Industry and Hazardous Materials

Hazardous materials (Hazmat) are found in many different locations in Israel, and primarily serve industrial installations, cooling plants, marketing companies, and more.

These materials include by definition any material that presents a danger to human life and health by inhaling fumes, swallowing, contact with skin or eyes, explosion or radiation of heat, and any material defined as such by law.

Hazmat are generally divided into four sub-categories:

 poisonous and infections ,  flammable , explosive  and radioactive.

Storing large quantities of hazardous materials without supervisions and in contradiction of standards and directions is liable to endanger the public. An event during which a hazardous material is no longer under the control of the designated systems, processes or the human element is called a Hazmat event. Such events might be caused by natural disasters (fires, earthquakes) or wartime damages (missiles and shelling, explosives, terrorist strikes, etc.).

Damage to Hazmat stockpiles is liable to have a severe impact on human life and property.

As a result of such damage, the material is dispersed as a gas or aerosol.

The spread of these materials into the atmosphere represents a danger to anyone coming into direct contact with them.

Likewise, it is dangerous simply to be in the area because of how materials might react with one another or with anyone who comes into contact with them (destruction and burns as a result of a series of explosions or fires).

The formation of aerosol clouds in populated areas is liable to cause mass poisoning, pollution of water sources as a result of poisons entering the water cycle, damage to purification plants as a result of these materials entering the sewage system, and paralysis of the microbiological system that purifies waste.