2nd Edition
Managing Major Hazards The lessons of the Moura Mine disaster
By Andrew Hopkins
Copyright 2001
160 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
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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. He argues that there are always tell-tale signs of impending... Read more
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
Biography
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.
