All large oil companies have various management structures to kid themselves they are doing it the 'Safeway'.
The Statoil 'report' was a joint ar5e-covering and
PR exercise that contributes nothing to the safety argument.
Likewise, Shell Aviation can employ as many 'inspectors' and 'Aviation Safety Advisors' as they can justify; but it will be Shell Commercial that calls the shots.
As far as introducing up-to-date Helideck lighting - you must be referring to decks before my time.......
For example; latest 'Clipper' deck was introduced well after the design of 'new' Helideck lighting was agreed, and it was still allowed to be commissioned with 'old-spec' lighting!
Be careful what you say SM, it was only after the industry embarrassed the CAA into taking action did 'updates' - which had previously been left on the shelf as they were only examples of 'best practice' - start to be 'mandated'.
You are still using out-of-date aircraft when you could been leading the field and insisting in OEMs to provide 'modern' machines - but then that would cost more and it is only a 'taxi' to get plumbers to work and no one has insisted in the past..............
You might regard yourselves as 'leaders' in the Energy Transport sector but you are all well behind the fixed-wing world. That might have been acceptable in the days of the mad rush to extract the black stuff but you have no excuse now and will find it difficult to hide behind a wall of Safety Cases when the lawyers ask "why not" when it was simply a matter of spending a bit more of the green stuff.......