{"product_id":"9781921322440","title":"Failure To Learn The Bp Texas City Refinery Disaster","description":"In Failure to Learn: The BP Texas City Refinery Disaster, respected OHS expert Professor Andrew Hopkins discusses the causes of a major explosion at the Texas City Oil Refinery on March 23, 2005, that killed 15 workers and injured more than 170 others. Failure to Learn also analyses the similarities between this event and the Longford Gas Plant explosion in Victoria in 1998, featured in his earlier book Lessons from Longford.\u003cbr\u003eProfessor Andrew Hopkins is being recognized by the European Process Safety Centre in October 2008, in recognition of his contribution to safety. Professor Hopkins is the first winner to receive the award, outside of Europe, which is a demonstration of the impact of his valuable work worldwide.\u003cbr\u003eAndrew has been awarded a prize by the European Process Safety Centre for \"extraordinary contribution to process safety\", the first time this has been awarded outside of Europe. He also appears in the US Chemical Safety Board film on Texas City and has been invited to appear in a subsequent film.\u003cbr\u003eProfessor Hopkins poses questions such as:\u003cbr\u003eWhy was the number of victims so large?\u003cbr\u003eWho was blamed for the explosion?\u003cbr\u003eWhat were the real causes?\u003cbr\u003eHad lessons been learnt from the earlier incident at Longford?\u003cbr\u003eHas anything changed as a result of the Texas City accident?\u003cbr\u003eThe foreword for the book was written by Carolyn Merritt, chair of the CSB at the time of the accident and subsequent inquiry.","brand":"CCH Australia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47052485624048,"sku":"9781921322440","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781921322440_p0.jpg?v=1764109722","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781921322440","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}