I started going to lesbian bars where I wooed women with tales of my courage in the face of the accident, where I'd take my prosthetic leg off and whomp it proudly on the bar.
Steffy focuses unrelentingly on BP's persistent failure to change its management culture, which "clung to fundamental principles that emphasize financial performance over safety, not overtly, but subtly". Even in the face of deadly accidents, BP failed to refocus on "process safety," in which risk assessment is paramount in every aspect, from engineering to refining.
Powerlessness, after all, is central to fear: that's why people who cheerfully drive in the face of grim road accident figures can be petrified at the statistically safer prospect of flying.
When, for example, he happened to recognise the face of a road accident victim in an ITN bulletin, he ruled that in future no close-ups were to go out.
In 2003, in the face of errors and accidents caused by medical and surgical trainees, the American Council of Graduate Medical Education mandated a reduction in resident work hours to eighty per week.
By newly establishing a driving simulator assessment system for patients with visual impairment, we found that this system successfully enabled patients with glaucoma to understand the specific risks they face of motor vehicle accidents in a variety of common driving situations.
Besides being recruited by illegal armed groups, children face the danger of accidents caused by landmines and unexploded ordnance.
That research should also engage the community, Goldstein says, because statements attesting to the safety of shale gas development made by industry and regulatory agencies lack credibility in the face of a growing litany of accidents and contamination problems.
It was only in late January, in the face of mounting evidence that accidents were being caused by a fault in the throttle mechanism of its cars that Toyota finally began a worldwide recall of 8m vehicles.
In the US Toyota is battling to save its reputation in the face of lawsuits linked to accidents, an investigation by highway authorities and mounting criticism of its handling of the crisis by the Obama administration.
