December 3‚ 1984 a tragic event occurred in the city of Bhopal‚ the state of Madhya Pradesh‚ India. It has been known as the world ’s worst industrial disaster. A Union Carbide India‚ Limited (UCIL) ’s plant released 40 tonnes of methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas which instantly killed over 3‚000 people and carrying on causing the death of more than 20‚000. This tragic event involved not only the technical‚ safety issues at the time‚ but also ethical issues on the responsibility of those who would have been
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INTRODUCTION: The word ‘disaster’ is synonymous with ‘emergency’. A disaster is a natural or man-made (or technological) hazard resulting in an event of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction‚ loss of life‚ or drastic change to the environment. A disaster can be defined as any tragic event stemming from events such as earthquakes‚ floods‚ catastrophic accidents‚ fires‚ or explosions. It is a phenomenon that can cause damage to life and property and destroy the economic
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The Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Introduction In the early morning hours of December 3‚ 1984‚ a poisonous grey cloud (forty tons of toxic gases) from Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL’s)1 pesticide plant at Bhopal spread throughout the city. Water carrying catalytic material had entered Methyl Isocyanate (MIC) storage tank No. 610. What followed was a nightmare. The killer gas spread through the city‚ sending residents scurrying through the dark streets. No alarm ever sounded a warning and no evacuation
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Corporation agreed with the govern- ment of India to build a pesticide manufacturing plant in Bhopal.6 Originally‚ this plant was designed to combine and package intermediate chemicals thereby producing the end pesticide‚ Sevin‚v The constituents of the mildly toxic pesticide Sevin‚ alpha-naphthol and methyl isocyanate (MIC) were to be combined‚ diluted with non-toxic powder‚ and packaged at the Bhopal plant.8 In India‚ where pesticides are viewed as a miracle‚9 Union Carbide demonstrated both sophisticated
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the new bulb‚ both to keep costs lower and to have the added advantage of “built-in obsolescence” so that consumers would need to purchase new flashlights more often. Question: Identify the moral values‚ issues‚ and dilemmas‚ if any‚ involved in the following cases‚ and explain why you consider them moral values and dilemmas. References: Code of Ethics Fundamental Canons – “Engineers‚ in the fulfillment of their professional duties‚ shall hold paramount the safety‚ health and welfare of the public
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CASE STUDIES: BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY AND ITS ETHICAL ISSUES SUMMARY Bhopal Gas Tragedy was a gas leak incident in India‚ considered one of the world’s worst industrial catastrophes. It occurred on the night of the last year of 1984 at the Bhopal Union Carbide Corporation (Union Carbide India Limited – UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal‚ Madhya Pradesh‚ India. A leak of methyl isocyanides gas and other chemicals from the plant resulted in the exposure of hundreds of thousands of people. It also causes
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Love is the most dangerous topic to bring up with anyone because it raises so many issues and things one person can talk about. This topic will or can have everyone feeling a way with their own opinion. I believe love bring up a lot of moral issues because one can go all day with discussing this topic due to the fact that there are different types of love out there. As we review the many stories we read in class‚ in each story it defiantly showed different type of love in different ways. In the
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Emergency management (or disaster management) is the discipline of dealing with and avoiding risks. It is a discipline that involves preparing for disaster before it occurs‚ disaster response (e.g.‚ emergency evacuation‚ quarantine‚ mass decontamination‚ etc.)‚ and supporting‚ and rebuilding society after natural or human-made disasters have occurred. In general‚ any Emergency management is the continuous process by which all individuals‚ groups‚ and communities manage hazards in an effort to avoid
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The Bhopal Incident Professor: Ralph Blessing The Bhopal Incident On December 3‚ 1984 the Union Carbide Pesticide plant leaked over forty tons of toxic gases into Bhopal India. The enormous poison gas leak in Bhopal was one of the most severe industrial incidents in history. The Union Carbide India‚ pesticide plant‚ was developed to help local farmers increase production. India was a part of “green revolution”; pesticides served approximately ten percent of India’s food crop
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MORALISSUES FILESHARING Story from BBC News: http://bit.ly/tenenbaum Worksheet written by James Greenwood. http://www.james-greenwood.com American student Joel Tenenbaum was taken to court for downloading and sharing songs using the peer-to-peer file sharing program Kazaa. Under US law‚ recording companies are entitled to $750 to $30‚000 per infringement‚ or more if the jury believes the infringements were wilful. In the first case of this kind‚ a Minnesota jury awarded $80‚000 per
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