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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State officials have called it one of the most aggressive steps in the US to protect public health and safety from the dangers of drilling. -
Viktória Márton, vice president for sustainable development and health, safety, and environment at MOL Group, an international oil, gas, petrochemicals, and retail company, talks about experiences and thoughts for the future in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Researchers found increased concentrations of air pollutants downwind from oil and gas wells in California, likely affecting millions of Californians who live near them.
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A recent settlement of up to $1.8 billion between Southern California Gas Co. and thousands of alleged victims has offered a measure of relief to some. But many residents say they still know painfully little about how the disaster affected their health.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) tightened its air-quality guidelines for the first time since 2005, hoping to spur countries toward clean energy and prevent deaths and illness caused by air pollution.
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Researchers say they found that the amount and proximity of natural gas wells to a home were linked to higher levels of certain chemical contaminants.
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In a perspective piece that appears in the journal Science, Elaine Hill, an economist in the University of Rochester Medical Center Department of Public Health Sciences, calls for tighter regulation and monitoring of unconventional oil and gas development as more evidence points to the negative health consequences of the practice.
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The oilfield services firm is asking US employees to disclose their COVID-19 vaccine status and said more customers are mandating vaccinations as a condition for working on their job sites.
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US energy companies are moving to require that employees receive COVID-19 vaccinations as infection rates rise across the United States and health surveys show that energy workers remain among those most reluctant to get inoculations.
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Poor health and safety behaviors pose a challenge to drivers of trucks and commercial vehicles and to the safety of motorists and pedestrians. In Nigeria, an operator partnered with medical personnel to demonstrate the positive effects of a human performance and care agenda on driver performance, engagement, behavior, and road safety.
