Abstract
“We think problems are in fact opportunities.” That positive, hopeful cliché was oft repeated by new US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) members Sylvia Johnson and Steve Owens in a lengthy interview with C&EN. Looking at where the CSB is now and where the two hope to take it, Johnson and Owens have a bonanza of opportunities. Their goal is to turn around the small agency, which investigates significant chemical-related accidents, and restore it to its former authority. Safety experts and regulators, members of Congress, and even accident-prone companies once considered it to be the worldwide gold standard in conducting industrial accident investigations . Its reports and animated videos are valued by industry, regulatory authorities, and communities worldwide. But the agency has been struggling for a while . The CSB has not initiated a new accident investigation in over a year. It has a backlog of 17 incomplete
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