Study and Recommendations for Safe Handling of Chlorine in Industry

Chemical emergencies arising from hazardous chemicals are not uncommon in India. Hazardous Chemical, being at the core of today’s industrial systems, has gained a very serious concern for Emergency management in community. The elements which are at highest risks due to hazardous chemical accidents primarily include the industrial plant, its employees & workers, hazardous chemicals vehicles, neighboring industry, its occupants and surrounding community. India has witnessed the world’s worst chemical (industrial) disaster “Bhopal Gas Tragedy� in the year 1984. The Bhopal Gas tragedy was most devastating chemical accident in history, where over thousands of people died due to accidental release of toxic gas Methyl IsoCyanate (MIC). Such accidents are significant in terms of fatality, injuries, damage to industry property and environment. Only in last decade, more than hundred significant chemical accidents reported in India, which resulted into hundreds of death and thousands of injuries. There are thousands of registered and hazardous factories and un-organized sectors dealing with numerous range of hazardous material posing serious and complex levels of disaster.