EXPERT REPLY TO A LETTER PUBLISHED RECENTLY BY UPSTREAM
PROGRESS WITH SAFETY- FACT OR FICTION!
In reply to the letter from Bjorn Edlund, Upstream 23rd June, 2006
The Platform Safety Management Review (PSMR) was actually commissioned because Shell had experienced a number of serious incidents and the internal audit process was raising increasing numbers of serious findings. A culture of denial seemed to prevail in Shell Expro with up to 18 months passing before audit actions could be accepted by auditees, in many cases after the actions had be wordsmithed in such a form that they were no longer meaningful.