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Katarina Holla

University of Žilina Slovakia

Dr. Katarina Holla gained her PhD. with the thesis Risk Assessment of Industrial Process at Faculty of Security Engineering, University of Zilina in Zilina. Since 2014 she has been appointed Vice – dean for International Relations and Marketing on Faculty of Security Engineering. Her research is mainly focused on the area of Major Industrial Accidents Prevention (Risk Assessment and Treatment) and Crisis Management cycle phases where she has already implemented semi – quantitative and quantitative methods for risks assessment developed within R&D projects. This Complex model for risk assessment is now being used by several companies in Slovak Republic by creation of documentation on safety. She has published more than 82 research papers and 7 books in Slovak and English language. She has delivered special invite presentation on Northumbria University in Newcastle, University of Cardiff and University of Economics in Prague. She obtained specialized skills in the area of Major Industrial Accidents Prevention (Seveso III directive - specialist), Transport of Dangerous Goods (safety advisor) and Health and Safety at Work issues (safety advisor for companies). She has participated in 7FP projects (e.g.COBACORE) and attended several scientific conferences (in Tokyo, USA, Korea and other EU member states).

1books edited

2chapters authored

Latest work with IntechOpen by Katarina Holla

Crisis management is an interdisciplinary subject field represented by theoretical problems, practical activity, people management and the art of crisis situation solving. Overall, the studies that this publication contains are to provide an overview of the state of the art mainly focused on crisis management cycle represented by certain phases and steps. Topics include also lessons learned from natural and man-made disasters, crisis communication, information systems in crisis management, civil protection and economics in crisis management. We hope that chapters of this book will provide useful information within crisis management issue for a wide audience.

Crisis Management

Crisis Management

Edited by Katarina Holla

Chapters authored

Risk Assessment in Accident Prevention Considering Uncertainty and Human Factor Influence

By Katarína Zánická Holla

Part of the book: Nuclear Power

Risk Management in the Area of Major Industrial Accident Prevention in the EU and Slovak Republic

By Katarina Holla and Eva Sventekova

The SEVESO II and III Directives relate to approximately 12,000 EU establishments working with the hazardous substances. The majority of EU member states implement new requirements of the SEVESO III Directive to their legal environment. The third revision goes hand in hand with the enforcement of the CLP legislation, concerning the Classification, Labelling and Packaging of chemical substances and mixtures. Risk Management is appearing as one of the most important challenges nowadays to raise the prevention level in these establishments. The book chapter analyses the industrial accidents and identified consequences and impacts whose results can be implemented to the effective prevention. The benefit of this chapter is the summarisation of the legal regulations, information systems and especially the statistics of the industrial accidents in Slovakia and the EU. The risk assessment is one of the problem areas of prevention therefore, it was necessary to present the methods and techniques utilised here and to clarify the approach used in the Slovak Republic. The programme ALOHA is most frequently used for modelling the consequences and therefore we presented its possible utilisation on a particular example at the end of this article. The main goal of this chapter is to show how is important to proceed risk management in establishments with hazardous substances is, what kind of methods should be use here to decrease risks and possibilities for modelling its impacts.

Part of the book: Risk Management

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Igor Peshko

Wilfrid Laurier University , Canada

Hash Hashemian

Richard Wood

Oak Ridge National Laboratory , United States of America

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