ARIPAR 5.0 : reference manual (software tool for area risk assessment and management)

ARIPAR is a quantitative area risk assessment tool used to evaluate the risk resulting from major accidents in industrial areas where hazardous substances are stored, processed and transported. It is based on a geographical information system platform (GIS). This tool has already been applied to perform a quantitative area risk assessment in several industrial areas, and it has been demonstrated to be a very powerful tool also for managing industrial risk. ARIPAR 5.0 is the new release of the software, which embeds several new features and improvements, such as a completely new development platform based on ArcGIS and a much more powerful module for dealing with consequence assessment data. The present document represents the Reference Manual of ARIPAR 5.0, which describes all commands, dialogs, risk analysis equations, input data format and reporting available in this software package.