Tragedy Case Studies Samples For Students

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Union Carbide Corporation is a corporation or a wholly owned subsidiary of Dow Chemical; it is the producer of chemicals and polymers that undergo more than one conversion before it reaches the consumers. The company employs over 2400 people. The markets that are served by these products include paints and coatings, packaging, cable and wire, household products, personal care, automotive, textiles, agriculture, oil, gas and pharmaceuticals. The Union Carbide Corporation is a earlier constituent of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
The company had found a cost-effective way to produce ethylene from naturally found gas and liquids, such as propane and ethane. This ...

Natural and manmade disasters all have their own scary associations; for example, people who live in the south Asian nation of Bangladesh face the prospect of cyclonic storms each year that could potentially kill tens of thousands, if they don’t end up just destroying much of the year’s crops. Earthquakes such as the one that led to the 1906 fire in San Francisco are an example of a multi-phase disaster, in which one terrible event leads to another, no matter what interventions people attempt. Nuclear disasters are another example of this sort of multi-phase mayhem, as the environmental ...

Multi Agency Coordination

Multi Agency Coordination
As police officers responded quickly after the first plane crashed on the first WTC tower, there was no concrete plan what are they going to do, given that no one was expecting that kind of tragedy other than the terrorists themselves. After the first plane crash, police and the rescuers just did what the usual standard operating procedure was. They were not able to detect why the plane crashed on the first tower, they did not know that there was another plane crash approaching few hours after the first, and they did not know the ...

The recent history of the United States of America has been plagued by frequent violent outbursts. This has been especially common in schools by students employing firearms. One of the most famous of these events was the Columbine massacre. Even though it was a long time ago, I can still remember it being all they talked about in the news for a significant amount of time. Many people could not believe that such a tragedy had happened, especially at the hand of such young boys. It was a bloody encounter that stayed in the public consciousness for years, including ...

I. Introduction
Journalists have a responsibility to the facts of an event. This is an aspect of journalism that is often lost in the sensationalism that often follows the news in the modern era. Ethics and standards in journalism are principles that give the journalist a structural framework for conducting the practice of reporting on events, people, or places; they are designed to help the journalist navigate specific situations and challenges that journalists often face. Journalists do not exist in a vacuum; they are people with their own opinions and feelings about the things that they are reporting, and it follows ...

Introduction

Public relation of NASA has effectively expressed a posture indicating that the agency has actually learn more in the overview that seeks to highlight how the management of the crises in the public domain means. The two great tragedies including the space shuttle in Columbia, that have happened and the agency got engaged in the rescue program, brings out the issue that helps explain how the approaches to the crisis should be handled.
The first lesson learnt is the importance of safety. This is a reflection from the tragedy in which the space shuttle called “the challenger” crashed killing the ...

Introduction of the Case Study

The BP Texas City explosion is among the world’s biggest catastrophic disasters that saw the loss of 15 lives of the BP workers and 170 workers being injured by the huge explosion. The accident was actually caused when a few workers tried to start up a splitter referred to as raffinate tower in the Isomerization Unit (Isom) after a repair shutdown (Mogford, 2005). Alarms and instrumentation gave misguiding indications since the 170 ft tower was actually overfilled discharging the liquid to the ‘blowdown’. This ‘was actually installed in the 1950’s and had never had any connections to the flare which ...