Download or read book Series on Chemical Accidents Guidance on Developing Safety Performance Indicators For Public Authorities and Communities Public written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-03 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Document was designed to serve as a tool to assist industrial enterprises, public authorities, and communities near hazardous installations world-wide develop and implement a means to assess the success of their chemical safety activities.

Download or read book Series on Chemical Accidents OECD Guidance on Safety Performance Indicators A Companion to the OECD Guiding Principles for Chemical Accident Prevention Preparedness and Response written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2003-11-27 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guidance on Safety Performance Indicators provides a systemic approach to measuring the success of stakeholders' chemical safety programmes by detailing targets, activity indicators and outcome indicators.

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