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After Ten Years: Working on the Wrong Problem

Wayne Hale · 13 Jan 2013

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  1. Our reading

    The Columbia investigation focused on the wrong part of the wing: the engineers were analysing tiles when the damage was to the leading edge.

    Their wordsSo all the discussion in the accident report about the flaws in the tile analysis are simply not applicable.

  2. Our reading

    Disasters come from organisational conditions, not from bad individuals, so blaming a person prevents the fix.

    Their wordsSo don’t blame an individual; looks for the organizational factors that lead to that kind of a mindset.

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