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John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad - I wrote a book on the BP oil disaster, & there’s a critical parallel with ICE protests in Minnesota that almost everyone is missing.
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When the Deepwater Horizon explosion dominated Twitter for months, the narrative was simple: BP cut corners on safety.
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That story was comforting.
It was also wrong. Dead wrong.
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The disaster wasn’t caused by too little safety.
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It was caused by safetyism.
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Before the explosion, HR and HSE departments overwhelmingly filled with women who couldn't worked a dangerous job in their life became obsessed with eliminating all injuries offshore. Not major hazards. Not catastrophic risk. ALL injuries, even minor cuts & bruises.
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Tens of millions of dollars.
Thousands of hours of paperwork.
Endless training modules.