Disastrous Decisions: The Human and Organisational Causes of the Gulf of Mexico Blowout
- ISBN-10
- 1921948779
- ISBN-13
- 9781921948770
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 194
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- CCH Australia Limited
- Author
- Andrew Hopkins
Description
Takes the reader into the realm of human and organisational factors that contributed to the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010. This event resulted in the loss of 11 lives, the sinking of the rig and untold damage to the environment. It is important to know what people did, but even more important to know why they did it. Hopkins from ANU.
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