The decision making used definitely follows the garbage can model because things were done very sloppily. The minimal decision making that occurred ended up having very dangerous consequences. There was definitely not an orderly system of steps being followed and that ultimately probably lead to the unfortunate death of those workers. Representativeness heuristic was definitely present even though nothing was done about it.
2. In order to have used any type of evidence based decision making, the company would have had to do research. It seems like the company did not do much research on the safety concerns of the oil rig. It also seemed like there was a lot of confusion on whose job it was to complete certain tasks. They also should have worked on implementation procedures so that things were actually getting accomplished.
3. I think these issues were caused by a complete lack of planning. There also seemed like there was no way for anyone to know who was assigned to do which task and who was supposed to facilitate each task on the oil rig. There definitely should have been someone assigned to monitor the dangerous levels on the rig. The lack of coordination between the two companies definitely lead to the explosion of the rig. There also should have been no misunderstanding of the data because the data is very important in this case.
4. This case really goes to show that poor planning can lead to terrible outcomes. It is obvious from this case that if you do not plan out who is supposed to do what, things will not get done. It is important that someone is also assigned to monitor things that need to be checked frequently so that they know if levels of certain things are getting dangerous so that actions can be taken