Dec 15, 2016
BP slips on a safety banana skin
"Health and safety" means different things to different people: a banana skin; a bureaucrat's delight in Article 153 of the Treaty of the Functioning of the EU; serious danger to life and limb. To Bob Dudley, boss of BP, improvements to health and safety pushed up his bonus and helped to lift his pay to more than $19m last year, despite the group's losses. Now, according to an internally commissioned report on BP's downstream operations, a series of "High potential" safety incidents critical to efficiency and workers' safety has cost further millions. This autumn, Norway's overseer of oil safety pushed Statoil to investigate an escalation of fires, gas leaks and other mishaps, asking if cost cutting was compromising safety standards. Banana skins are over used as gags in video clips on health and safety in the workplace.
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