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In the glamour of the high technology systems of the oil industry it is easy to lose track of the fact that the foundation of the whole business is people. We extract, transport, refine and use oil to serve human needs. These processes are designed and conducted by skilled human operators and if something goes wrong it can only be because somewhere at some time one or more of these operators made mistakes. There is no other cause of accidents or source of pollution.
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Singleton, W.T. (1979). The human factor in oil pollution. In: Wardley-Smith, J. (eds) The Prevention of Oil Pollution. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7347-6_12
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