10-12 Page- Human Behavior and Organization

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The Bhopal disaster occurred on December 3, 1984 at a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhophal, Madhya Pradesh India. The pesticide plant leaked 40 tons of methyl isocyanine (MIC) into the air, exposing more than 500,000 people to the gas. There was a confirmed total of 3,787 deaths related to the gas release within the first 24 hours of exposure and another 15,000 related deaths to this day. It left an estimated 100,000 individuals permanently disabled and suffering from various serious illnesses. This leak is the worst industrial accident in modern day history.

I will attempt to answer the following questions within my final paper:

1. What impact did the Bhopal disaster have on safety regulations for an industrial setting?

2. What moral impact did the disaster have on the employees and stockholders of Union Carbide and the decisions they chose to handle the disaster?

3. What long-term impact did this disaster have in this region of India?

4. Internally, what could the management of the chemical plant and Union Carbide done differently?

This topic is critical to me because I work within a manufacturing setting. The rules and regulations that we abide to have had a major influence because of this disaster. This was BP Decades before the BP oil spill. They both share the same socially moral and ethical responsibility to their community and both have suffered sanctions for their handling of the disaster. As the result of this disaster, I hope to see how corporate responsibility to the community and employees evolve. How management styles have changed when listening to employees regarding the potential of faulty equipment. The responsibility the individual employee can have if there is any kind of wrongdoing.