Preventing Another Montara

If the operating eompany of the Montara development had been required to make a regulatory submission about relevant failures in industry and in their own operations - how they are identified and what lessons ean be learned - would the blowout have been less likely to oeeur  

If the justification for use of PCCCs had requ ired a review of where these devices had been used previously for well control, this could have revealed that the devices were not designed for the function for which they were proposed to be used on the Hi well. 

Attempts that have been made to date to incorporate these issues into consideration of risk have not been very successful, primarily because of the three issues described earlier difficulty in linking organisational factors into the current risk management tools lack of a universally agreed framework for organisation issues and a narrow understanding of the concept of risk leading to a misconception about what can and cannot reasonably be addressed in a safety case. 

Allard-Poesi, F. (2005) The paradox of sensemaking in organizational analysis . Organization, 

Antonsen, S. (2009) Safety culture and the issue of power . Safety Science, 47 1118-1128. Aven, T., Renn, O. and Rosa, E.A. (2011) On the ontological status of the concept of risk . Safety Science, 49 1074-1079. 

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