Health
Fawaz Bitar, BP's senior vice president for HSE and carbon, spoke at a recent health, safety, and environment conference in Aberdeen about the importance of health in the industry. Here is a transcript of his speech.
The report presents data from 35 participating member companies.
New Mexico is the second-largest oil producer in the US behind Texas. Drawing immense wealth from the Permian Basin, the state relies on a workforce—often Latino men—who are subjected to harrowing conditions that lead to death, injury, disease, and terrible tolls on mental health and family life.
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The healthcare provider has developed and launched a new service to safely manage suspected cases of coronavirus following workers’ disembarkation from offshore locations. -
Major energy companies in the United States imposed work-from-home rules for office staff and began health checks for remote or critical workers as coronavirus spread and threatened an industry reeling from falling demand and profits.
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As industry imposes work from home, health checks, and other severe measures, could digitalization provide relief?
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Equinor announced that one person at the Martin Linge field in the North Sea offshore Norway has tested positive for the coronavirus. The company says the person is not seriously ill.
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A team from Uganda's Ministry of Health and the Petroleum Authority of Uganda toured health facilities along the East African Crude Oil Pipeline corridor "to evaluate the readiness of the existing health facilities in the 10 districts along the EACOP route to provide the required health services."
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Coal, oil, and gas have given communities across the US both steady paychecks and devastating pollution. This essay makes the case for setting health as a priority in meeting our energy demands.
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Between 2000 and 2017, the suicide rate in the US increased by 40%, with blue-collar workers in industries such as mining, oil and gas extraction, construction, agriculture, transportation, and warehousing most at risk, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Oil and gas wells produce nearly a trillion gallons of toxic waste a year. An investigation shows how it could be making workers sick and contaminating communities across America.
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Wood Mackenzie expects the ongoing outbreak and disruption to the world’s second largest economy to be a one-off event, yet it could remove at least 500,000 B/D of crude demand in the short term.
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Twenty safety and health leaders from various industries were asked to give their predictions on the trends they see most affecting occupational health and safety in 2020 and beyond, and several themes emerged.
