The Piper Alpha disaster : a personal perspective with transferrable lessons on the long-term moral impact of safety failures

Reid, Marc (2020) The Piper Alpha disaster : a personal perspective with transferrable lessons on the long-term moral impact of safety failures. ACS Chemical Health & Safety, 27 (2). pp. 88-95. ISSN 1878-0504 (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chas.9b00022)

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Abstract

The 1988 Piper Alpha disaster remains one of the worst safety-related accidents of its kind in the Oil & Gas sector. However, whereas the myriad lessons learned from this disaster are common knowledge among chemical and process engineers, the valuable safety lessons from this harrowing story are arguably not so obvious to laboratory chemists. Herein, a breakdown of and personally lived long-term perspective on the Piper Alpha accident is provided to show the transferrable lessons available for improving chemical laboratory safety culture.

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  • Item type:Article
    ID code:72109
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    23 March 2020
    Published
    19 February 2020
    Published Online
    13 February 2020
    Accepted
    Subjects:Science > Chemistry
    Department:Faculty of Science > Pure and Applied Chemistry
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:21 Apr 2020 09:18
    Last modified:21 Nov 2024 01:18
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/72109
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