Abstract
“WE ARE NOT the big Environmental Protection Agency, the big Occupational Safety & Health Administration, or the Department of Energy; we are a small agency,” says John S. Bresland, the new chairman of the Chemical Safety & Hazard Investigation Board (CSB). Despite its small size—a staff of a little more than 40 and an annual budget of $10 million—CSB is an agency with deadly serious responsibilities. Its charge is to identify significant U.S. chemical accidents and search out their root causes. Last year, CSB screened some 900 chemically related U.S. accidents and chose a handful of the most important to investigate. In its 10-year history, the five-member board has completed 43 investigations and has nine that are works-in-progress. The board looks for problems and trends in a wide range of industries that handle many different chemicals. The board’s staff is on the lookout for those details of operation and behavior that can lead to ...
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