A review on hazards and their consequences in firework industries

Abstract

Most of the firework products that India consumes are manufactured from Sivakasi, a town in Virudhunagar district in the state of Tamil Nadu. The manufacturing process in the firework industries involves manual handling of various chemicals. Hence firework industries are known to be highly hazardous. The aim of this article is to review the hazards involved in the firework industries, causes for accidents and effects of fireworks in air quality. Majority of the previous studies focussed on unsafe acts and unsafe conditions and reported that human error was the major reason for the accident to occur. But there was no proven research that the firework accidents were only due to human error. In addition to this, risk assessment plays a vital role to mitigate accidents. So in order to evaluate the hazards in firework industries, Risk Assessment for Safety and Health and Chemical Health Risk Assessment techniques can be adopted as they are associated with both safety and health risk. Hence from this review study it was observed that, conducting risk assessment and identifying the probable human error in each process will prevent further accidents.