Improving the environmental safety by means of chemical monitoring system

Abstract

To ensure a higher level of safety in the zones endangered by leakage of hazardous substances on the territory of the Moravian-Silesian region, a CHEmical MONitoring system project was implemented - CHEMON. The project aims at reducing the risks of a potential accident with hazardous substances.

The article describes the process of selecting the major sources of risks, opportunities and goals of continuous monitoring of hazardous substances (which not only serves to identify the accident occurred, but also to ensure observation of the spread of a toxic cloud), possibilities to use the existing transmission paths of the unified warning and notification system for alerting the population, informing system to alert people at risk in significant buildings and procedure of notification of the Integrated Rescue System of an accident.