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SUMMARY:Big Picture Talk: Bhopal 40 years on - What have we learned? - Pro
 fessor Fiona Macleod
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DESCRIPTION:Our departmental seminar series\, Bigger Picture Talks\, runs 
 throughout the academic year\, inviting thought-leaders from across the wo
 rld driving significant advances in our impact areas of energy\, health an
 d sustainability to share and discuss their work with us.\n\nThis talk wil
 l hear from alumni Professor Fiona Macleod\, Professor of Process Safety a
 t the University of Sheffield\, who will talk about safety in the chemical
  engineering industry\, using the worst disaster in history as a lens for 
 why safety matters.\n\nOn the night of 2 and 3 December 1984 a toxic gas r
 elease from the Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal\, India caused t
 housands of deaths and hundreds of thousands of life-changing injuries. Fo
 rty years later\, the rusting factory equipment still towers above buried 
 hazardous waste in the abandoned factory. I visited the site of the former
  Union Carbide site in Bhopal India to try to understand what went so horr
 ibly wrong.\n\n1. What caused the worst accident in the history of the che
 mical industry?\n2. Why was the accident never properly investigated?\n3. 
 What can we learn about process safety from revisiting the accident?\n4. W
 hy has no clean-up been undertaken in 40 years?
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 1\, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotec
 hnology\, West Cambridge Site
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