What are safety measures of handling explosives?

Answer 1

Explosive eruptions present a number of dangers.

• Pyroclastic flows are hot, avalanche-like masses of ash, rock, and gas that move quickly down the slopes of a volcano, burning everything they strike
• Ash spewed into the sky falls back to the ground. It can be deadly if it is inhaled. It clogs the engines of planes in flight. Heavy ash fall can cause roofs to collapse.
• Ash that mixes with water can form mudflows called lahars. These mudflows move like floods, but they are about as dense as concrete and they can quickly bury entire towns.
• Some eruptions, such as the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens can produce violent lateral explosions that can level anything caught in them.
• Even relatively small explosive eruptions can hurl blocks of rock several miles.

Answer 2

This encompasses several books of information- but in brief, they are measures directed at protecting explosives from an unplanned detonation, OR limiting damage that would occur from an unplanned detonation. This includes proper storage, transport and handling. A related issue is the SECURE storage and handling of explosives to prevent the loss or theft of explosives. For example- explosives are stored in an approved storage magazine, separated for detonators, with a non-sparking lining, without sources of ignition, in a bullet resistant structure, and limits are placed on the total quantity of explosives stored in one location.

Answer 3

Dangers of fireworks include, burns, scars, death, blindness, loss of hearing, and even seizures.

Answer 4

You can die, or can cause a major lethality.