Industrial crises and disasters threaten the most fundamental human rights to life and health. The existing paradigm for protecting these rights is based on industry self-regulation and government policing. The inadequacy of this approach is evident in thousands of industrial accidents that kill and injure hundreds of thousands of victims each year. To cope with these crises we need new participative policing systems, complete hazard assessments, worker and community hazard indemnity funds, more equitable sharing of risks, international actions for coping with industrial hazards, and citizen and worker empowerment.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
A Community Action Resource Manual on Hazardous Technologies. Penang, Malaysia: International Organization of Consumers Unions, 1985.
2.
Baxi, U. (Ed.) Inconvenient Forum and Convenient Catastrophe: The Bhopal Case, and Mass Disasters and Multinational Liability: The Bhopal Case. Bombay: Tirpath (for the Indian Law Institute), 1986.
3.
Citizens Commision on Bhopal, "Recommendations on Worker and Community Involvement and Empowerment in Industrial Plant Safety." New York: Citizens Commission on Bhopal, December 1985 (a).
4.
Citizens Commission on Bhopal, "Recommendations on International Principles of Industrial Plant Safety." New York: Citizens Commission on Bhopal, December I985 (b).
5.
International Coalition for Justice in Bhopal, We Must Not Forget-A Plea for Justice for the Victims. ICJIB Special Report, July 1987, Council on International and Public Affairs, New York.
6.
Everest, L.Behind the Poison Cloud: Union Carbide's Bhopal Massacre. New York: Banner Press, 1986.
7.
Morehouse W. and M. Subramaniam, The Bhopal Tragedy: What Really Happened and What it Means for American Workers and Communities at Risk. New York: Council on International and Public Affairs, 1986.
8.
New York Times "Industry chiefs back U.S. Curbs on polluted air." New York Times, 27 March, 1985.
9.
Perrow C.Normal Accidents. New York: Basic Books, 1984.
10.
Shrivastava P.Bhopal: Anatomy of a Crisis. Cambridge, Mass: Ballinger, 1987.
11.
Sengupta A. and P. Shah, "MIC and related poisonings." Bhopal Genocide and Its Aftermath, a Special Report by the Madhya Pradesh Vigyan Sabha, Bhopal: December, 1985.
12.
Surendra, L.Bhopal: Industrial Genocide? Hong Kong: Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives (ARENA), 1985.
13.
Weir D. and M. Shapiro, Circle of Poison. San Francisco: Institute for Food and Development Policy, 1981.
