Causes of accident in Chemical industries:
1. Unsafe physical conditions: It includes improper machine guards, improper ventilation, inadequate ventilation, unsafe clothing etc.
2. Personal factors: Sometimes accidents occur due to personal problems like lack of knowledge, physical weakness, age, health etc.
3. Poor design and construction of equipment and machinery.
4. Untested boiler and pressure vessels
5. Unsafe acts. It is the violence of commonly accepted safe procedure.
These include
a. Working at unsafe speed ,loading machines beyond capacity, not using safety devices
b. Exposure to harmful substances
c. Insufficient information about chemical hazard
d. Inadequately trained man power
e. Inadequate safety and emergency equipment
f. Lack of written procedures regarding safety and emergency
6. Exposure to harmful substances
7. Insufficient information about chemical hazard
8. Inadequately trained man power
9. Inadequate safety and emergency equipment
10. Lack of written procedures regarding safety and emergency.