CAN THE ALUMINIUM INDUSTRY LEARN FROM ANOTHER INDUSTRY'S CATASTROPHE?

摘要

On April 20, 2010, an explosion rocked the Deepwater Horizon inrnthe Gulf of Mexico. Resulting in the deaths of 11 workers. Overrn400,000 pages of evidence were collected during the investigationrnfor the root cause of the explosion[5].rn"What emerges is stark and singular fact: crew members died andrnsuffered terrible injuries because every one of the Horizon'srndefenses failed on April 20. Some were deployed but did notrnwork. Some were activated too late, after they had almostrncertainly been damaged by fire or explosions. Some were neverrndeployed at all.[1]"rnParallels with the aluminium industry standout when comparingrnthe Deepwater Horizon disaster (e.g., violent explosions,rndamaged equipment, worker deaths and worker injuries). The listrnof aluminium industry catastrophes is not short: Binzhou WeiqiaornAluminum (Photo2), Reynolds Alabama, Alcan France, etc.rnAluminium plants, just as deepwater oil rigs, value training andrnsafety measures to prevent accidents from occurring. But, onrnApril 20, 2010 every safety measure employed failed, could thernsafety measures employed in a casthouse to prevent a moltenrnmetal steam explosion fail too?