This week’s class was about disaster due to error in engineering design. The example we focus on was the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster in January 28‚ 1986. It was a disaster that really touch the public. Unfortunately‚ all the seven members of the crew including the teacher Sharon Christa McAuliffe died. She was the first civilian astronaut from the President Ronald Reagan project the TISP: Teacher In Space Program. The Space Shuttle Challenger was NASA’s second space shuttle orbiter to be put
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shuttle‚ hydrogen began leaking and continued to fuel that flame. ("Challenger Disaster‚" n.d.) Contributing Factors Contributing factors for this accident can be narrowed down to weather and aerodynamic forces. The Challenger had never been launched in such low temperatures as this time. Sources point to the temperature dropping below 18° F the night before and 36° F on the morning of the launch. ("Challenger Disaster‚" n.d.) This colder climate created certain conditions that sources say affected
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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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Disasters are multidimensional occurrences that disrupt many if not all aspects of normal human life‚ including environmental‚ social‚ economic‚ political‚ and biological systems (Bankoff 2004:10). To understand why disasters have such wide ranging affects and how we can effectively manage them‚ we must understand the concepts of hazard‚ risk and vulnerability. Risk in regard to disaster is the likelihood or probability of harmful consequences happening; awareness of risk gives us the ability to
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that human-made disasters have consistently been caused‚ not by individuals‚ but by errors‚ misjudgments‚ failures or even negligence by senior management because they have failed to instill a culture of safety within an organization.” Critically discuss this statement‚ giving examples where appropriate. This essay question revolves around the one of the most pressing questions asked by media organizations at the scene or onset of a disaster‚ ‘what/who caused it?’ Was the disaster due to human
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effects of the Challenger and Columbia disasters It was the day in the history of America wherein the people had a great expectation of a mission that would take a civilian for the first time into the space by launched the Challenger‚ in 1986‚ but something unexpected happened when the shuttle explored shortly after liftoff and claiming the lives of all crew members onboard. That was not the only exploration of the American history‚ another similar disaster was the exploration of a 16 -day mission
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Modeling and Design Report Success Breeds Confidence and Fantasy The Challenger Disaster Abstract Could the challenger disaster have been avoided? I once heard a smart man say “Never get to confortable with what you are doing and if you get to confortable change your work”. The challenger disaster was the product of over confidentiality of the engineers working in the project. The problem that the challenger had been a failure of the O-rings in the engine‚ these O-rings failed to keep gases
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Introduction Catastrophes are not average‚ they are great exceptions. Disaster planning must deal with the unknown. There is no where on earth that is risk free‚ so we must find cost effective ways to minimize destructive events to the best of our ability. This paper will lay out a rudimentary training plan that will assist Emergency Managers in planning for events. This will not detail the event‚ but lay a framework that can be used in any form. 1. Discussion All emergency management
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