Understanding Fundamentals of Safety to Develop Risk Informed Business Strategies for Disaster Risk Reduction

Mohammad Iqbal Zaffar Ansari

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Understanding Fundamentals of Safety to Develop Risk Informed Business Strategies for Disaster Risk Reduction

Mohammad Iqbal Zaffar Ansari

Published in Science Journal of Business and Management (Volume 8, Issue 4)

Received: 24 October 2020 Accepted: 9 November 2020 Published: 27 November 2020

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Extreme changes are taking place in the climate and eco-system, thus we must act now to secure a safe, healthy and prosperous future of our planet earth. In fact there is no such thing as natural disaster we may term it as natural hazards, disasters often follow natural hazards. To understand the basic concepts and to adopt the sound practices of reducing the risk of disaster through systematic efforts by analysing and reducing the causal factors responsible for causing disasters is need of the hour for scientific community, law enforcement agencies and law abiding citizens of the country. Thus we have to think wisely and act smartly on all of our actions in every sphere of our works to save the mankind from future inferno of disasters. Through this research paper an effort has been made to put light on the need of developing resilience society for explosion mitigation amongst all the commercial explosives stake holders of India in line with the United Nation’s Sendai Framework Regulations for Disaster Risk Reduction. The statutory authority for controlling the current state of affairs in India is Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organization, which was formerly known as department of explosives and is entrusted with the administration of Explosives Act1884 and in service of the nation since 1898 with its Safety First Motto. Its last twelve year’s data of reported explosion accidents occurred in India are scientifically analyzed to draw the conclusions and recommendations were offered based on the inferred results with directions for future research, which is to be further explored in light of the available primary data by developing high end explosion scenarios to save the lives of high explosives stake holders from the future inferno of explosion accidents happening frequently in India, in spite of having quite intensive inspections mechanism and taking all due care and adopting all effective and preventive measures to avoid any explosion accident during the process of manufacturing, storage, transport, handling, possession for sale or use of commercial high explosives and manufactured fireworks in India. Confidently it is expected that the suggested recommendations will prove to be a mile stone in establishing the explosion resilient society for explosion mitigation and reducing the risk of disaster amongst commercial explosives stake holders of India and will inflame statutory authorities and law enforcing agencies to act wisely in the interest of people safety to avert apocalyptic situation like Beirut.

Published in	Science Journal of Business and Management (Volume 8, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.sjbm.20200804.11
Page(s)	154-160
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Commercial Explosives, Controller of Explosives, Disaster Risk Reduction, Explosion Mitigation, Explosion Resilience, Manufactured Fireworks, People Safety, Sendai Framework

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