Core Activities

According to the workplan, the following Core activities were implemented during the biennium 2013–14:
a) Involvement of Parties and other stakeholders

• Targeted communication (newsletters, press releases, leaflets, website, participation in forums)
• Working visits and high-level meetings to Parties
• Working visits to other stakeholders

b) Exchange of information

• Exchange of experience and good practices among Parties and to promote the continuous organization of bilateral exercises for preparedness
• Raising knowledge on industrial safety at universities (follow-up to pilot project in Armenia)
• Sharing good practices for increasing public involvement in national work on industrial safety (possibly in cooperation with Aarhus Convention)

c) Strategic partnerships

• Development of a guide on methodology for hazard rating, with partners
• Development by a group of safety and land-use planning experts, and with partners, of criteria or standards for safety and land-use planning, incorporating long-term trends
• Activities (to be defined) to raise awareness of the risk of complacency, to ensure prevention and to maintain a high level of safety, with partners
• Development with partners of guidelines on transboundary risk assessment, possibly including the characterization of exposure risks; RIECO project (lead/supporting countries: Republic of Moldova, Netherlands)
• Development of a checklist on the safety of tailings management facilities (lead country: Germany)
• Meeting of the Joint Expert Group on Water and Industrial Accidents for the elaboration of a checklist or methodology for harmonized contingency planning for accidents with potential impacts on transboundary waters
• Carrying out steps identified to assist countries in the ratification of the Protocol on Civil Liability and Compensation for Damage Caused by the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents on Transboundary Waters (second and third steps
• Online training on industrial accidents, with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Joint UNEP/Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Environment Unit (continued)
• Meeting with partner organizations to coordinate joint activities (First inter-agency meeting on industrial accidents; Second inter-agency coordination meeting on industrial accidents)

d) Financing

• Donor meetings
• Bilateral visits

e) Other activities

• Eighth meeting of the Conference of the Parties
• Meetings of the Bureau, or jointly with the Working Group on Implementation
• Meetings of the Working Group on Implementation
• Meetings of the Working Group on Development
• Consultation for Points of Contact to review the effectiveness of the ECE Industrial Accidents Notification System.