Boeing, the 737 MAX Crisis and Aviation Safety: The Perils of Profit-Driven Engineering
| AUTHOR | Hopkins, Andrew |
| PUBLISHER | CRC Press (05/02/2025) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Paperback (Paperback) |
This title explores how the pursuit of profit compromised safety principles, neglected human factors, and led to critical design failures that no one at Boeing had a complete view of. It examines the specifics of the Boeing crisis and looks at it in a broader industrial and economic context.
This title explores how the pursuit of profit compromised safety principles, neglected human factors, and led to critical design failures that no one at Boeing had a complete view of. It examines the specifics of the Boeing crisis and looks at it in a broader industrial and economic context.
He was an expert witness at the Royal Commission into the causes of the fire at Esso's gas plant at Longford in Victoria in 1998, leading to the publication of his two books on this disaster, Lessons from Longford and Lessons from Longford: The Trial.
In 2001 he was the expert member of a Board of Inquiry into the exposure of F111 maintenance workers to toxic chemicals at Amberley Air Force base. The Board's report revolutionized the way the Australian Defence Organisation approaches work health and safety. This work led to Andrew's interest in safety culture, culminating in his book, Safety, Culture and Risk.
He has been a consultant to various government agencies, safety regulators, as well as to unions and companies.