Senior management responsibility and accountability

However unfortunate, drilling personnel have been historically directly connected with major incidents within the petroleum industry on numerous occasions and the impression, consciously or unconsciously still remains. On the other hand, it is very rare or non-existent that a loss prevention professional is promoted to the ranks of senior management, even though they may have been keenly conscientious in maintaining a high economic return to the company by the prevention of catastrophic accidents. 

Safety achievement is a team approach. All parties to the operation must participate and contribute. Without team cohesiveness, commitment and accountability objectives will not be met. Specifically important is the leadership of a team, which in business operations is the senior management. 

Giddens, P. H., Early Days of Oil. A Pictorial History of the Beginnings of the Industry in Pennsylvania. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1948. 

George L, and Stephen Horn II, Essentials of the Risk Management Process. Vols. I II, Insurance Institute of America, Malvern, PA, 1985. 

Knowles, R. S., The First Pictorial History of the American Oil and Gas Industry 1859-1983. Ohio University Press, Athens, OH, 1983. 

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