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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A partnership between ConocoPhillips, Marathon Oil, and XTO Energy has resulted in the opening of a new clinic catering to the safety and health of oil and gas employees in Carlsbad, New Mexico. -
Seadrill has announced implementation throughout its fleet of a health program designed for employees before they leave for work on one of the company’s rigs.
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Organizational resilience is an enterprise’s capability to respond rapidly to unforeseen challenges, even chaotic disruption. It is the ability to bounce back with speed and effectiveness. This paper describes how inherent and adaptive resilience were addressed in the response to Hurricane Harvey.
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Recommended Practice 54, "Occupational Safety and Health for Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing Operations," provides procedures for promoting and maintaining safe and healthy working conditions for personnel in drilling and well servicing operations.
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Workers in specific settings and activities are at increased risk for certain infectious diseases. When an infectious disease case occurs in a worker, investigators need to understand the mechanisms of disease propagation in the workplace.
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Occupational diseases of employees can have a significant impact on workplace productivity and exact an unmeasurable emotional and financial toll on the workers and their families. It is important to design programs that will put the workplace on a journey toward prevention of diseases.
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Companies waste countless resources measuring the wrong things, not measuring at all, or failing to keep "the most important thing, the most important thing."
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As part of the Papua New Guinea Liquefied Natural Gas project, a systematic longitudinal effort was made to collect a broad range of morbidity and mortality data for those communities directly adjacent to the project. These data were used to inform workplace disease-monitoring efforts.
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Occupational exposure to vibration has been associated with an increased risk of musculoskeletal pain in the back, neck, hands, shoulders, and hips and also may contribute to the development of peripheral and cardiovascular disorders and gastrointestinal problems.
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This study investigated the association between occupational noise exposure and the risk of elevated blood pressure and hypertension by stage in young adults.
