Failure to Learn: The BP Texas City Refinery Disaster
Organizational Behavior Safety Management Industrial Engineering Disaster Studies Risk Management Chemical Engineering Business Ethics
Failure to Learn: The BP Texas City Refinery Disaster is the 2013 safety-management textbook that professionals reach for when they want a real-world case study on how catastrophic accidents happen—and how to stop the next one. Drawing on the 2005 Texas City explosion that killed 15 workers and injured scores more, eminent sociologist Andrew Hopkins dissects the organizational drift, cost-cutting pressures and communication breakdowns that turned routine operations into tragedy. Written in plain English and packed with timelines, diagrams and interview excerpts, the 318 g CCH Australia paperback delivers graduate-level insight without the dry academic prose, making it indispensable for HSE managers, process engineers, auditors and students preparing for CSP or CMIOSH qualifications.
What sets this edition apart is its forensic focus on learning systems rather than blame. Hopkins shows how BP’s emphasis on personal safety masked underlying process-safety weaknesses, why investigations repeatedly failed to produce change, and how a “safety culture” slogan can coexist with rising risk. Each chapter ends with actionable checklists that safety officers can drop straight into site procedures, while discussion questions make the book a ready-made training resource for corporate workshops or university courses on risk governance.
This clean, very-good-condition copy is the smart buy for anyone building a professional library: the 9781921322440 ISBN is often back-ordered new, so grabbing a gently-used paperback now keeps your project timeline on track. Whether you need to brief a board on major-accident hazards, prepare for a regulatory audit, or simply want a compelling read on organizational failure, Failure to Learn remains the definitive guide to ensuring history does not repeat itself on your watch.
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