• Has come to the forefront of oil and gas industry
concerns as a result of statements like this:
– BP management paid attention to, measured, and
rewarded personal safety rather than process
safety.
(Safety Board report on Texas City refinery explosion, as repeated in President’s Report on
BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, 221)
– …To understand how this operated we must first
make the distinction between occupational safety,
sometimes called personal safety, on the one hand,
and process safety on the other