[SystemSafety] Aberfan 50 years on [No Classification]

[Martyn Thomas]

"Your intelligence should always be far in advance of your acts.
Whenever you do not know what you are about, you are sure to be doing
wrong." John Ruskin     /The Ethics of the Dust.

/Martyn/

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On 17/10/2016 17:56, Barnes, Robert A (NNPPI) wrote:
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> As a child in a Welsh school, I was taught about Aberfan.  The slag heap was described to us as having a rotten heart.  Visiting it again later in life, and reading more about what the NCB knew about at the time, it seemed like a culture of wishful thinking, that the heap was stable even in the face of evidence to the contrary.
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> The tribunal into the disaster summarised "... the Aberfan Disaster is a terrifying tale of bungling ineptitude by many men charged with tasks for which they were totally unfitted, of failure to heed clear warnings, and of total lack of direction from above.  Not villains but decent men, led astray by foolishness or by ignorance or by both in combination, are responsible for what happened at Aberfan."  Too many man-made disasters follow this template.
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> -Rob
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