April 15, 2013 by Fred Hosier
“Safety is our top priority.” So said a BP executive in court testimony to determine the company’s liability for the Deepwater Horizon explosion. Where have we heard that before?
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Tags: BP, Deepwater Horizon, safety is our top priority, safety is our top value
November 21, 2012 by Fred Hosier
Sure, the fines against BP for the Deepwater Horizon explosion may be some of the largest ever in U.S. history. But isn’t the bigger headline the criminal charges against four BP employees? Some are saying this is a significant shift in government policy.
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Tags: BP, criminal charges, Deepwater Horizon, manslaughter
September 7, 2012 by Fred Hosier
It’s been more than two years since the explosion at a BP rig in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 workers and caused the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. The potential consequences for BP continue to pile up, as a new lawsuit shows.
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Tags: BP rig explosion, Gulf of Mexico, lawsuit, safety first
April 30, 2012 by Fred Hosier
The U.S. Justice Department has filed its initial charges in connection with the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster on April 20, 2010. Now a former BP employee faces prison time and fines.
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Tags: BP Gulf explosion, Deepwater Horizon, Justice Department
September 19, 2011 by Fred Hosier
The final, and most comprehensive, report on the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico points to seven company practices that contributed to the incident. They’re the types of mistakes that could be made by any company, not just an oil giant.
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Tags: BP oil disaster, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, cost saving, Deepwater Horizon, risk management, time saving, Transocean
April 7, 2011 by Fred Hosier
Transocean Ltd. says it had its “best year in safety performance in our company’s history” despite the explosion of its oil rig that killed 11 workers and spilled 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Its top executives will get two-thirds of their safety bonuses.
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Tags: Deepwater Horizon, executive bonus, safety bonus, Transocean
April 4, 2011 by Fred Hosier
It’s almost one year since the oil well explosion in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 workers and caused the biggest offshore spill in U.S. history. A recent news report says the federal government is consolidating its efforts to bring criminal charges against the company and perhaps some of its managers.
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Tags: BP explosion, criminal charges, Deepwater Horizon, involuntary manslaughter, sacrificed safety
March 21, 2011 by Fred Hosier
On March 25, 1911, 146 workers died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire in New York City. It’s been called an event that fundamentally changed U.S. workplace conditions. But have workplace safety attitudes really changed in 100 years?
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Tags: BP, fire safety, immigrants, safety attitudes, safety too costly, Triangle Shirtwaist fire, Upper Big Branch mine, workplace conditions
February 24, 2011 by Fred Hosier
It really does matter how safety training is delivered to employees. New research shows the best training contains something called the “dread factor.”
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Tags: cost of safety, dread factor, hands-on training, safety research, Safety training
February 22, 2011 by Fred Hosier
In an expanded report on the causes of the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, new details show failure of BP workers to speak up about a problem played a crucial part leading up to rig’s explosion.
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Tags: BP, deadlines, oil spill, team player, workers speak up about safety
