MESSAGE FROM BILL CAMPBELL, RETIRED GROUP HSE AUDITOR, SHELL INTERNATIONAL
John
You may be interested in this, things are not getting better offshore and the figs for 2009/10 exclude the helicopter incident.
What should concerns offshore workers is that for example the operators or installations who are having the increase in gas releases are not highlighted in the HSE report. It appears a fundamental weakness that you can find out how your local hospital is performing but not how the installation your friends or family are employed on is performing. Despite pressure to provide specific data the HSE still produces general data masking from public scrutiny the worst offenders.
http://www.hse.gov.uk/press/2010/hse-offshorestats.htm
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North Sea oil and gas companies have been taken to task about their safety record after a sharp increase in accidents to workers and oil and gas leaks from offshore installations.
By Roland Gribben
Published: 6:30AM BST 24 Aug 2010
Steve Walker, head of the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) offshore division, has bluntly told companies that their health and safety record covering 27,000 workers is “simply not good enough.”
He said: “The industry has shown it can do better and it must do in future.”
Figures released on Tuesday by the HSE show that while there were no fatalities in the offshore operations it regulates for the third year in a row last year, the number of major injury cases rose from 30 in 2008-09 to 50.
The deaths of 16 in a helicopter crash and a fatality involving a diving support vessel are not covered by the HSE figures but the report says the combined fatal and major injury rate almost doubled to 192 per 100,000 workers compared with 106 in 2008-09.
Mr Walker also expresses concern at the increase from 61 to 85 in the number of incidents involving a major and significant escape of oil and gas that could have led to a major incident.
He said: “This is a key indicator or how well the offshore industry is managing its major accident potential and it really must up its game to identify and rectify the root causes of such events.”
HSE, which is monitoring the Gulf of Mexico oil leak to assess North Sea implications, has tightened inspections of offshore installations because more of them have exceeded their design life. Oil and Gas UK, the organisation representing the companies, said the industry “will now reflect on these statistics and seek a way forward by identifying the things which we can do better.”
Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
