Word: errors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whether through human error or mechanical failure, neither of those safety measures worked last week. The plant had been temporarily closed for maintenance two weeks before the accident, and both the methyl isocyanate storage tanks and the pipes connecting them were under repair. According to Madanlal Ranji, president of the plant's labor union, the scrubber was also in the process of being fixed. To make matters worse, a critical panel in the control room had been removed, perhaps as part of the maintenance program, thus preventing the leak from showing up on monitors...
Good engineering and careful inspections, however, are not enough, since the most frequent cause of accidents is human error. Companies and manufacturing groups have a continual program of training films, manuals and classroom instruction to educate workers on safety procedures and what to do in case of accidents. Allied says that as much as one-quarter of a manufacturing supervisor's time is devoted to health, safety and environmental training...
...many banks are making serious mistakes. Says Charles Zwick, chairman of Miami's Southeast Banking Corp. ($9.2 billion): "Bankers are forced to take on new risks, and many of them are guessing wrong." The business has become a high-wire act for managers, leaving them little room for error. A study by the Arthur Andersen accounting firm estimates that the number of banks in the U.S. will drop from the present 15,000 to 9,600 by the end of the decade...
...comforter before counting the sheep. Popular mythology lingers too long on the realization we can't imagine out parents of teachers making love; truth is, in out casinos of life, love is our baccarat table, to be sought by all but afforded only by the most beautiful people. "The error is common," writes author Alison Furie "since in the popular mind--and especially in the media--the idea of sex is linked with the idea of beauty...
...potentially dangerous cost-cutting practices. Among other violations, the FAA contended that the airline falsified safety records, failed to train its pilots properly, postponed aircraft inspections and allowed unqualified mechanics to maintain electrical gear. The emergency grounding gives credence to suspicions that were aroused in September by a tragic error. A propeller-driven PBA plane crash-landed and burned shortly after taking off from a Naples, Fla., airport; one passenger was killed and four others were injured. It was the first fatality in PBA's history. FAA investigators found that a member of PBA's ground crew...