Culture of complacency and process safety

A news article quotes the co-chairman of the Presidential commission for investigating what went wrong in the BP oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico as follows:

The commission's co-chairman William K. Reilly opened the day saying that a "suite of bad decisions" revealed "a culture of complacency" at BP as well as its main contractors Transocean and Halliburton. He concluded the day saying that the deepwater drilling disaster was the result of systemic problems, not isolated ones.

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