Sentence examples for large-scale accidents from inspiring English sources

Large-scale accidents have sometimes led to anger at the government, especially when the country's somewhat cavalier approach to safety has played a role.

Today, there are four senior White House officials with partial responsibility for biodefense, but each of them is also responsible for a raft of other issues, like natural disasters, terrorism and large-scale accidents like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

At Kosovo' s border, the situation is very unsettled and the regime in Belgrade is creating a climate in which large-scale accidents are likely.

Thus, I is a problem associated with large-scale accidents or failures at nuclear facilities, whereas I is a problem related to environmental remediation and long-term stewardship of disposed nuclear waste.

Since that time, there has been a growing interest in applying concepts and constructs from STS to the broad domain of safety, including aspects of occupational risk, injury and health (e.g. Kleiner 2004; Carayon 2006) as well as work which attempts to understand the causes of large-scale accidents and disasters (Rasmussen 1997; Leveson 2012).

Because of this scale of production, huge numbers of farmed salmon escape (during routine handling and large-scale accidents) from both freshwater and marine aquaculture at all life stages (reviewed in Gross 1998; Naylor et al. 2005; Thorstad et al. 2008).

Because this is the first large-scale accident involving aluminum sludge, experts are feeling their way in the cleanup.

The widespread adoption of limited liability status began a trend towards a concentration of ownership, reducing some of the economic risks involved in coalmining: unstable coal prices, inflated acquisitions, geological difficulties, and large scale accidents.

But a string of large-scale industrial accidents across the country in recent years, including five chemical explosions since April, have raised questions about whether companies, prioritizing the danger of lost profits over the risk of accidents, are bothering to implement often costly safety precautions or to comply with regulations.

To produce such information we have developed an operational centre for managing large-scale industrial accidents.

Large-scale transport accidents in West Bengal are common, particularly the sinking of transport boats and train crashes.