Review the details of the Deep-water Horizon disaster on the Wikipedia article titled Deep-water Horizon
explosion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_explosion).
a) Many warning signs and incidents occurred before the explosion, but engineers and management chose to ignore them. List three of these problems, and explain how they should have warned of an impending disaster.
b) Why were operational problems and concerns about safety not reported to, or acted on, by the upper management responsible for the Deep-water Horizon?
2. Read the article titled Blowup by Malcolm Glad well (posted on Blackboard Assignments).
a) Explain what is meant by the term normal accident.
b) Why does our ever-growing reliance on complex safety systems in many aspects of our lives (e.g. anti-lock braking systems, network firewalls, smoke detectors, etc.) actually encourage people to take more risks than they would have otherwise?
3. Read the article titled No One Knew He Was There on the EHS Today website: http://ehstoday.com/safety/confined-spaces/ehs_imp_35065
a) How was Garcia killed? What was the official cause of death? Who was ultimately responsible for Garcias death?
b) List at least four general behaviors or actions that Garcia took, which violated accepted industry safe practices for work in confined spaces. (do not simply list four missing items of PPE, etc.)
c) Explain what was meant by near-miss confined space fatality in the article.
d) What is the main subject of the legal dispute between Garcia’s family and Reynolds?
4. The photographs below show a typical underground pump vault in a petroleum refinery. The pump is used to feed a liquid hydrocarbon stream (e.g. gasoline) to a nearby distillation tower.
a) Is the pump vault a permit-required confined space? Explain in terms of the formal definitions of confined spaces. What signage would be required for this area?
b) Using the Hazard Identification Tool which was distributed in class, identify at least three potential life-threatening hazards which might exist in the pump vault.
c) List the specific items of safety equipment that are required before anyone enters the vault to perform maintenance on the pump head.
d) List and describe the role of each person who is required to be involved in the maintenance operation.
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Added on 04.12.2015 18:51
Please ignore #2 don\”t do it
And I just uploaded the photographs

Please you have only an hour can you finish it?