How do you know it won't happen to you?

摘要

In addition to the immediate human, environmental and financial costs of these incidents, we are witnessing escalating effects upon the reputations of the companies involved, their senior executives and the industry as a whole. Increasingly, senior executives are being called to account in public and under the gaze of the world's media networks. The incidents have also inevitably led to increased scrutiny by the regulators and governments. The dramatic impact of some of these incidents upon the share prices of the involved companies has caused some institutional investors to question the security of their investments in the high hazard industries.