Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Case Study and Ethical Considerations

Individual report

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
TASK ( Individual report)...............................................................................................................3
Case study...................................................................................................................................3
Introduction to case.....................................................................................................................3
Causes of disaster: ......................................................................................................................3
Legal action ................................................................................................................................4
Code of ethical conduct ..............................................................................................................5
Ethical position of the parent US Union Carbide company........................................................6
CONCLSUION................................................................................................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................6
books and journal .......................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Business law can be defined as that body of law of which helps in regulating business
function in appropriate ways so that ethical standards can be meet (Island, 2020). This provide a
structural framework to business firm in order to establish systematic approach for meeting
requirements of clients (Bhaduri, 2019). In relation to current report, Bhopal Gas tragedy will be
focused. This is an inclusion of various discussions for moral consideration with regards to
position of an organisation.
MAIN BODY
TASK
Case study
Introduction to case
This case study include discussion about Bhopal gas tragedy. This is based on plant of
Carbide subsidiary; it is pesticides making firm. Company is using different gases and materials
in order to manufacture pesticides in its plant situated in Bhopal, India. This tragedy is related to
gas leak in plant of this organisation (Amyotte and Khan, 2019). This tragedy occurred in year
1984 on 3 Dec., in the process being for about 40 tonnes of methyl isocyanate gas was being
leaked, which resulted in causing deaths in mass number for about 5 lakh people living in that
area. This created panic situation in Bhopal and cause number of deaths due to toxic gas. This
also resulted in formation of International Medical Council (Sharma, 2016). This act as
government body which will look after different matter regarding health effects of disaster. This
will help in addressing issues as well as fulfilling ethical requirement.
Causes of disaster:
This disaster was happened at the time when employees of firm are working. This was
happened in year 1984. At its time company is performing with its effective capacity of 5000
tonnes. Here, company was working to full fill an order of 2500 tone (Mishra, 2018). This brings
clear understanding of the subject matter that, the real cause of this tragedy was not because of
any overloading lodges or any issues related to capacity of containers. With addition to that, it
also analysed that sales activities of respective business firm faced a downfall in that particular
year. In order to improve this, firm is performing its function of cut cost of production and