Failure to learn : the BP Texas City refinery disaster / Andrew Hopkins.

By:

Hopkins, Andrew, 1945-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Sydney, N.S.W. : CCH Australia, 2008.Description: 1 vISBN:

9781921322440 (pbk.) :

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

363.11966553 22

Partial contents:

1. Introduction - - 2. Why did operators do the wrong thing ? - - 3. Vapour cloud - - 4. Ignition - - 5. Why so many deaths? - - 6. Blindness to major risk - - 7. In ability to learn - - 8. Cost cutting - - 9.Reward structure - - 10.The problem of decentralisation - - 11. Leadership - - 12.Blame - - 13. Culture 14. Regulation 15. Conclusion.

Summary: "This book discusses the causes of a major explosion at the Texas City Oil Refinery on March 23, 2005. The explosion killed 15 workers and injured more than 170 others. Failure to Learn also analyses the similarities between this event and the Longford Gas Plant explosion in Victoria in 1998."--Provided by publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
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Includes index.

"This book discusses the causes of a major explosion at the Texas City Oil Refinery on March 23, 2005. The explosion killed 15 workers and injured more than 170 others. Failure to Learn also analyses the similarities between this event and the Longford Gas Plant explosion in Victoria in 1998."--Provided by publisher.

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