The actions of “multiple companies and work teams” contributed to the Deepwater Horizon explosion and fire in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year, a report released by BP has concluded.
BP Products North America Inc. (BP) has consented to pay a penalty of $50.6m (£32.5m) over safety issues stemming from the 2005 Texas City oil refinery explosion.
Behind the glitz and the glamour of events like the World Cup and the Olympic Games there are workers around the world sweating blood to fulfil orders for major sportswear brands and forced to work in unsafe factories for paltry pay packets.
Seven men have been convicted more than 25 years after a gas-plant leak in Bhopal, central India amounted to the biggest industrial disaster the world has ever known.
Work-related stress is as great a concern for European managers as workplace accidents, according to the results of a comprehensive pan-European survey.
A US federation of health and safety committees has voiced its concern that the loss of 11 lives following the BP Deepwater Horizon oil-rig explosion in April has been forgotten amid the subsequent environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
Outgoing US president George Bush is winding up his time at top with a move that typifies his less-than-exemplary approach to the health and safety of his country’s workforce.
The US government is proposing that workplace hazard standards must be subjected to increased scrutiny by both experts and the public before being adopted, possibly making it more difficult to protect workers from exposure to carcinogens and other toxic materials, Associated Press reports.
New EU driving licences that carry drivers’ vision-correction details, plus compulsory eye tests, are expected to significantly reduce the number of road accidents, conference delegates have heard.
