Introduction The primary production processes to produce active drugs involves a wide variety of complex reactions and reaction sequences‚ where raw materials react together to give the product. Such chemical process often releases energy‚ in the form of heat‚ and the reaction is described as exothermic. Many of these reactions may also evolve gases at high rates‚ and could cause reactor over-pressure. Thermal runaway reaction Runaway reactions are thermally unstable reactions where the heat
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1.0 Informative Summary 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
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Respect for tradition Cultural differences In order to respect the tradition of India‚ Union Carbide should have done an investigation of Indian cultural values (Robertson and Fadil‚ 1998). It is possible that firms even within the same industry develop different values and traditions and the analysis of cultural differences permit to decrease the number of misunderstanding (Donaldson‚ 1989). One of the most important traits of Indian culture is the fatalism. The Indian population is very spiritual
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We would like to express our gratitude to our Health‚ Safety and Environment lecturer‚ Assoc Prof Dr Mohd Azmuddin bin Abdullah for allowing us to learn more about safety in the workplace environment. All the thing that we have been lectured on will be a valuable asset for our own safety in the future while working in our own respective workplace. All the tips and advices given by him will be used to its full extent to make our project as perfect as possible. We also want to thanks
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which can be tackled by creating more employment opportunities for people. In India around 60% of the total population lives in rural areas and thus pollution caused due to indoor burning of solids is also very high. Case study: Bhopal Gas tragedy (1984) The Bhopal Gas Tragedy‚ involving a massive release of 40 tonnes heavier-than-air toxic methylisocyanate (MIC) gas‚ resulted in the death or injury of many thousands of people in the surrounding residential areas. It is attributed to the failure
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.................................................................................. |3 | |Worst man-made environmental disasters of all time............................................................ |4 | |Bhopal | | |Chernobyl
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Many workers got hurt while working in the factories and mines. The Cherry Coal Mine Disaster created a need for the Workers Compensation Act‚ which compensates workers who are harmed while working. On November 13‚ 1909‚ at 7:00 a.m.‚ 481 workers‚ men and boys‚ descended into the Cherry Coal Mine near Cherry‚ IL‚ a few miles northwest of La Salle‚ IL on Illinois Highway 89. Some sections of the mine where 500 feet below the surface. That day the electrical system broke down‚ and the mine was lit
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A congress that allows the President to permit the public to kill hibernating bears and wintering wolves are ignorant and vile people. Truly. I really wanted to make these letters respectful but‚ this is out of control… Literally. What is it going to take to get politicians to take the natural environment (which even you live in) seriously? Mass extinction? That’s what you’re asking for with this! Undrinkable surface and ground waters? We already have hundreds of thousands of impaired waterways throughout
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Executive Summary No organization could be further from the image of the "tree hugger" than the world ’s largest chemical producer‚ Dow Chemical Company. Yet for all of industry ’s superficial acknowledgement of the need for environmental responsibility‚ no other organization has so completely focused on balancing financial‚ social and environmental results. Dow has incorporated a highly successful e-commerce strategy‚ not only for the benefits it can yield in business results‚ but also as part
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The purpose of this report is to find out of three environmental disasters‚ which one was the most devastating to humans and the environment. This report is intended to be read by the United Nations to help make an important decision regarding what pollution event should be classified as the world’s most devastating. Key terms essential to an understanding of this report have been defined as follows: * TORCH – The Other Chernobyl Report * Methyl Isocyanate – A toxic chemical used in the
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