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 locate away from population centres, and that would discourage people from moving close to plants and waste disposal sites;
 * ensure that plant workers are provided with full information about the products and technologies they handle, and are given adequate training in safe operational procedures and emergency preparedness; and
 * involve local governments and community residents in me)or siting decisions and emergency preparedness planning.

86. Increasingly, the consequences of accidents may seriously affect neighbouring countries. Nations should enter into arrangements with other nations that could be seriously affected by an accident in hazardous facilities located on its territory, under which they would agree to:
 * notify each other of the location and essential characteristics of existing hazardous installations, an accident in which could spill over and affect lives, property, and ecosystems in the other
 * prepare contingency plans covering potential accidents in these installations;
 * provide prompt alert. full information and mutual assistance in case of accidents;
 * establish criteria for selection of sites for new hazardous facilities, which would then be subject to the above: and
 * establish standards for the liability and compensation for any damage caused by transfrontier pollution.

87. Industrial accidents and their consequences are to a large extent unpredictable. In order to better identify risks, governments, international organizations, and industry itself should promote further development of technology/risk assessment methodologies, establish data banks on such assessments conducted, and make them easily available to all countries. /…