1. Do you think BP’s turbulent history contributed to its present day culture and general attitude towards safety and operational procedures? BP turbulent history can be considered the impalement to the current safety and operational procedures. BP had emphasized personal safety and improvements, but the company had a personal injury rates that accounted for 95% of the injuries related to the oil industry. Following the Gulf oil spill disaster, a number of safety recommendations were endorsed by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. It was then BP realized the future of the company was in its on hands and possibly sealed, if they didn’t address the much needed safety and operational procedures. The organization had a clear understanding …show more content…
BP had only one official spokesperson, Tony Hayward, who became a company embarrassment and demonstrated unskilled media techniques. As a result of Hayward 's inadequacy, the greater part of the positive steps BP took, for example, the endeavors to tidy up the spill, and the formation of online networking substance, were disregarded. On account of the different verbal blunders Hayward made to people in general. Bob Dudley was clearly the best choice for BP’s public relation and should have been assigned the company’s point man from the …show more content…
The BP distain for truth and costly crusades cause issues that left an unsettling picture of the organizations concerning the safety consciousness of the company. BP has a long history for being unreliable, when it comes to the safety of others. They pushed the envelope beyond good sense to maintain profit margin and not good health. As a person born and raised on the gulf coast of Alabama, I have firsthand knowledge many members are still disgusted with their attitude towards the environment. In my eye’s no, not to those who were affected. Even with a new attitude, new slogan and CEO. BP is still ran by the same people who lead us to the oil disaster. 7. How does BP ensure a similar crisis doesn’t happen again? Settling a standard for these types of issues is unquestionably the most important objective to date for BP. There are many things organization can do to decrease the chances for it happening again. Starting with being more supportive of restrictions related to safety, influencing a higher standard rather than leaning towards higher capital. A key variable to correct is building a response team that capable of handling emergency oil spills left the American people extremely helpless. Other factors to improve
At the end I come to conclusion that BP was not properly prepared for any disaster like that there risk assessment related to project is very limited and even not considered seriously about it for their own progress and putting live of public and employees in danger by not following the standard SOP of particular project. Even after incident happened they try to close their eyes on reality. The company should take this incident as alarm and should implement proper risk assessment for future and also compensate damages on ethical ground and if they counter this situation in good way their loss of bad reputation will be lesser as it predicted to be they should considered their responsibility towards society as well by doing this they not only making other people lives better but also earning good will to their company.
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Experts say the many deaths could have been prevented with better safety training and better safety precautions. Since then new and old rules have been enforced. During the late 1980's the federal and provincial governments installed boards to regulate offshore oil and gas. These boards required anyone visiting the rigs to have minimum safety...
This is not the first time that BP is at fault. They have had criminal convictions in places such as Endicott Bay in Alaska, Texas City and Prudhoe Bay. Jeanne Pascal was a part of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and was assigned to watch over BP. Pascal was watching over companies such as BP that were facing debarment. Under her watch, BP was charged with four federal crimes. Over the past twelve years, Pascal’s seen BP patterns as misconducts. She attempted to warn the government about BP’s safety and environmental issues that would most likely lead to another disaster. While she was watching over BP, the company misinformed and misled her about things that resulted to the felonies that they have committed. Sensing that some things were not right about the company, she presented a case of their unsafe working environments.
“On March 23, 2005, at 1:20 pm, the BP Texas City Refinery suffered one of the worst industrial disasters in recent U.S. history. Explosions and fires killed 15 people and injured another 180, alarmed the community, and resulted in financial losses exceeding $1.5 billion.” (U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, 2007) There are many small and big decisions and oversights that led to the incident. Underneath all the specific actions or inaction is a blatant disregard for addressing safety violations and procedures that had been pointed out to BP even years before this event. The use of outdated equipment and budget cuts also contributed to the circumstances that allowed this accident to happen.
Since the oil spill, information has been revealed which shows that the cause of the explosion on Deepwater Horizon was caused from shortcuts. BP was running behind in production and was doing anything and everything, safety measures aside, to catch up (Broder, 2011). This kind of accident is associated with cost cutting within the company. They disregarded any risk management procedures, chose to make last minute changes to any plans, bypassed observation rules, and allowed for other safety measures to be neglected in the name of cutting costs.
Accidents are an inevitable part of life. Children learn this at an early age by bumping their head, scraping their knees, or falling off the swings. They learn that sometimes painful experiences just happen, seemingly without cause or reason. These children carry these lessons into adulthood, and then project their tolerance for accidents onto their families and occupation. The chemical industry, while one of the safest industries, has the potential for catastrophic accidents. Through experience and renewed focus on the conservation of life, the chemical industry has improved its safety considerably. In 2005, chemical industry fatality rate (the number of fatalities per year per total number of people in the applicable population) was the third lowest when compared to industries such as agriculture, coal mining, and construction1. However, accidents still occur, sometimes with regrettable repercussions. In 2005, Formosa Plastics Corporation in Point Comfort, Texas experienced an accident with severe consequences.
Boeing has set a five-year goal to improve its work safety level by 25 percent by 2013. To achieve this it is adopting a single, enterprise wide safety management structure at its major producing plants that conforms to OHSAS 18001, and an internationally known occupational safety management system standard. Moreover, Boeing seeks to have a positive and tangible effect on its surrounding which are a more importantly areas where its employees live. It also has company policies, systems and procedures for making its decisions that are aimed at showing the right image of Boeing (Boeing, 2011). Through the above plans Boeing aims at systematic improvement on every a...
On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, located in the Gulf of Mexico exploded killing 11 workers and injuring 17. The oil rig sank a day-and-a-half later. The spill was referred to as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, BP oil spill, Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and BP oil disaster. It was first said that little oil had actually leaked into the ocean but a little over a month later the estimate was 12,000-19,000 barrels of crude oil being leaked per day. Many attempts were made to stop the leak but all failed until they capped the leak on July 15, 2010, and on September 19 the federal government declared the well “effectively dead.” In the three months that it took to finally put a stop the leak, 4.9 million barrels of oil were released into the ocean. The spill caused considerable damage to marine and wildlife habitats and the Gulf’s fishing and tourism industries. The White House energy advisor, Carol Browner, goes as far to say that the Deepwater oil spill is the “worst environmental disaster the US has faced.”
Luckily everyone is given a chance to change what they have done. One solution that CNR can attempt is, to manage their oil pipes better by checking them more frequently and notifying any complication immediately. They can also hire more employees to supervise the pipelines and use advanced technology such as detected sirens and cameras to keep a close eye the pipelines. This will create more job opportunities and if everything is well maintained then small leaks will be reported as soon as possible, stopping them from becoming big leaks. But some of the pipes are located underground which means it will be very hard to supervise underground pipelines. To supervise the underground pipelines they will need to create a pathway for the employees or they will need to plant cameras and sirens underground which will cost them thousands of dollars. Another attempt CNR can make is to invest in a research group that will investigate on new oil well technology and a different route for the pipeline where it is less probable to cause a leak. Once a successful investigation is through the company can plan and organize a new route for the pipelines. Having new technology will improve the protection of pipes. But it will take some years to collect enough money to construct new routes and accomplish a proper research. Our reliance on oil based products and services is
“Just cause culture” consistently emerges as one of the dimensions or subcultures of a safety culture (Halligan & Zecevic, 2011; Sammer et al., 2010). Similar to safety culture, the concept of a “just cause culture” has its origins in high-risk industries such as aviation and nuclear power, arising from engineering and human-factors research. Likewise, this research accelerated after the Chernobyl disaster of 1986. A pioneer in organizational safety research, Reason (1997) described five attributes of a safety culture: an informed culture, a reporting culture, a “just cause culture”, a flexible culture, and a learning culture. Both Reason (1997) and Marx (2001) stressed the importance of balancing safety and accountability in a “just cause culture”.
On a Monday afternoon, A couple of friends and I drove about forty-five minutes to El Dorado to see a movie. A movie in which we didn’t know anything about. None of us had even seen the trailer. I sent my friend a link to the movies that were showing at the cinema in El Dorado, and she had chosen Deepwater Horizon solely on the fact she liked the actors that had been cast for the movie. A few of these actors included Mark Wahlberg and Kate Hudson. Deepwater Horizon, as I came to find out on the car ride there, is about the most devastating oil spill in United States history. Since this event occurred only roughly six years ago, I recognized it after my friend called it the BP oil spill. Growing up in south Arkansas, I know many people that work on oil rigs so the spill was something that came close to home. The movie portrays the events leading up to the rig explosion and the aftermath concerning the people aboard the rig.
2. How should BP have handled an external environmental analysis ties and what environmental changes and trends (opportunity and threats) might they have discovered?
A candidly of risk occurs in every organisation. Governance principals and the occupational health and safety urge that the organisations take reasonable measures to hinder loss, charge or rage to the organisational and all stakeholders/management. Injury and accidents can even happen ultimately with stringent OHS and the fact that an accident when occurs, does not mean that someone is liable if all responsible steps for prevention or minimisation has been taken.
Feature Article Role of PR in organizations. Today, public relations is a complex profession for thousands of thousands of people all over the world to practice. Almost all large and small organizations have their own public relations department, or they need to outsource their public relations to a company. Public relations practitioners work for schools and universities, companies, governments, professional and trade associations, hospitals, hotels, non-profit charities, and others (Grunig, 2001). Therefore, PR is an important department for organizations.