Focuses on the human and organisational causes of the Macondo blowout. Professor Andrew Hopkins analyses the organisational factors that contributed to poor engineering decisions made with all the judgements centred on commercial risk. Little consideration for major hazard risk was given. Why was there no focus on major hazard risk? The distinction between process safety and personal safety that Hopkins makes, answers this question. It is important to understand the human and organisational causes discussed in this program so as to prevent such accidents from occurring. 40 minutes.
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