Disastrous Decisions takes the reader into the realm of human and organisational factors that contributed to the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010. This event resulted in the loss of 11 lives, the sinking of the rig and untold damage to the environment as oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico. It is important to know what people did - but even more important to know why they did it.
Andrew Hopkins is an industrial safety expert from ANU. He has been an expert witness or on boards of enquiry for many of Australia's most famous disasters, including the Esso gas plant fire at Longford in Victoria in 1998.
