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|Bhopal Gas Tragedy |
|A review |
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|Abstract: - Multiple perspectives are particularly appropriate for risk analysis. The Bhopal chemical accident of December 2-3, |
|1984, is viewed here using this concept. The preceding paper has described the events surrounding the catastrophic leak |
|of methyl isocyanate at the Union Carbide plant; it is considered a technical perspective on the accident. |

Risk Analysis

Physical hazards have always been a feature of life. In man’s early days there were natural hazards such as earthquakes, weather, and other living organisms (microbes, animals, and fellow human beings). In modem times hazards are increasingly manmade fire, explosions, chemical spills, drugs, pollution, radioactive material, etc. Analysis of hazards has traditionally involved engineers and scientists who have produced fault trees, mean time between failure calculations, and other probabilistic analyses.

Risk is another