Posted by LAA on November 19, 2016 at 23:46:25 from (130.117.142.131):
In Reply to: Re: Genaral Safety posted by John in La on November 19, 2016 at 11:48:30:
Of course there was pressure from the shore based management to hurry but the senior rig personnel have a duty to resist that pressure and do the right thing, they are protected by US and international maritime law, the OIM on a rig cannot be forced to do anything that he does not agree with and has complete autonomy unless and until he is relieved of command. Pencil neck engineers, geologists and bean counters in town may whine about budgets and schedules and suggest every manner of stupidity to cut costs on operations that they do not understand but within the hierarchy of the company they are powerless to force the onboard management to do anything or to take any punitive action against field personnel. As far as your 1 in 100 analogy is concerned I agree wholeheartedly, anytime someone tells me that they just forgot to follow procedures or use the right tool for the job or wear their PPE "this one time" I ask them if they would fly an airline with a 99% safe landing record.
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