tistisnot - Its nice to hear others highlight the hypocritical nature of some so called 'aviation advisors'. If a company like BP has to shut off 400000 barrels a day ($30 million a day) because they can't maintain their oil pipes and Shell can't maintain a staircase on a platform, it makes a mockery of some of the more 'creative' oil company potifications on aviation safety.
From the London Times today:
After the 1988 Piper Alpha disaster, Lord Cullen concluded in his inquiry that risk should be “as low as reasonably practicable”. Anecdotes from the oil industry suggest that during the 1998-2000 oil price collapse, cynicism had reached such a level at some companies that executives jokingly said that the test was not ALARP but ALACC — as low as currently convenient.
Ironically some of their over zealous meddling is just putting their fingerprints all over the next accident...
N Arslow / SASless - The big oil companies pay the company men well and so most of the advisors have a certain short-sightedness to the oil company's own shortcomings.
Its funny how some of the European CAAs treat the oil companies as highly responsible safety gods. They've obviously never been to the dark contenent.
No doubt the bigoil spin machine will now activate...