Managing Major Hazards: The Lessons of the Moura Mine Disaster

ISBN-13: 9780367718695 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 160 str.

Andrew Hopkins

Opis

Many organisations live with hazards that have the potential to cause disaster. This was the case at Moura underground coal mine in Central Queensland, where 11 men died in an explosion in 1994.

Andrew Hopkins shows that the explosion was the result of organisational failure, and uses it to draw lessons about managing major hazards.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments, Pronunciation note, Abbreviations, Glossary, 1. Introduction, 2. Perspectives on disaster, 3. The communication system, 4. Cultural impediments to recognising danger: the need to structure decision making, 5. The failure of management responsibility, 6. Auditing, 7. Was Moura safety-conscious?, 8. Production before safety?, 9. The role of BHP, 10. The 'safety pays' argument, 11. The regulatory system, 12. Conclusion, Appendix 1: Company and management hierarchies, Appendix 2: Australian mine disasters, References, Index

O autorze

Andrew Hopkins is senior lecturer in Sociology at the Australian National University and has published extensively in the area of occupational health and safety. He is author of Making Safety Work and co-author of Working for Change.