An overview on the technological disasters

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide graduate students, researchers, governmental and independent agencies with an overview of technological disasters.Design/methodology/approach – Technological disasters are subjects of concern to researchers, academicians, governmental and independent agencies. Disasters are classified into natural and man‐made disasters. For an incident to be classified as a disaster, the disaster criteria should be met. Several disaster criteria have been proposed defining the disasters in terms of casualties, economic loss and environmental impact. The disasters which involve major hazard installations (MHIs) are known as technological disasters. The technological disaster definition, stages, types, criteria, factors, models have been reviewed. This paper presents an overview of technological disaster definition, criteria, stages, models, factors, and prevention.Findings – Although the technological disasters may occur at non‐MHIs, it has been noted that most of the tech...

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