THE CHALLENGE OF CHEMICAL DISASTER AND MANAGEMENT

For better living standard of life, man developed science and technology and plunder natural resources which thereby polluting environment. Continuous load of manmade pollutant into environment cause adverse series of disasters from time to time. There are manmade disasters such as London smog, minamata disaster, Bhopal disaster, Chernobyl disaster etc. There are long list of toxic chemicals such as asbestos, lead, arsenic, formaldehyde, PVC vinyl, having vast uses in industry and also led to harmful disasters. Our society is hooked on chemical of its own making. These toxic chemical are highly toxic, explosive, flammable, or poisonous or having a combination of all these characteristics. Their impact is very high and cause harm to human, living creatures, plant, property and environment It is emphasized that strengthens of preventive measures such as fire services, medical authorities team, paramedics, local administration has vital role in formulating the mitigation plans. To mitigate chemical disaster, stress is given to create appropriate infrastructure i.e. on-site and off-site plans including public address system. To cope up the problem of chemical disaster is a challenging task. There is need to generate awareness program regarding chemical risk and expected role during emergencies. It i