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EHS Out Loud Blog: Massey Energy’s Flawed Approach to Safety

June 7, 2011
Dr. Richard Fulwiler takes Massey Energy to task in his latest blog post on EHS Today.

“Every organization is designed to get the results they get,” Fulwiler quotes from Dave Hanna’s book on organizational design, then offers three statements made by Massey Energy and former CEO Don Blankenship that explain why he thinks Massey Energy was perfectly designed … to kill 29 miners.

Read more from Fulwiler at Massey Energy’s Flawed Approach to Safety

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