ARIPAR 5.0: Getting Started Manual

Abstract

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 pow-erful 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 Getting Started manual, which has the aim of making the user confident with the use of ARIPAR 5.0 by letting him/her to practice the most frequent commands through their application to two sample cases. The accompanying Reference Manual gives an ex-haustive description of all commands.