In 2007, the company Royal Dutch Shell leader on the number of fatal accidents in the workplace. Two staff members and 28 employees of firms and contractors were killed in the works in this company.For comparison – in BP hit three staff members and four of the contractors, and Exxon Mobile – Eight employees of contractors, reported Financial Times. All these companies are comparable to the parameters. For Shell, the truth, a little more employees (104 thousand at the end of last year, the BP of 98 thousand and 81 thousand from Exxon). The analysis shows that by the number of deaths per thousand hours Shell more than doubled ahead of BP. And this is despite the fact that the overall level of security in the Anglo-Dutch concern slightly higher than BP. For example, Shell has maintained it is sad leadership even in 2005, when an explosion at the refinery in Texas owned by BP, the deaths of 15 people, writes British newspaper. One reason for such a relatively large number of deaths for Shell employees, many call that the company operates in regions with high risks. In particular, 9 deaths last year occurred in Nigeria, two people were killed during a militant attack, and another 10 – in Russia. However, the relative numbers of deaths in this company is declining. In 2006, Shell had recorded 43 deaths, and in 1997 – 67. And just two weeks ago, Shell and oilfield company Amec has been sentenced to claim authorized the United Kingdom on the health and safety to a fine of 150 thousand pounds each for the death of an employee firm Amec, to work for Shell platform in the North Sea.
