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Taking Safety Personally

By Guest PostApril 30, 2011Environment, Generalbp disaster, bp explosion, culture, culture of safety, deepwater horizon oil rig, disaster, geller, individual freedom, message, oil spill, psychologists, safety personally, scott geller, video, virginia tech

A year after the BP explosion and oil spill, those trying to find someone to blame are misguided, says psychological scientist E. Scott Geller, Alumni Distinguished professor at Virginia Tech, and author of a new paper published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Geller has spent much of his 42-year career developing interventions to keep people safe, particularly helping companies develop a culture that promotes occupational safety. (more…)

Oil in Gulf of Mexico: Biologists Cite Need for Critical Data to Determine Ecological Consequences

By Guest PostFebruary 6, 2011Environmentbiologists, bp disaster, brian bowen, demographic traits, ecological damages, ecosystems, environmental disasters, exxon valdez oil spill, karen bjorndal, largest offshore oil spill, marine life, political will, u s history, valdez oil spill

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Twenty years after biologists attempted to determine the ecological damages to marine life from the Exxon Valdez oil spill, scientists dealing with the BP disaster find themselves with the same problem: the lack of critical data to determine the ecological consequences of human-induced environmental disasters, a University of Florida researcher said. (more…)

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Taking Safety Personally

Oil in Gulf of Mexico: Biologists Cite Need for Critical Data to Determine Ecological Consequences