The Lac-Megantic rail disaster tilts more to the Area One of the factor analytical model due to several reasons. This disaster was controllable due to the fact that the train was originally not repaired the way it should have been 8 months prior, the main focus was a short term patch up job on the train after the locomotive suffered engine failure. The locomotive was repaired using an epoxy like material that failed and led to a fire, this lead to the train being evacuated and finally set it on its rouge decent leading to its derailment. Although the train derailment was a horrible accident to the city of Nantes, Quebec it was not on the scale of being a global catastrophe, it is limited to a city wide emergency. The actions of individuals did play a role along with many other factors, but it cannot be said that it was any illegal action that led to this accident. …show more content…
overall the risk is decreasing as the oil and hazardous materials were cleaned up, and after this accidents the standards of the Transportation safety board of Canada implemented safety information in regards to securement of unattended trains, classification of perlououm crude oil, rail conditions at Lac Megantic, employee training programs, and changed many rules in regards to single person train operations in the hopes to prevent the likelihood of future accidents. The Lac-Megantic tilts more to the Area 1 of the model due to the fact that it relates with more of its contents then the
A leak occurred which impacted the forests around the area and the RCAF (Royal Canadian Air Force) weapons testing area. This resulted in the loss of 1.878 million litres of bitumen oil and 13.5 hectares of land was affected (mostly damaged). The situation was reported in June 2013 and the leak was cleaned by late 2014. CNR officials stated that the leak was caused because of the use of faulty equipment in one of the oil wells. The faulty equipment was not strong enough to hold the oil that it created so much pressure in the pipes and lead to a leak. The flooding of the oil also went into the underground reservoir which caused even more leakage of bitumen oil. Canadian Natural Resource strives to minimize the impact on the environment, but because of the negligence of the pipes, they have set back on their vision. This leads us to think about the main question, how might the company be able to prevent further spills and
On March 28, 1979, at 4:00 A.M. Eastern time, the worst accident in commercial nuclear power history happened. It was a nice day in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, and then it all happened. This accident was rated a 5 on a scale that only goes to 7. The scale is called International Nuclear Event Scale. It all started inside the secondary-system where the pilot-operated relief valve was stuck open releasing large amounts of nuclear reactor coolant. This horrific accident caused many scientists to worry about nuclear energy, as well as concerning scientists that it could be a danger to the world, so this caused many safety concerns among activists and the general public which resulted in in new regulations for the nuclear industry, and has been cited as a contributor to the decline of a new reactor construction program that was already underway in the 1970s. Even though this sounds like it should have caused many people to develop cancerous cells, epidemiological studies analyzing the rate of cancer in and around the area since the accident, determined there was a small statistically non-significant increase in the rate and thus no causal connection linking the accident with these cancers has been substantiated. After
The Lac-Mégantic derailment occurred on July 6, 2013 in the town of Lac-Mégantic, which is located in the Eastern Townships of the Canadian province of Quebec and has population of about 6,000.The disaster occurred when a 74-car freight train, through a complex series of events, ran away and derailed. The events that led to the disaster included an inadequate repair on the lead locomotive’s engine, a lack of the necessary amount handbrakes, weak safety training for Montreal, Maine & Atlantic (MM&A) staff, and a failure of federal oversight.
Even though Africville was an area of which African Canadians felt accepted and safe, many problems occurred with poverty being one of the major ones. Due to discrimination people would refuse to hire or gave low paying jobs. About 65 percent of Africville residents worked as household employees or care takers. During this time Halifax was retrieving taxes and not returning any major services like running water or street lights. It wasn’t until 1883 when Africville received their first school, however not even one of the teachers gained proper training till 1930. Also, about the time of 1917, The Halifax Explosion occurred; many homes were greatly damaged if not completely destroyed. Another major problem was in 1854; Halifax created a railway
Experts say the many deaths could have been prevented with better safety training and better safety precautions. Since then new and old rules have been enforced. During the late 1980's the federal and provincial governments installed boards to regulate offshore oil and gas. These boards required anyone visiting the rigs to have minimum safety...
When complicated systems fail catastrophically, there are processes that aim to fulfill three general objectives. One, is to assign blame, another, to understand what happened and what why it happened. Last, is to fix the specific feature or problem so that disaster will not happen again. In the article “Blowup” published in 1996 by The New Yorker, author Malcolm Gladwell examines catastrophes such as the Challenger explosion, and the near-disaster at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. He begins by defining the “rituals of disaster,” [1] a modern process in which physical evidence is collected and scrupulously analyzed to form a conclusion, and further explores the sociological aspects surrounding disasters, tying them to the human
Countless engineering disasters have occurred in this world, many civilians lost their lives due to corrupted constructions. The most fatal and deadly engineering disaster that took place in our history was the Chernobyl disaster. The Chernobyl catastrophe was a nuclear setback that happened at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in on April 26, 1986. It is seen as the most recognizable terrible nuclear power plant cataclysm ever. A nuclear crisis in one of the reactors caused a fire that sent a cluster of radioactive consequence that on the long run spread all over Europe.
Through the path of history, there have been several major events that influenced thousands of lives and were significant in forming the world today. One of the largest and deadliest events that occurred in history was a disaster not anybody could control or be held accountable for. This was Hurricane Katrina. On the early Monday morning of August 29th, 2005, a Category 5 rating Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast of the United States with winds up to 175 miles per hour and a storm surge of 20 feet high. Hurricane Katrina was one of the greatest and most destructive natural disasters recorded to make landfall in the United States. The natural causes of the hurricane, poorly structured levees, disaster inside the Superdome, and the
Hazards pose risk to everyone. Our acceptance of the risks associated with hazards dictates where and how we live. As humans, we accept a certain amount of risk when choosing to live our daily lives. From time to time, a hazard becomes an emergent situation. Tornadoes in the Midwest, hurricanes along the Gulf Coast or earthquakes in California are all hazards that residents in those regions accept and live with. This paper will examine one hazard that caused a disaster requiring a response from emergency management personnel. Specifically, the hazard more closely examined here is an earthquake. With the recent twenty year anniversary covered by many media outlets, the January 17, 1994, Northridge, California earthquake to date is the most expensive earthquake in American history.
Travelling at a speed twice that of sound might seem to be something futuristic; however, this feat has already been achieved almost 40 years ago by the world’s only supersonic passenger aircraft-The Concorde. Concorde brought a revolution in the aviation industry by operating transatlantic flights in less than four hours. The slick and elegant aircraft with one of the most sophisticated engineering was one of the most coveted aircrafts of its time. However, this was all destined to end when Air France Flight 4590 was involved in a tragic disaster just outside the city of Paris on July 25, 2000. The crash killed 113 people, but more disastrous was its impact. The belief and confidence people had with Concorde gradually started to fade, and finally Concorde was grounded after two and a half years of the crash. Official reports state that the main cause of the crash was a piece of metal dropped by a Continental aircraft that flew moments before Concorde, but, over the last decade, the report has met a lot of criticism, and many alternative hypotheses have thus been proposed.
It is also the same as the factors that will be listed as the prime factors that caused a catastrophic disaster at Tenerife airport. 60 investigators were sent down to Tenerife airport to investigate the cause of the accidents. All the possible factors that found to be the cause for the disaster were list down, being research and investigate, and also some investigators do study group to exchanges the information and opinions for the accident. After many years of investigation, they had solved and concluded the case as stated in their reports that being referred to complete this assignment.
The November thirteenth terrorist attacks on Paris stunned the world. With the deaths of 129 people in the metropolis, it has veritably reached the same severity as the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center in New York City. Now that the world has had a chance to recover from the shock of the tragedy however, it is now faced with many hard questions. Why did this attack take place? Why did it take place where and when it did? As with most catastrophes, the most prevailing question surrounding the whole ordeal is whether anything could have been done to prevent it, but the answer is far from cut and dried. The contributing factors of the attacks are many, the most frightening clearly being that the Paris attacks were the result of comprehensive
The State of Uttarakhand is vastly covered by high Himalayan Mountains comprising the Himadri and Shivalik ranges. The existence of such mountainous terrain in the state makes it prone to many natural disasters such as Landslides & Floods. Also, the fact that the entire area of Uttarakhand is categorized as Seismic Zone IV which makes it prone to major Earthquakes. Several major and minors rivers originate in the hills of Uttarakhand. Two major rivers, i.e. Ganga & Yamuna have their sources in the upper reaches of Gangotri and Yamunotri glaciers respectively.
Risk analysis can be well defined in two categories that is assessment of risks and management of risks (Tularam & Attili 2012). Risk assessment comprises of various sub processes like risk identification, risk evaluation and calculating the probability of occurrence of unexpected event and its severity rate. Second category deals with the management of risk in terms of what necessary actions to be taken in order to deal with the identified risks associated with a particular risk event. Risk analysis process is considered to be successor of a hazard or an accident that and plays a significant role in confronting numerous risks associated with unexpected or sudden events that leads to negative outcomes. Importance of Risk analysis lies in the fact that it acts as a framework in order to track down the almost all significant risks associated with an event along with their probabilities of occurrence and how severe can be the consequences resulting from that particular event. In addition to this, it enhances our efficiency to deal with identified risks through prioritization process which allows us to deal firstly with most significant and highly rated risks and minor risks to be put under investigation so
Natural disasters like the great hurricane Katrina of 2005, the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the Krakatau volcano eruption in Indonesia, the 2009 earthquake in Eastern Bhutan, the greatest earthquake of 2010 in Haiti and the recent Mount Everest avalanches in Nepal and many more other natural disaste...