20 Examples of Technological Disasters

In the social sphere, the word disaster It is used to refer to the episodes in which an event occurs that causes a large part of a city or a country to be destroyed with enormous civil and material losses. People's capacity to react is overwhelmed, including institutions prepared to react to disasters of this kind.

The natural disasters They are the product of the action of nature, however, sometimes these are due in turn to human activity: the pollution and the erroneous and irrational exploitation of renewable natural resources produces a number of negative effects on nature, which has been shown to affect these types of disasters in the long run.

Technological disasters

The technological disasters are those accidents produced from the handling of dangerous equipment, which cause damage to the environment, health, socioeconomic component and also the productive infrastructure of a nation or a system. For example: pipeline explosion in Nigeria, tragedy in Amuay, in Venezuela.

For being about

technological advances, development often takes place in a planned way, and teams evolve taking into account possibilities of failure: a technological disaster implies the overcoming of all these alternatives, completely saturating the operation that is expected of the equipment or of the chemical substances.

Examples of technological disasters

Prevention and safety

The incidence of technological accidents was on the rise, as the technology progress was made, above all as a result of the production, storage and use of a greater number of new substances, and due to the invention of new technologies.

This is why much progress has been made in terms of prevention and alert about these situations. Any harmful or harmful material that during some of the stages of its generation may give off fumes, gases, vapors, dusts or fibers of a dangerous nature (explosive, flammable, toxic, infectious, radioactive or irritant) is considered a Dangerous substance and puts those who manipulate it on alert.

The industrial Security, the preparation of regulatory documents, the permanent updating of risk studies, drills and supervision in terms of protection against possible Technological disasters contribute to giving a better response and therefore to reducing possible risks, which is why most countries establish regulations when respect.

While generally the effects of technological disasters are seen directly at the moment when When these disasters occur, there are times when the consequences are long term. The chemical water pollution, the soil contamination, the food chain or common household products, as well as the adverse effects on the health or the environment can last for years, being the consequence of some disaster of this class.

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