Lab 01 - Looking at the Deepwater Horizon Accident
Contents
Read the case study
Read the reflection
Leading Causes: * Oversight and ignorance of small issues - avalanche effect * Safety fatigue; Less failsafes = better fail-safing * Workers - Collaboration; shifts; handovers * Standards - Accountability
Recommendations
1) Training - if you don’t know what you’re doing, you don’t know what you’ve forgot to do. Drills, procedure
2) Reduce presence of failsafes
Reduce failsafe fatigue - overconfidence, overcomplication
3) Rehabilitation over Retribution
Reporting, review
4) Better accounting, reporting, monitoring Better procedure, stricter review of project, sensoring
Other groups:
- Other ways to stop flow, rather than just cutting
- Testing procedure - simulations
Communication
External audits
Alarm fatigue
Mentor’s Ideas:
- Less alarms (Do all of them matter)
- Reduce the penalty for minor infractions (Be comfortable with self reporting)