Learning from failures: The case of Deepwater Horizon disaster

In this work, it is argued that learning from failures and safety competence should be an important part of the curriculum of engineering and management students. The case of Deepwater Horizon will be used to illustrate how to learn about learning from failures using multi-models inspired by reliability and risk analysis in order to investigate disasters. This type of analysis can offer richness to our understanding of the root causes and provide insight into policy making and support decisions for resource allocations for prevention of such disasters. The concept of learning and unlearning from failures is relevant to the reliability and safety community.