Distant events in time, such as the tragedies occurred in
Bhopal (1984) and Piper Alpha (1988), as well as more recent ones,
such as Buncefield (2005) and Deepwater Horizon (2010), have
remarked the essential role of adequate management and
control for chemical process industry. The European industrial
safety regulations aiming to control major-accident hazards
related to chemical substances are named after the town of Seveso,
in Italy, scene of a disaster occurred in a chemical process plant in
1976.