The Safety and Disaster Studies working group at Montanuniversität Leoben, in collaboration with partners GeoSphere Austria (overall project management), the German Weather Service, and the Avalanche Warning Centre at the Bavarian Environmental Agency, are developing a concept to optimize cross-border and interdisciplinary climate services, known as climate services, as part of the EU-funded project “RiskLIM:...Continue Reading
Working together for a safer green energy transition. A new postgraduate safety course invites students — whatever their academic background — to learn how to mitigate green energy’s complex risks. The shift to environmentally friendly energies also opens up new questions about how to make this new industrial environment safe. New research-relevant challenges arise...Continue Reading
Research of self-heating processes of modern bulk materials Bulk solid materials can spontaneously reach high temperatures and even catch fire. The reasons for this are internal chemical/physical reactions, which generate more heat than the bulk can emit through their surroundings. Conventional combustible bulk solids are straw, coal and household wastes. Biological processes and oxidation reactions...Continue Reading
Dust cloud evolution and flame propagation of organic dust deflagration under low wall influence A lot of process industries are handling with fine dispersed organic or metallic particles and therefore dust explosions are a major hazard to consider. For prevention measures characteristic hazard parameters, whose laboratory measurement are standardized worldwide, are used. However, they are...Continue Reading
Subjective experience of the rampage in Graz from the perspective of psychosocial emergency care. Amok acts are characterized by a personal — by the perpetrator — and societal loss of control. Controlled by anger, hatred or feelings of revenge, multiple killings of specific or randomly selected people are intended. When people feel unprotected and at...Continue Reading
Influencing Factors from a Social Psychological Perspective and the Question of Technical Assistance during ski touring accidents and ad-hoc police operations Both ski tours and police ad hoc operations are usually carried out in groups and can lead to life-threatening situations for those involved. While we expect fun and enjoyment during ski tours and...Continue Reading
Assessment of the effectiveness of extinguishing additives for class A fires Water is still the most commonly used extinguishing agent for firefighting. Depending on the requirements, extinguishing agent additives are available to fire brigades in the form of additives to increase the extinguishing effect. In addition to better extinguishing properties, water consumption can also...Continue Reading
Real-time risk maps to support decision-making in CBRNe situations Within the framework of the ERIMAPS project, the foundations for the development of software to support decision-makers in response to CBRNe situations have been developed. Using less input data, the software uses automated risk analysis to create a risk map of the affected area for the...Continue Reading
Fire protection in waste management, disposal and recycling Companies in the field of waste management, disposal and recycling have been increasingly affected by major fire incidents in recent years. One of the main problems is that, despite meeting the collection quotas for portable batteries, a large number of batteries end up discarded in the residual...Continue Reading
Development of training materials for Austrian and German avalanche commissions department “people”. Under the direction of geosphere Austria, new training materials for avalanche commissions are being developed on the basis of the “Social Capacity” theory. In addition to snow and avalanche knowledge, the commissions will now also receive targeted training in the areas of organizational,...Continue Reading
