In the midst of this period, the most serious accident happened in Spain, the one of Els Alfacs in 1978, which ignited several alerts regarding the existing shortcomings in industrial safety. It was not until the Seveso I Directive (82/501/EEC) when the first signs that there existed Spanish scientists and technologists interested in industrial safety appeared, though this directive was not transposed into the Spanish legislation until 1988 (RD 886/1988).