People Problems

Written by Henry Davis May 12, 2010 Hits: 2049 Favorites

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Here we are weeks after the US Gulf drilling rig failure and the facts are finally coming to light.

While there may be no or little opportunity for technology to completely eliminate systematic failure. In the BP drilling rig failure, the root problem is looking more like a failure of people to do their jobs correctly. Pressure readings present in each of three lines showed an unacceptable variation. People knew it. People saw it. People knew that it signaled problems.

Why didn't any of those people take action?

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Complacency.

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Reviewed by Mike Burr
May 17, 2010

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Because 1. We've always done it that way.
2. It's never happened before.
3. I never knew that meant catastrophic failure could happen.
4. I didn't know how important it was.
5. I didn't get training.
etc. etc. The list can go on and on. Suffice it to say the military aviation world has the same issues, and yet they still have incidents. The biggest factor is Complacency Kills. When we see something that is normally an issue, it causes the hackles to raise on the back of our neck. We know to act. The problem is we become accustomed to the situation and we forget to pay attention to those same warnings. This is how human error mishaps occur.

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