Subregional training session for the evaluation of safety reports in Croatia, Serbia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

The project’s main event was a training session on the evaluation of safety reports. It led to help the project beneficiary-countries Croatia, Serbia and fYR of Macedonia to build up the knowledge of public authorities in evaluating safety reports that are to be prepared by operators of hazardous industrial sites for demonstrating to the authorities safe operations at the sites and for receiving relevant licenses or permits. The project was designed also to provide the basis for future steps to be taken by the countries to improve the quality of safety reporting and evaluation and, through this, enhance the level of industrial safety. In the context of this project a checklist system was developed which is available for the countries to use it for evaluation of safety reports, but can be used also for further improvement of the polices for prevention of industrial accidents, and for the preparation of guidelines and trainings for operators of hazardous activities. This report gives a summary on the objectives, activities and results of the project and suggests items/topics for follow-up projects.