The research focuses on how the government can learn better from disasters such as the Culemborg and Enschede fireworks disasters.
The fireworks disaster involved a mass explosion at the Enschede fireworks company SE Fireworks, which was located in the Roombeek neighbourhood. Twenty-three people were killed, including four firefighters. A total of 947 people were injured. Nothing was left of the Roombeek neighbourhood after the explosion and it was completely rebuilt. It was not the first major fireworks disaster in the Netherlands: in 1991, a mass explosion occurred in Culemborg at the fireworks company MS Vuurwerk.
