Johnson has even blamed risk-taking cyclists for causing many fatalities.
For societal risk managers, Black Box opening is a hazard which may create managerial risks (what Hood calls blame-risks) including public pillory and legal sanctions.
However, until you can be honest about your own weaknesses or share of the blame, you risk using lying or evasion of the truth to cover up your own sense of failing, especially if you have a tendency to compare yourself to others.
The leaders of both countries blame excessive risk-taking by bankers, motivated by the prospect of bonuses, for part of the economic crisis.
His group's report blamed excessive risk taking, often in trading of highly complex securities or in real estate-related lending, and excessive reliance on short-term funding, for helping create the financial crisis.
Relations with Russia are important, big countries mutter: why jeopardise them for a silly little country that has only itself to blame?That risks making a bad situation still worse.
Ofgem blames the risk on coal-fired power stations being closed sooner than expected and EU environmental legislation.
Some 90% of entrepreneurs in the study say the UK fundraising environment is challenging, with over a third blaming a "risk adverse" UK VC ecosystem.
And they are being condemned by a public that blames their risk-happy culture for setting off the current financial crisis.
At the same time, the banks — from UBS to Citigroup, from Goldman Sachs and Royal Bank of Scotland to Merrill Lynch and HSBC — are being condemned by a public that blames their risk-happy culture for sparking the current financial crisis.
Last week he assailed both European human rights law anathema to the right-wing press and the "compensation culture", both of which he blamed for risk-averse behaviour that makes life dull and expensive.
