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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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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Q1} The bhopal gas tragedy is a catastrophe that has no parallel in industrial history. Bring out the ethical issues involved in the case. do you think the GOI and the madhya pradesh government were equally responsible for the disaster ? explain with reasons. Ans 1]} In 1985 the Indian government enacted the Bhopal Claims Act and took away from victims the right to represent them and vested itself with the exclusive right to represent victims. In return for a modest and arbitrarily determined
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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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A Reaction of the Bhopal Case This reaction paper is based on the ethics case: Bhopal-Union Carbide. First‚ I discuss an overview of the case. Second‚ I relate the case to principles discussed in class. Third‚ I evaluate the various points raised in class and present my point of view. Overview of the case In December 1984‚ the pesticide producing plant‚ Union Carbide‚ leaked methyl isocyanate gas in Bhopal‚ India. A substance that accidently entered the methyl isocyanate storage unit caused the
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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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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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A disaster can be natural‚ 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 events such as earthquakes‚ floods‚ fires‚ or explosions. It is a phenomenon that can cause damage to life and property and destroy the economic‚ social and cultural life of people Here we are discussing about Man-made disaster. Man-made disasters are the
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Just after midnight on December 3‚ 1984‚ a pesticide plant in Bhopal‚ India had a chemical leak accident. The chemical that was released into the air is called methyl isocyanate‚ or MIC‚ used to make pesticides. This chemical is tremendously harmful and fatal to humans‚ livestock‚ and crops. Only a short-term exposure may cause death or unfavorable health effects. The slums of Bhopal and its residents that surrounded the plant which were mostly affected by the gas suffered dearly. An estimated 8
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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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