Development of an urban drainage safety plan concept based on spatial risk assessment

Abstract

Hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP) have proved their worth and contributed considerably to risk reduction of hazards being realised in the field of food industry as a stringent and preventive method. The risk management concept of the World Health Organization is based on HACCP, but the principles have been tailored to the context of water supply, which results in the development of the concept of a water safety plan. This concept is pro-active and provides operation and maintenance solutions to protect the critical infrastructure (CI). Urban drainage systems as well as water supply systems are categorised as CI, and thus, safety plans are crucial for protection, but in the field of urban drainage not established yet. Hence, the aims of this paper were to introduce urban drainage safety plans and to develop a concept for their implementation.

Keywords::

• drainage
• failure analysis
• reliability and risk analysis
• safety and hazards
• water supply

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Funding

The work reported was funded by project ‘KIRAS PL 3: Achilles’, project No. 824682 under the ‘Sicherheitsforschungs- Förderprogramm KIRAS’ of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT) and the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG).