OMV set up a study program to audit and de- termine how high risks at their operational sites are being managed for prevention of major ac- cident events. “Our goal was to gain a much better understanding of the risks involved. We wanted to know how the sites are managed to prevent a major accident event,” says Andreas Scheed from OMV. “The start of the Major Accident Event (MAE) study project was triggered by two major inci- dents that had happened in our industry, the Texas City incident and the incident in the Gulf of Mexico,” says Rod Ritchie from OMV. “We looked at these incidents not from an upstream, downstream or offshore perspective, but as a major incident.” Ranking the operating assets In it’s study, OMV looked at Major Accident Events that could jeopardize th

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