The Alberta Oil Sands, Fort McMurray Alberta Canada
Safety message not being heard
May 8th, 2011 Posted in Oil Sands Review
Two years with no lost-time worker injuries at Imperial Oil’s three Alberta oil sands operations is pretty good, suggests CEO Bruce March.
Then he says no, it’s not good enough.
“We still find better safety performance in many other places in the world,” March told several hundred potential contractors, suppliers and vendors to his 130-year-old energy company.
“Lost time” is a measure that doesn’t take into account the full picture of worker safety, March said. Employees here in Alberta were hurt on the job, lost time or not, and that’s not acceptable.
Alberta’s minister for worker safety has also lost patience with industry’s failure to address its worker safety issues. Read about that here.
-David Sands