Labor Accidents in Oil and Gas Industry in 2010

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The flaws and causes: The flaws and causes were later analyzed and then categorized as: Bad design decisions of the fire-fighting equipment (due to coupling and hence was ineffective), high chances of propagation of fire, inappropriate fire escape routes, no separation of production and the rest of the units, wrong decisions of production and expansion by having all units cluttered, improper management of personnel and hiring wrong people and lack in maintenance. Another flaw was that priority was given to production over safety, which means that small incidents were avoided in order to get good insurance but there was no facility to avoid or handle a catastrophic situation like this. There was less economic margin and more importance given to profit making over investment in safety. The government and safety regulations were not to mark either (Paté-Cornell,1992). The incident was clearly due to human factors issue with procedure and it caused a lot of improvements in standards.

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