An explosion at BP’s Texas City refinery illustrates how an organisation’s structure can undermine the effective management of process safety risk. The Incident On 23
If you’re a board director who relies solely on the preferred safety metrics of ESG rating agencies, you could be blind to your fatal and
Over the last five parts of our Miami Bridge collapse series, we’ve explored the events surrounding the failure of the Florida International University (FIU) bridge
In Part 4 of our Miami Bridge collapse series we discussed how bridge design is, simplistically speaking, a process of ensuring that the ‘actions’, e.g.,
We ended Part 3 of our Miami Bridge failure series with a quote from Bruce Landsberg of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB): “A bridge-building
As part of the Brady Review into fatalities in the mining and quarrying industry, we examined the causes of Serious Accidents. These types of accidents
The failure during construction of the West Gate Bridge in Melbourne, Australia in 1970 was one of world’s worst bridge collapses. Thirty five people died
A curious paradox lies at the heart of trying to understand why the Miami bridge collapsed. The more details you learn of what happened, the
In Part 1 of our Miami Bridge failure series we discussed how re-tensioning Member 11, undertaken to close cracks in the concrete, led to the bridge’s sudden
In the early afternoon of 15 March 2018, a partially constructed pedestrian bridge at the Florida International University collapsed. It fell 5.6 m to the highway
We recently had the shocking collapse of a pedestrian bridge at Florida International University (FIU). Six people have lost their lives, an investigation has begun,
