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The Piper Alpha Disaster: A Personal Perspective with Transferrable Lessons on the Long-Term Moral Impact of Safety Failures

“…From the public inquiry led by Lord Cullen, a timeline of the accident has been mapped out, delineating the combination of events that led to the first explosion. While this timeline can be (and has been) articulated in several different ways, − a simplified timeline is presented (Table ) and focuses on the main events that occurred on 6th–7th July, 1988.…”

“…Following 12 years of successful operation, the Piper Alpha became the first ever offshore platform to be lost to disaster. The in-depth investigation into the disaster revealed the harrowing series of events that led to its untimely demise . Working primarily from scattered eye-witness accounts and serendipitous photographs taken from neighboring boats, the root cause of the disaster was determined over the course of a two-year investigation.…”

“…For Piper Alpha, two separate permits to work (one dealing with a safety valve, the other dealing with its separately located pump) led to ineffective and incomplete information for two different groups of workers. Fateful decisions that were made with regards to activating the pump that was not fitted with an appropriate safety valve thus led to an unintended but altogether catastrophic accident. Root cause analysis : It was a full two years after the Piper Alpha disaster that the official inquiry was published . It covers two volumes, one of which was in part dedicated to analyzing the “root cause” of the disaster.…”

“…Root cause analysis : It was a full two years after the Piper Alpha disaster that the official inquiry was published . It covers two volumes, one of which was in part dedicated to analyzing the “root cause” of the disaster.…”