Contents
Abstract- Introduction
- Structures of the management
- Plant Operation
- The pre-event phase
- The process that lead to leakage
- Consequences
- Improvements in management
- conclusion
- References
Description
The Bhopal Gas Leak, India 1984 is the largest chemical industrial accident ever. 520,000 persons were exposed to the gases, and more than 2,000 died during the first weeks. 100,000 persons or more have got permanent injuries. The catastrophe has become the symbol of negligence to human beings from transnational corporations. It has thus served as an alarm clock. All the same, industrial disasters still happen, in India as well as in the industrialized part of the world. Although they are far from the size of Bhopal, they are so numerous so that chemical hazards could well be considered as a public health problem. The companies usually dispute their own roll to the accidents, and deny the health effects of the accidents. The companies have also been reluctant to compensate the victims economically. There are still different opinions on the cause to the Bhopal disaster and who was responsible. According to Union Carbide, it was sabotage by a disgruntled worker. In injury analysis, the conception “the process of the accident”, including pre-event, event and post event phases, is used. Many models for injury analysis are developed. Usually, they are used for events like traffic accidents and child burns.
