Andrew Hopkins

Managing Major Hazards

The lessons of the Moura Mine disaster

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 195g
• ISBN-13: 9781865087023
• ISBN-10: 1865087025
• Artikelnr.: 60002361

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Glossary Pronunciation note 1 Introduction 2
Perspectives on disaster 3 The communcation 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
hierarchy Appendix 2 Australian mine disasters