showe...
After mapping current European Union regulations on management of accidental risks related to
natural hazards and different industrial activities, this paper discusses insights from past European Commission
initiatives on harmonization of assessment and management of safety risks. The problem of safety comparison
and risk/benefit communication is o...
here is growing evidence that natural disasters can trigger technological disasters, and that these joint events (also known as natechs) may pose tremendous risks to regions which are unprepared for such events. The recent floods across Europe in the summer of 2002 and the multiple hazardous materials releases triggered by the Turkey earthquake of...
As part of the NEDIES Project (http://nedies.jrc.it) of the European Commission DG Joint Research Centre, Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen, and in collaboration with the University of Twente, an initiative was launched to bring the civil protection world together with that of the economists’, in order to discuss about damage...
The NEDIES project is being conducted at Ispra by the Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC) of the Joint Research Centre (JRC). The objective of the project is to support the Commission services of the European Communities, Member State authorities and EU organisations in their efforts to prevent and prepare for natural di...
The focus of the JRC Enlargement project, "Management of Natural and Technological Hazards", is the management and mitigation of risk from technological and natural hazards. The project provides for the extension of activities of the JRC in these areas to include the candidate countries. The extension of these activities has been pursued through a...
Permeable drainage basins are not generally regarded as prone to flooding. However, such drainage basins are susceptible to inundations. Existing flood frequency estimation techniques are not able to predict efficiently flood peaks and volumes on permeable drainage basins. The paper reviews analytical design guidelines and investigates the merits a...
he NEDIES project is being conducted at Ispra by the Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC) of thel Joint Research Centre (JRC). The objective of the project is to support the Commission services of the European Communities, Member State authorities and EU organisations in their efforts to prevent and prepare for natural di...
The NEDIES project is being conducted at Ispra by the Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC) of the EC Joint Research Centre (JRC). The objective of the project is to support the Commission Services of the European Community, the authorities of the Member Countries and EU organisations in their effort to prevent and prepare...
The NEDIES project is being conducted at Ispra by the Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC) of the EC Joint Research Centre (JRC). The objective of the project is to support the Commission Services of the European Communities, Member State authorities and ED organisations in their efforts to prevent and prepare for natural...
These guidelines are mainly envisaged for decision-makers in the field of flash flood management, but can also be of interest to practitioners and the general public.
The NEDIES project is being conducted at Ispra by the Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC), formerly the Institute for Systems, Informatics and Safety (ISIS), of the EC Joint Research Centre (JRC). The objective of the project is to support the Commission Services of the European Communities, Member State Authorities and...
The NEDIES project is being conducted at Ispra by the Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC), formerly the Institute for Systems, Informatics and Safety (ISIS), of the EC Joint Research Centre (JRC). The objective of the project is to support the Commission of the European Communities, the Member States and other EU organis...
Flooding rarely occurs on permeable catchments. However, they do occur and existing flood frequency estimation techniques are not able to efficiently predict flood peaks and volumes on permeable catchments. The paper reviews flood events, design guidelines and data from permeable catchments. The role of hydrogeological processes is discussed and a...
Permeable catchments are not normally associated with flooding, on account of the low frequency of extreme flood events. The objective of this paper is to investigate flooding processes on permeable catchments. Undoubtedly, aquifers have a key role to play in permeable catchments. Every aquifer is characterised by a particular storage capacity and...
This paper describes a methodology that is the basis of the ERMON (Energy Risks Monitor) project launched by the JRC's Nuclear Safety Unit - Risk Assessment Sector - as a contribution to JRC's SETRIS (Sustainable Energy Technologies Reference and Information System) project coordinated by JRC's Clean Energy Unit. It proposes the development of a ge...
The presented taxonomy is classifying (quantitatively and qualitatively) the different natural hazardous processes and their "vulnerability" to the human activity and possible intentional actions (intacts). Due to the increased threat from different actions (including terrorists), which can generate different negative consequences to the society an...
Projects
Projects (11)
To avoid occurrence of events (accidents, incidents or crises), prevention is often seen as the main, not to say the only, goal of (industrial or system) safety.
Since the nineties, 3 ESReDA’s working/project groups have obtained results regarding improvement of safety thanks to learning from experience (e.g.accident database, accident investigation; dynamic learning as the follow-up from accident investigation). They especially:
Gave overview of accident investigation practices, institutions and regulatory framework in Europe; Gave guidance of principles for how to conduct accident investigations and design event and accident databases; Gave guidance for dimensions to be taken into account for dynamic learning after an event; Provided some requirements for designers of training in the domain of accident investigation and learning; Gave overview of the main barriers to learning from events.
This work has been documented through different publications (books, reports, guidelines, publications, ESReDA seminar proceedings), somefreely available on the ESReDA website and others that are mainly available at ESReDA editor (DNV library).
Some results of these previous works showed that, before event happened, there were early warning signs (EWS) that could have, to someextent, provided useful information and to some extent been “relevant tools” for preventing events occurrence.
Goals of the Project Group “Foresight in Safety” were:
To better define these EWS (e.g. weak signals, precursors, near misses …); To focus on the human and organizational mechanisms for their treatment (e.g. role of whistle-blowers, role of learning, enabling features of organizational culture and concepts such asmindfulness, chronic unease).
To fulfil these goals the Project Group aims will try to identify how to:
Enable organizations to deal with unexpected situations, situations not described by rules and procedures;
Link them with vulnerabilities reliability and resilience of organizations;
Characterize contrast between and change from apathetic to foresighted approach;
Apply a systems perspective regarding life cycle analysis (from design to operations andfurther) including the synergy between feedback and feed-forward controls;
Address the need for collaboration between technological and sociological disciplines;
Articulate them with monitoring of Safety Performance Indicators;
Make EWS visible in Data Bases treatment;
See interest of use of scenario techniques and simulation underlying dangerous operations;
Work of the Project Group published in 2020 through a deliverable/book "Enhancing Safety: the Challenges of Foresight"
The PG FiS organised two seminars :
53rd Seminar on “Enhancing Safety: the Challenge of Foresight”, at Joint Research Center, Ispra, Italy
55th Seminar on Accident Investigation and Learning to Improve Safety Management in Complex Systems, at AGIFER, Bucharest, Romania
The Project Group was launched in September 2015 and closed in November 2020. PG members hosted two meetings per year except in 2020 with Covid19 pandemic that leat to virtual meetings.
Participating Organisations
Agenţia de Investigare Feroviară Română (AGIFER), Romania
Club Heuristique pour l’Analyse Organisationnelle de Sécurité (CHAOS), France
Électricité de France Recherche et Développement (EDF-R&D), France
European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), Belgium
Federal Public Service Employment, Labour and Social Dialogue, Belgium
Finnish Safety and Chemicals Agency (TUKES), Finland
Fondation pour une Culture de SécuritéIndustrielle (Foncsi), France
Gestão da Produção de Energia, S.A. (EDP), Portugal
Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN), France
Kindunos Ltd., The Netherlands
SRL HSE Consulting, Norway
University of Pardubice (UP), Czech Republic
This project aims to bring concrete support to policy makers in their efforts to establish a safe, secure, inclusive and resilient society by (a) providing comprehensive overviews of the current knowledge landscape on security, dual-use and defence, (b) implementing an anticipatory approach in the context of the changing security paradigm and accelerating technological change and hyper-connectivity, through horizon scanning and by identifying future technological needs and trends and (c) co-developing R&D agendas with policy DGs under Horizon Europe, European Defence Fund and other relevant financial instruments.
