SWOH | Fraz IA - 3/18/2024 23:11
**** happens. People make mistakes. Always will, never gonna change.
Computers / Apps / AI / whatever - things still go wrong.
Can't prevent every bad outcome no matter how hard anybody tries.
In the end it's all about balance....aka cost/benefit.... aka risk management.
The thing is, events like this lead to over-reaction, aka over-regulation.
I agree with that. However I do believe when something like this happens you can prevent the exact same thing from happening again. Whether there was already a standard procedure in place that was supposed to eliminate this possibility that wasn’t followed or it was sabotage or it was just a freak failure of equipment…obviously the standard procedure failed. I don’t like regulations. I often go beyond what I’m supposed to do according to regulations. But you’re right, things still happen. And it often leads to more regulations and more cost to everybody. I’m interested in knowing exactly what failed in this case, if it was complacency, equipment failure, intentional, or poor design. I would say the risk management part would be you don’t want to lose a quarter of a million gallons of nitrogen, whether it ends up in a river or not, and I would think you don’t need regulations to make that obvious. And yet here we are. So we’ll probably end up with more regulations. |
Update on the fertilizer spill.
