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Integrated safe system of work (ISSOW) is used in hazardous industry to request, review, approve and document tasks to be carried out by frontline workers. [1] It integrates permit-to-work , risk assessment and isolation management under a single electronic system, providing safety improvements to the user.
April 6 – MMS issues permit to BP for the well with the notation, "Exercise caution while drilling due to indications of shallow gas and possible water flow." [18] April 9 – BP drills last section with the wellbore 18,360 feet (5,600 m) below sea level but the last 1,192 feet (363 m) needs casing. Halliburton recommends liner/tieback casing ...
A permit-to-work is not a replacement for robust risk assessment, but can help provide context for the risk of the work to be done. Studies by the U.K. Health and Safety Executive have shown that the most significant cause of maintenance-related accidents in the U.K. chemical industry was a failure to implement effective permit-to-work systems ...
BP Plc will pay more than $20 billion in fines to resolve nearly all claims from its deadly Gulf of Mexico oil spill five years ago, marking the largest corporate settlement of its kind in U.S. ...
On 6 May 2010, BP began documenting the daily response efforts on its web site. [2] On 28 April, the US military joined the cleanup operation. [3] The response increased in scale as the spill volume grew. Initially, BP employed remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROV's), 700 workers, 4 airplanes, and 32 vessels. [4]
BP strongly disagreed with the ruling and filed an immediate appeal. [28] [361] On 2 July 2015, BP, the U.S. Justice Department and five gulf states announced that the company agreed to pay a record settlement of $18.7 billion. [362] To date BP's cost for the clean-up, environmental and economic damages and penalties has reached $54 billion. [363]
After ousting BP CEO Bernard Looney after failing to disclose personal relationships at work, the $100 billion oil giant isn’t taking another chance on its lovestruck managers.
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