The Bhopal disaster‚ also referred to as the Bhopal gas tragedy‚ was a gas leak incident in India‚ considered the world’s worst industrial disaster.[1] It occurred on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal‚ Madhya Pradesh. Over 500‚000 people were exposed tomethyl isocyanate gas and other chemicals. The toxic substance made its way in and around the shantytowns located near the plant.[2] Estimates vary on the death toll. The official immediate
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BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY At 11.00 PM on December 2 1984‚ while most of the one million residents of Bhopal slept‚ an operator at the plant noticed a small leak of methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas and increasing pressure inside a storage tank. The vent-gas scrubber‚ a safety device designer to neutralize toxic discharge from the MIC system‚ had been turned off three weeks prior . Apparently a faulty valve had allowed one ton of water for cleaning internal pipes to mix with forty tons of MIC. A 30 ton refrigeration
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HEALTH THE BHOPAL DISASTER Ashay Chitre‚ a film maker living in Bhopal’s prestigious Bharat Bhawan‚ built by the state government to attract artists to this central Indian city‚ heard a commotion outside his window early in the morning at about 3 a m. It was a chill December and all the windows of Chitre’s house were closed. As Chitre and his wife Rohini‚ seven months pregnant‚ opened the window‚ they got a whiff of gas. They immediately felt breathless and their eyes and noses began to
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RISK ASSESMENT BHOPAL DISASTER CASE STUDY BHOPAL DISASTER CASE STUDY Table of contents 1-List of figures 2 2-Difficulty of this case study 3 3-Introduction 5 4-The prevent condition 7 5-What is Methyl Isocyanate 9 6-Effects of exposing to the gas 10 6.1 –Side effects of inhaling Methyl Isocyanate 10 6.2-Sociactal
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BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY By URJIT ZAVERI 14BLS119 On the night of December 2‚ 1984 forty one metric tons of methyl isocyanate also known as MIC was released from the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal. After one year of this incident almost 1800 people dies in this disaster and 320‚000 people had been affected by it. By 1991‚around 4000 people dies because of the gas in their body. Union carbide was a U.S company that started manufacturing pesticides in Bhopal‚ India. The valve malfunctioned on the 2nd December
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the Bhopal tragedy the night of December 2nd 1984‚ it is more than clear that Union Carbide Corporation have the responsibility of this tragedy and took an unethical business position‚ First‚ By making the wrong decisions about the planning of the factory because they did not invest to have effective security methods as they had on the plants located in developed countries. Second‚ because at the time of the disaster they were not conscious about the consequences and the way to act in the case of
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The Bhopal disaster‚ also referred to as the Bhopal gas tragedy‚ was a gas leak incident in India‚ considered the world’s worst industrial disaster.[1] It occurred on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal‚ Madhya Pradesh. Over 500‚000 people were exposed to methyl isocyanate gas and other chemicals. The toxic substance made its way in and around the shanty towns located near the plant.[2] Estimates vary on the death toll. The official immediate
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environmental constituents who can place demands on the firm (Ruf et al.‚ 2001). A moral theory that could support this view is the ethical theory of W.D. Ross in which he dictates 7 prima facie duties that each person may bear at any one time. In this case‚ a company has a duty of fidelity to its owners to act in their interest as well as the duty of nonmaleficence to its employees and the local community. In deciding which duty is more important we can turn to Kantian Ethics and the ethic of care. The
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After the Bhopal gas disaster in 1984‚ the Indian legislation governing safety and environment underwent significant changes.Specifically‚the factories Act was amended to assign the responsibility of the “occupier”‚who is legally responsible for the safety of the workplace and workers‚to the highest level of management in an organization. For a company this meant that one of the directors on the board had to be designated as “occupier”.The Environmental legislation also underwent changes ‚with the
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BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY Presented by Swati Sudhakaran Background of Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL) • UCIL‚ built in 1969‚ which was the Indian subsidiary of Union Carbide Corporation (UCC)‚ UCIL was owned 51% by Union Carbide Corporation and 49% of Indian investors which include Indian Government controlled banks and the Indian public holdings. In an attempt to achieve industrial self-sufficiency‚ India invited Union Carbide to set up a plant in the state of Madhya Pradesh to produce Methyl Iso
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