{"id":83099,"date":"2021-02-17T10:30:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T05:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=83099"},"modified":"2021-02-17T11:44:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T06:14:36","slug":"causes-of-accidents-in-firework-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/causes-of-accidents-in-firework-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Causes of accidents in firework industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Synopsis: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Labour reforms and technological advances within the fireworks industry is the need of the hour to minimise the causes of accidents in the firework industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Introduction\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thousands of workers in Tamil Nadu\u2019s famed fireworks&#8217; industry are working in unsafe conditions. It resulted in a series of accidents. Such as<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">20 workers died and 28 injured in the latest accident at a fireworks unit in Virudhunagar.\u00a0 These incidents take place <\/span><b>due to gross violation of norms governing the industry <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and human error in handling explosive substances.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">25 lives were lost in an accident in three fireworks factories in Virudhunagar (9), Cuddalore (9), and Madurai (7) in the past 11 months.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>After such accidents, only short-term action is taken. It<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0includes <\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Registration and identification of cases, <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arrest the person responsible for an accident<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Symbolic inspections, <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Issuance of warnings and safety advisories<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What are the causes of such accidents?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>First,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> t<\/span>here is a large-scale <b>illegal sub-leasing of workers <\/b>for licenced firework units.<\/li>\n<li><b>Second,<\/b> <b>there is a violation of the limit on workers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to be deployed. This leads to crowding in each shed.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Third, <\/b>there is a<b> piece-rate system in payment<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (payment to workers is provided based on the number of firecrackers produced by workers). People are tempted to produce more units per day. For example, a tired worker hurriedly emptied semi-finished crackers, which caused the recent accident.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Fourth, <\/b>there is also a\u00a0<b>lack of trained workers. <\/b>This <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">encouraged the industry to hire new workers with limited skills leading to accidents.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Fifth, <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Unlicensed units have expanded. <\/strong>They mostly escape the inspection until an accident occurs.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The way forward<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Supervision of the chemicals<\/strong> to be mixed or stored is a key task to avoid casualty.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There should be<strong> periodic inspections<\/strong> at factories and <strong>strict penal action<\/strong> against violators. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Central and State governments must <strong>provide the needed manpower<\/strong> for enforcement agencies as the industry has grown manifold.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A <strong>continuous political push for labor reforms<\/strong> and <strong>technological innovations<\/strong> within the industry is also essential.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis: Labour reforms and technological advances within the fireworks industry is the need of the hour to minimise the causes of accidents in the firework industry. Introduction\u00a0 Thousands of workers in Tamil Nadu\u2019s famed fireworks&#8217; industry are working in unsafe conditions. It resulted in a series of accidents. Such as 20 workers died and 28&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/causes-of-accidents-in-firework-industry\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Causes of accidents in firework industry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[1302],"class_list":["post-83099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-eco_7","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}