Comments by "Keit Hammleter" (@keithammleter3824) on "The Stockline Plastics Disaster | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror" video.

@Erin-rg3dw : It sounds like safety procedures in a lot of companies to me - tick and flick exercises without proper thinking about what the risks might be. Corrosion of underground pipes is something as expected as the sun coming up each day. People get stuck on following written procedures and don't ask themselves "what could go wrong" because they think just following procedure is all that is required of them. I've worked in the mining industry, in which companies spend $millions on safety - but the accident rate and death numbers continue to outstrip all other industries, for the above reason. You can't drive accident rates towards zero with tick and flick and processes. You can only do it by inspiring everyone to think, imagine, and act. In short - yes, they certainly did cut corners through negligence. Thats' why they got fined.
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@ledoynier3694 : True. Another cause of accidents is companies employing external consultants to write safety training courses and safety procedures. This leads to things being written by people who know nothing about the particulars of the site, but think they do. For instance a company I worked for had some very large UPS systems for their mainframe computers. These had rooms full of lead acid battery banks - 400 volts and capable of supplying 500 kW for several hours. I and a few others were required to complete a battery safety course run by a training contractor. This turkey knew nothing about batteries, but he had gone to a public library and looked up safety aspects of batteries for laptop computers.
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They only got fined 200,000 pounds. That's just about petty cash for a company the size of ICL. Their lawyers probably advised them it would be cheaper to plead guilty and accept the fine that it would be to fight it, even if clever corporate lawyers could get them out of it.
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