April 29, 2011 by Fred Hosier
A power company has agreed to pay $27 million dollars to settle a lawsuit in connection with a fire that killed one worker and trapped three others atop a 976-foot-tall smokestack for four hours.
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Tags: American Electric Power, defective cable, lawsuit settlement, lift, safety culture, smokestack fire
January 13, 2011 by Fred Hosier
The Presidential commission investigating the BP oil spill says the oil and gas industry needs to take bold action to make it clear that business will no longer be conducted as usual in the Gulf of Mexico. In a nutshell, one section of the report says BP and other companies working in the Gulf need to change their safety cultures.
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Tags: BP spill, presidential commission, process safety, safety culture, Transocean
January 10, 2011 by Fred Hosier
A government investigation into the Gulf of Mexico oil spill looks at specific factors such as how deep a cement plug was set and whether additional barriers should have been installed. But the root causes of the incident that killed 11 workers focus on common subjects for workplace safety: management, communication, previous near-misses, safety culture and government regulation.
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Tags: BP well blowout, government investigation, government regulation, Halliburton, near misses, safety culture, safety management, Transocean
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