Multi-disciplinary approach to disasters management in industrial plants

Over the past decades, several incidents and disasters in industrial plants have led the scientific community to focus more and more on this specific area producing relevant advances in the current state of art. This paper proposes a system that can be used both for decision making and education & training in disasters management in industrial plants. The system relies on a multidisciplinary architecture that allows the user focusing on the multiple aspects that characterize a disaster scenario: alarm, reconnaissance, mitigation and recovery considering also the need to provide first aid services to injured people (rescue operations and hospitalization process). While this system is part of a R&D project that is still ongoing, the main goal of this paper is to provide the reader with the description of the system architecture and with some preliminary results that have seen the development of the first demonstrator.