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DONE BY: SHONA MARIA SHAJI
CLASS: 1X-B
SUBMITTED TO : MRS.RAJALAKSHMI
SUBJECT: DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Although the risk of a chemical accident is slight ,knowing how to handle these products and how to react during an emergency can re- duce the risk of injury.Various steps include:
# Hazard Mapping
# Land use Planning
# Community Preparedness etc.
Biological weapons are referred to as "Poor man's Atom bomb" because they are easy to manufactu-re, can be deployed without sophisticated delive-ry systems and have the ability to kill or injure thousands of people.
Moreover, illness from biological weapons wont be recognized in the initial stages. With highly transmissible agents, the time delay in recogniti-on could result in widespread secondary exposu-reto others, including doctors or health staff.
1. Be aware and do not share your personal belongings.
2. Listen for regular updates from local health workers.
3. Listen to the news or radio regularly. A loudspeaker should be fixed in the rural areas.
4. If you become aware of any unusual incidents, spread the news to the authorities, family,friends and neighbors.
5.Get away from the substance as soon as possible.
6.Cover your mouth and nose with thick layers of cloth or fabric.
Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) are weapons which bring a huge loss to life, property and environment. The term covers several weapon types, including nuclear, biological, chemical (NBC) and increasingly, radiological weapons. There is controversy over when the term was first used, either in 1937 (in Spain) or in 1945. Following the atom-
ic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and progressing through the Cold War, the term came to refer more to non- conventional wea-pons.
Chemicals are used by a major part of the world population unintentionally through obje-cts like hairspray, wall paint etc.
Chemical manufacturing is a major source of contaminati-on. Hazardous materials come in the form of explosives, poi-sons and radioactive material.
Chemical Weapons of Mass D-estruction (CWMD) are easy to manufacture. They are also hard to detect because they are colorless and odorless.
The onset of an industrial/chemical accident can be rapid or sudden with no warning depe-nding on the nature of occurence. Release of chemicals may be because of human error, te-chnological failure or natural activities. One of the significant events in India includes the B-hopal Disaster of 1984, where a highly toxic g-as was released into the air at a Union Carbide plant and killed more than 3,000 people.