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| Courtesy U.S. Coast Guard/Atlanta Area |
As part of a statement issued to recognize the fourth anniversary of the April 20, 2010,
Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, CSB Chair Rafael Moure-Eraso announced that the first two volumes of the agency’s investigation report on the explosion will be released June 5. “The forthcoming CSB investigation report has a singular focus: preventing such an accident from happening again,” Moure-Eraso said, adding this report will explore issues not fully covered elsewhere, such as:
- new findings concerning the failures of a key piece of safety equipment (the blowout preventer);
- a comparison of the attributes of regulatory regimes in other parts of the world to that of the existing framework and the safety regulations established in the U.S. offshore since Macondo.
- in-depth analysis of needed safety improvements in organizational factors, such as the industry’s approach to risk management, corporate governance of safety management for major incident prevention and workforce involvement through the life cycle of hazardous operations.
Volume 1 will summarize events leading up to the explosions and fire on the rig, while Volume 2 will present several new critical technical findings. CSB expects to issue Volume 3 (regulatory oversight of the offshore industry) and Volume 4 (contributing organizational and cultural factors) later in 2014. For the latest updates, visit
www.csb.gov.
