Matt McKeon-Slattery
Matt McKeon-Slattery earned a B.A. from Hunter College where he majored in political science and media studies. Prior to that, he studied engineering at Cooper Union, where he ran the student newspaper as its editor-in-chief. He is currently studying part-time at NYU in pursuit of a Master of Urban Planning degree. He has been an assistant editor at AIChE’s Chemical Engineering Progress.
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"The eight convicted on Monday were Keshub Mahindra, the chairman of the Indian arm of the Union Carbide (UCIL); VP Gokhale, managing director; Kishore Kamdar, vice-president; J Mukund, works manager; SP Chowdhury, production manager; KV Shetty, plant superintendent; SI Qureshi, production assistant. All of them are Indians."Since many of you can count, you'll notice that only seven names are listed. An eighth has died since charges were originally brought against the group. Again, since this has taken so long, some of these men are now in their 70s. In addition to the prison sentences, each was ordered to pay a fine of 100,000 Indian rupees (~$2,125). Union Carbide, the company that ran the pesticides-producing plant in Bhopal, paid $470 million to the Indian government twenty years ago. Dow Chemical purchased Union Carbide in 1999. They consider this matter resolved. The line between corporate and individual responsibility seems blurred in good times and bright-lined in the aftermath of a disaster. Perhaps this international incident will be a preview as to what might happen when everything gets sorted out in the Gulf of Mexico.
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I've just learned and read in detail about the incident in Bhopal this past month. I was given a book entitled "Incidents that Define Process Safety" and Bhopal was one of the longest chapters I've read so far. The failure of process safety management caused so much disaster and tragedy and yet people today still do not know the justice that these people deserve. I don't know how Anderson lives on today without the guilt that will stay with him for a lifetime. No people should ever have to experience such tragedy again. Engineers of tomorrow have many examples of history to study and ensure that no reoccurences happen. I'm surprised by the number of engineers who do not know about famous incidents such as Bhopal or PiperAlpha and many more. I believe every engineer should know about these incidents no matter what field of engineering they're studying.
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