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A system designed for disaster

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An explosion at BP’s Texas City refinery illustrated how an organisation’s structure can undermine the effective management of process safety risk.This is an opinion piece by forensic engineer Dr Sean Brady FIEAust CPEng based on the findings of an investigation report.On 23 March 2005, a distillation column at BP’s Texas City refinery was overfilled, causing hydrocarbons to escape and subsequently ignite, resulting in an explosion. Fifteen peop…
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Create broke the news on Wednesday, May 6, 2026.
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