Piper Alpha: Ethics Case Study No. 2

Deborah Grubbe, P.E., C.Eng, former safety director for companies including BP and DuPont, explains the challenges of building a safety culture and the organizational failures that can lead to disasters such as the Piper Alpha oil rig explosion.

[@consumerelitist6508]

This is an extremely professional individual.

[@KeithWilliamMacHendry]

This lady is just superb she clearly puts the value of human life before uncontrolled profit gain. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙🇺🇸 Love from a Scotsman who worked in the North Sea oil & gas platforms off Scotland. My dear friend Sandy MacNeish lost his uncle Sandy Robertson on the Piper Alpha platform on that fateful night on the 6th of July 1988. What these poor souls went through was truly awful. They are loved ❤️

[@nigelh3253]

An excellent summary of the Piper Alpha disaster was given here. As the speaker said, other oil fields kept feeding gas and oil into Piper, which was the collection point. Wrong decisions at Tartan and Claymore fields lead to 168 deaths and the destruction of an oil rig. Yes, lessons have been learned, and procedures changed, but at what cost, both human and material.

[@petermartyn9509]

Exactly correct about shutting down. I would have shut down

[@amydamjanovic9183]

It was just common sense to shut them down, but unfortunately the supervisors at the other platforms didn't seem to have any that night.

[@RichDavey]

I would feel safe if this person was in charge of the safety in my company. Very smart 👍

[@waterwaysgreece3184]

In this video we learn the essence of H&S in nowaday 's world. Mrs Grubbe 's words act as a real lighthouse for engineers

[@carlosacosta1453]

Loved the video - I didn't know the other platforms were still pumping gas into the Piper Alpha platform (even though it was already on fire) / Thanks a lot

[@dale116dot7]

8:10 is quite powerful.

[@KrustyNuts69]

Thank you, a cracking vid.

[@evab.6240]

Very interesting and insightful.

[@katiebraithwaite6206]

If you get beyond learning then you’re in for problems 🙌🏻

[@frogmanant]

Everyone knows Ghandi's ' Live every day as if you will die tomorrow'> Not many know he followed it with 'Learn every day as if you will live forever'.

[@Srouji23]

Awesome video, thanks for the share!

[@user-bc4hl3dg3v]

I will deliver a very, very important message that this world will come one day and end you will have to do something for your end Everyone who is not a Muslim will enter fire and not know what the next fire will suffer in the tomb This is a narrow, dark room Whatever good you will suffer because you do not believe in one God who has no partner for that I want to advise you I want you to read about Islam and the Quran in which there is the word of God and the word of your God who created I want you to read and decide whether to choose fire or heaven before you deeply regret it. You and your conscience choose what you want.

[@secularapple]

In many industries and countries, attention to safety will lead to profits. In some, unfortunately, it doesn't or isn't feasible. Consider U.S. coal and Bangladesh's textiles.

[@fabriziodelgado7442]

8:30- 8:33 The hard truth of engineers

[@petermartyn9509]

Piper A legal case was a sham! That's from someone who spent 27 years in North Sea

[@kenchorney2724]

No one was charged, no one went to prison. The rich got richer, the dead are still dead. Business as usual.

[@lucianpollington4194]

A good lady who could be perhaps slightly more to the point.

[@petermartyn9509]

This is rubbish! This accident was man made