Lessons Learned from Failure Analysis

Henry Ford said “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”  Legionnaires' disease outbreaks are worst-case failures typically resulting in multiple illnesses and deaths.  The subsequent costs associated with investigation, remediation, control and frequently litigation can be from the hundreds of thousands to hundreds of millions of dollars.   This presentation will provide lessons learned from engineering analysis of Legionnaires' disease outbreaks investigations in varying building types across the US.