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Damaging Report on BP

This report written by Ray Skinner is very harsh on BP. I am aware of Skinner's OSHA work before his retirement and subsequent employment as lawyers' hired gun in the BP case. However I disagree with Skinner's previous stance on a couple of industry cases and the way he played to the media, my own opinion pretty much agrees with his assessment. The BP case was simply a blatant failure by management to correct a known safety hazard. In this day and age, those vent stacks should not have existed nor should the column startup conditions have been allowed to operate.

The only thing in BP's defense was a very thorough investigation and public disclosure of their findings. Most companies would have hidden the results behind layers of lawyers. BP chose full disclosure. Of course, that does not bring back those 12 people, but it was a good way to proceed with the investigation.

posted by Jim VAT @ 11:03 PM