Uh, no. Managers were worried about profit. They didn't want to move the plant from a populated area. They cut training, pay and maintenance and ordered employees to ignore safety procedures. They also decided to use a cheaper but far more dangerous chemical, the one that escaped. Due to the management-ordered maintenance laxity, the cyanide tank built up dangerous levels of pressure. Due to management cuts in personnel, nobody was around who might have known of the danger and stopped it.
It was flat-out criminal. The responsible management should never see the light of day again.
Cheers!
...oh, and Merry Christmas.
You are making my statement. It is because of a lack of regulation, of safety mindedness, and the fact nothing gets done in India without bribes that makes the business environment in the subcontinent so attractive to U.S. businesses. They would like the U.S. to be that way.
On a visit to India I witnessed a child crushed by a panicked elephant. A tragedy. But people there ignored that little girl’s body lying in the dust. When I started yelling, someone came over and told me to shut up, that the child was “dalit”. They just left her body there, and all because she was an untouchable. That was in 1979. Maybe things have changed dramatically since then, and I, for one, certainly hope so.
I’ve worked in quality related positions in the Nuclear Power Industry. Many of my coworkers have been Indian. Most have no desire to go back to India. I know of no one, not myself nor any of the Indians I worked with who would have accepted lax safety regs or procedures. But if your people, your employees don’t live and breathe safety, all the laws in the world that punish businesses, won’t keep the public safe.