Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Tunnel vision engineering -- Chapter 3. Confirmation bias: the well integrity test -- Chapter 4. Falling dominos: the failure of defence-in-depth -- Chapter 5. The meaning of safety -- Chapter 6. Choosing the right measures and making them matter -- Chapter 7. Organisational structure -- Chapter 8. Learning -- Chapter 9. Management walk-arounds -- Chapter 10. Regulation -- Chapter 11. Some popular accounts of the Macondo accident -- Chapter 12. Conclusion -- Appendix 1. The decision tree -- Appendix 2. The BP risk matrix
Summary
Takes the reader into the realm of human and organisational factors that contributed to the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010. This event resulted in the loss of 11 lives, the sinking of the rig and untold damage to the environment. It is important to know what people did, but even more important to know why they did it. Hopkins from ANU
Analysis
Australian
Environmental & Heritage Law (Australia)
Occupational health & safety (Australia)
Organisational theory & behaviour (Australia)
Notes
Reprinted January 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-188) and index
