CSB Chair Says Focus on Broader Safety Indicators Needed to Prevent Oil Industry Disasters

"Better safety data could help prevent oil industry
disasters,” says Rafael Moure-Eraso, chair of U.S.
Chemical Safety Board (CSB), in an op-ed piece published on the Houston Chronicle website. Discussing
how statistics can be misleading, Moure-Eraso uses the example of the March
2005 explosion at a Texas City BP refinery that killed 15 workers. The incident
occurred shortly after refinery