In 2013, a Montreal, Maine & Atlantic(MMA) oil cargo train derailed in Downtown Lac Megantic starting a fire that before it was controlled left many people dead and economic loss. The catastrophe took place due to two main factors which are the lack of safety culture from MMA and the insufficient supervision of Transport Canada(TC). For instance, one factor that TC did not consider was the weaknesses in the oversight of the railway conditions. MMA has had issues regarding safety, that TC has been continuously reporting but not being sure those issues were effectively solved, such as the lack of quality in the crew arrangements and its training level. Another active factor was an improper repair of the mentioned train time ago, that ended up in the starting fire causing the procedures against fire were executed and initiating the…
Sadie Nussbaum, an eighteen-year-old Jewish girl who had lived in the United States of America her entire life along with 148 of her fellow workers, was killed in the fire in the Triangle Shirt Factory(Nussbaum death certificate). Ever since, historians and advocates have asked the question, “Who should be held responsible for their deaths?” After looking at many sources it seems that the owners of the building, Blanck and Harris, were ultimately responsible for the fire. This is because they failed to keep the building properly inspected, had terrible working conditions and over crowding, and only had one exit door.…
By doing efforts in the cost of clothing and the salary of garment workers, the goal of poverty reduction will be achieved. This is the precondition Saunders Doug wants to emphasize in his article “Are garment workers' deaths on our hands? no.” Most important of all is to globalize the standardization of work, which the author highlighted the concept by means of raising the safety awareness of garment factories. First of all, the fact from two examples of 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and the collapse in Dhaka indicates workers in garment-factory of developing countries are always in the lower income group and their security is in jeopardy, but they are willing to be in this industry so as to have a path to the western consumers. In addition, the author points out Bangladesh should learn the success of the improvement of security facilities and equipment from North American due to their horrible experience. Moreover, it is significant to raise living standards like China so that the number of poverty in Bangladesh is reduced and the status of women is upgraded. In terms of building codes, safety standards and hygiene, it is difficult to solve these underlying problems. As the world is changing, it is believed that companies will be forced to treat garment workers fairly and give safety guarantee to them. In conclusion, the truly measurement of rescuing garment workers from dangerous situation is able to make the globalization come true by attracting the public eyes on the safety, living condition and the result of workers’ labor.…
Many people today are so unaware as to why we must practice and follow fire procedures. For the most part people never question how it come to be. Well it took many of people’s lives to ameliorate the world for laws to enforce a safe working environment. As to this day, there are several laws that protect the workers’ rights, workers’ environment, and several fire procedures that are enforced all around us. This did not only apply to workers and their environment but applies every place we go, even in our own homes, have safety codes that were created because of this tragic…
We have to consider the local government have authority or influence to implement fire safety, which they fail to monitor. Federal government particularly the local government can be partially liable to the incidence as they fall short on examine the triangle waist company safety measure especially one point of view revealed that faulty wiring as the probable cause of fire which the local engineers would have prevented. Fire departments despite its effort to put down the fire should have share the responsibility since they were not able to calculate such happenings, which was evident of their inferior equipments at that time. On one hand, national government may also contribute to the fail rescue attempt as they were behind the budgeting of the finances allocated to agencies like the fire department.…
A Magnificent Catastrophe The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America’s First Presidential Campaign With the recent election of 2016, I have began to wonder if the political process of electing the nation’s president has always been so divided, ugly, and absolutely chaotic. I wondered if politicians have always been so corrupt and belligerent, and I wondered if there have been more elections where our nation has been forced to pick the lesser of two evils (unless, of course, you felt strongly for one candidate or the other which can be very troubling to imagine when presented with the character and decisions of the last two candidates). Author of A Magnificent Catastrophe, Edward J. Larson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, wildly illustrates…
Construction projects involve use of heavy machinery, execution of numerous work activities simultaneously. Working environment like in Pakistan where safety culture does not prevail results in increased vulnerability to accidents thus frequent emergency situations on construction projects. The author being a Project Manager on construction projects have experienced number of emergency situation involving loss of life of worker. The Safety Rules requires that the constructor shall establish Emergency Response Procedures for every project, Life Insurance of worker is also mandatory clause of the contract agreement in Pakistan but normally not implemented in letter and sprite. This article will be useful to assist constructors in developing Emergency Response Procedures. Detailed Emergency Plan helps to minimize the human suffering and economic losses that can result from emergencies.…
Three major disasters struck Texas in the 20th century. They left both wonderful and unhelpful social, political, and economic effects. The Texas City Explosion had the most lasting effects on the US.…
Risk from Accident, Opposition and Sabotage Sahacogen business has the risk of causing the fire from operational accident. The company has the risk to be opposed by local community. All such risks correlate with the year in service of the power plants, human errors and being the target of saboteurs. However, the managements set the specific policy to continuously monitor the process and reduce the…
On September 11, 2001, an act of terrorism took place in New York City on the World Trade Center. As a result of this, many lives were lost and many people were injured. This is completely at fault of the US government. Not only were the people that were inside the World Trade Center affected, but bystanders, and even the first responders were killed, injured, or got sick. The federal government should definitely compensate the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. One reason is because healthcare usage rose above expected levels in months following the attacks. Another reason is that there were a high amount of deaths by many different ways of first responders. A third reason is that it t wasn’t until June 2002 that the air quality around the site returned to normal, so many normal people just going about their day have experienced health problems since the attacks.…
The mall’s series of owners lied to dozens of people rather than take the initiative to resolve the leakage issue. Due to financial reasons and unethical judgements, the safety ownership became no one’s prerogative. It is clear that the actions resulting from negligence and incompetence of individuals could result in a disaster. It is hard to understand why none of the three owners of the mall fixed the leakage problem and why morals and ethics were forgotten…
The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake, with an epicenter near the town of Léogâne (Ouest Department), approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital. The earthquake occurred at 16:53 local time (21:53 UTC) on Tuesday, 12 January 2010.[7][8]…
The Sumatra earthquake disaster was extremely devastating. It claimed 286,000 lives and caused irreversible damage to the landscape. It recorded a 9.0 on the Richter scale and induced megathrust, with a vertical displacement of between 30ft and 50ft and 75 miles long(Iris). It lasted for eight minutes and without warning systems the victims of these disasters didn’t have a chance. In this case money was a huge reason why the death total was so big. Without enough funds to provide the city of Indonesia with the proper early warning system countless lives were lost.…
Our nation has grown to what it is today because we have continued to learn from past mistakes in an effort to grow and be better than ever. Disasters are no exception. In 1911, a disastrous fire in New York City took the lives of 146 people. This could have been prevented had we known how important building safety codes really are. Their fruitless efforts deepened the despair on the faces of the gathering crowds. Nothing could save the hopeless workers. People could only watch them suffer from afar. This devastating fire forevermore transformed the working class of America. The Triangle Factory Fire’s loss of life was fueled by non-existent fire prevention, inadequate safety codes, lack of proper firefighting equipment, poorly planned fire escapes, and inaccessible exits. The 146 lives lost were the ultimate martyrs for worker safety. Even though it is not perfect and our country has some of the best working conditions in the world.…
Corporate crime means crimes committed by a corporation such as business or by individuals. The Rana Plaza collapse is both committed by the corporation and individuals. As the government blaming the owners when they themselves did not do their job as well. Corporate Social Responsibility can apply here because the government had the responsibilities to do proper inspections more often and take actions when the cracks were brought out by the media.( Christopher, Tatham. Lecture 7 corporate crime). So the crime is both committed by the owner for putting the money in his pocket instead of using it for the safety of the workplace. The government for not doing their job and ignoring the situation which took lives of thousands of workers. Also,…