#safety

Detail your biggest concerns at the facilities you work at…
Lots of corrosion and lack of integrity monitoring since Covid…

The purpose is to share and hopefully improve HSE conditions. With recent acquisitions field and office personnel have not been concentrating on safety and integrity and it’s starting to become evident…

One more

So maintenance just put alarms on the freezers that go off after 2 minutes of the door being open. How are you suppose to do your job when you get over a 1000 piece truck per day? Not to mention all the freight in the steel plus 3 to 4 rows deep of back frieght stacked 3 high.

Is there any bank besides WF, that gets robbed every 3-4 weeks?

in a call last week MN mentioned five deaths this year from the Angola incident (3 reported deaths) and some other incident. Does anyone know what the other incident was? I think a contractor was also ki-led in Pascagoula due to a fall.

any know why?

Predict and manifest Conoco’s reality for 2026 and beyond!
Will the company continue record production rates?
Will increases in incidents occur due to less people and more responsibilities?
What assets will be divested?
Will CEO buy better tailored suits?

Is there anything I can do to make sure I am safe?

I absolutely need to be safe.

What can I do?

The number of serious safety incidents over the past two years is staggering, yet they seem to quietly disappear without real acknowledgment. Is safety no longer a priority, or is there a deliberate effort to downplay and cover things up? Even incidents outside the immediate work environment, like the fatal crash involving an intoxicated employee leaving a company dinner, are brushed aside without discussion. It raises a real question: has the organization lost its sense of empathy, or are lives simply not valued here anymore?

They had you all come back to the Cole but they didn't even complete testing. Numbnuts on slack just admitted it... Good luck to anyone on that site. They clearly don't care.

When a state of emergency is declared and you’re a non-essential employee who could have worked remotely, but your employer still required you to travel in dangerous conditions, a court could view that as Negligence or Reckless disregard for safety — especially if:

•   🌪️ Officials explicitly urged people to stay off the roads.
•   🧑‍💻 You asked to work remotely and were denied without a valid reason.
•   🚗 The accident happened while following their instruction to report to work.

It’s been nearly four months since the deadly Air India Boeing 787
Dreamliner cгash in Ahmedabad that claimed 260 lives —
and the controversy isn’t going away.
Now, India’s powerful pilot unions are calling for the entire Air India 787 fleet
to be grounded, after two more technical incidents in less than a week —
including one where a ram air turbine (RAT) deployed mid-flight.

In this video, we’ll break it down:

The latest incidents that reignited calls to ground the 787
What investigators have found about the June 12 cгash of AI171
Whether the fault lies with Boeing’s design or Air India’s maintenance

Boeing, the FAA, and Indian regulators all say the 787 is safe —
but pilots aren’t convinced. So who’s right?

https://youtu.be/gFhnrtAwX-c

@j6+1k73hj88q --- Airbus "FINISHED" Boeing:
No, Boeing "FINISHED" Boeing:

Against literally everyone’s advice, the response to all the incidents we have had recently is to absolutely gut our frontline defense: Site safety.

Don’t fret, we have the heroes from the HSE office staff still here to make a sign, slogan, or initiate another stand down.

I don't remember that we've ever had layoffs on Friday, so I'm going to guess we're done?

For full disclosure, I am a white male that got let go earlier this year after 20 years with the company and yes, chatgpt helped rewrite my rant in the following professional manner.

Chevron’s Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) organization was once the benchmark of operational excellence, a “Platinum” model respected across the energy sector. Backed by deep technical expertise and field-driven leadership, it played a critical role in upholding Chevron’s reputation for safety and discipline.

Today, that reputation is that Chevron is plain and simple, get the job done with the cheapest way possible. HSE is an afterthought.

Insiders and industry observers say the HSE function has lost its edge, evolving into a bureaucratic arm focused more on compliance optics than real safety outcomes much of what was seen in 2019 and repeated over and over again including this year. Chevron HSE Moto was White Males not wanted. Look at today's HSE demographics. Experienced white male professionals have been replaced or sidelined in favor of internal favorites and corporate climbers, with leadership roles increasingly filled by those lacking field or technical experience.

Chevron’s recent cultural pivot, including a strong emphasis on DEI initiatives, has sparked a rash of incidents. When qualifications and expertise take a back seat, especially in high-stakes functions like HSE, the results can be damaging.

The shift is already visible: incident reviews are increasingly sanitized, technical audits feel performative, and institutional knowledge is quietly being kicked out the DEI no white males allowed door. These are all my opinions rewritten by ChatGPT.

Thoughts on the sudden increase in loss of containment and fires within the industry? This past week has numerous incidents in the news. Is this a prequel to the new norm due to reduction in experience, headcount, and overall intelligence?
Inquiring minds want to know.

i had to close with just two people sometimes
myself and one assocaite because of frequent call outs and lack of hours
we are understaffed to the point of putting people in danger
RVP and GVP and corporate dont care at all, not one bit.

Chevron refinery and now Big Spring refinery. Has it begun?

• Safety Specialist
• Safety Specialist - Maintenance
• Safety specialist - maintenance (ABU)
• Safety Specialist - TAR
• Safety specialist - TAR (ABU)
• Safety Specialist - Tech Project
• Safety Specialist - Tech Project (ABU)
• OE/ HSE reporting specialist
• OE/HSE Reporting Specialist (EMC)
• Workforce Safety Lead
• Hazard Communication Lead
• Hazard Communication Specialist
• HSE Digital Implementation Specialist
• OE Reporting Lead
• OE/ HSE reporting specialist
• OE/HSE Reporting Specialist (EMC)

Safety Specialist - Bengaluru, India (R000065549)

About the position:
The Safety Specialist is responsible for providing technical support and analysis of Control of Work (CoW) activities supporting enterprise-wide activities including the development and implementation of safe work practices and standards. The Safety Specialist reports to the Workforce Safey Team Lead in the Chevron Engine in Bengaluru, India.

Key responsibilities:
• Support efforts to prevent incidents with a focus on eliminating significant incidents and fatalities through providing guidance on implementation and delivery of the CoW process, standards and procedures

• Position supports delivery of work including workforce safety focus area projects and pilots across the Enterprise

• Support incident investigation process and provide analysis of root cause analysis and trends

• Support for electronic Control of Work (eCoW) digital tool including development of enhancements and data analysis

Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in occupational safety, engineering, or related field or equivalent work experience
Comprehensive Safety Knowledge: Demonstrates technical understanding and ability to apply health & safety standards and regulations pertaining to industrial workplace settings
Knowledge of oil & gas industry safety procedures, policies, & regulatory requirements
Experience with Safety Audits and Inspections: Proven experience conducting audits, field inspections, and providing interpretations of regulatory regulations, and industry standards / guidance is preferred

Experience in development and communicating safety procedures and conducting training for this material is preferred

Ability to Interpret laws/regulations or policies/best practices, develop compliance guidelines, and provide practical solutions for field implementation is preferred

Experience in compliance, and stakeholder engagement is preferred

Leadership, communication, strategic thinking, and program/project management skills are preferred
Chevron ENGINE supports global operations, supporting business requirements across the world. Accordingly, the work hours for employees will be aligned to support business requirements. The standard work week will be Monday to Friday. Working hours are 8:00am to 5:00pm or 1.30pm to 10.30pm.

No Past Experience of Chevron’s refineries, chemical plants, and LNG facilities required!
• El Segundo Refinery – El Segundo, California
• Richmond Refinery – Richmond, California
• Pascagoula Refinery – Pascagoula, Mississippi
• Salt Lake Refinery – Salt Lake City, Utah
• Cedar Bayou Plant – Baytown, Texas
• Sweeny Complex – Old Ocean, Texas
• Port Arthur Plant – Port Arthur, Texas
• Lake Charles Plant – Lake Charles, Louisiana
• Orange Plant – Orange, Texas
• Borger Plant – Borger, Texas
• Conroe Plant – Conroe, Texas
• Kingwood Plant – Kingwood, Texas
• Singapore Plant – Singapore
• Qatar Plant – Mesaieed, Qatar
• Saudi Arabia Plant – Jubail, Saudi Arabia
• Shanghai Plant – Shanghai, China
• Istanbul Plant – Istanbul, Turkey
• Subang Jaya Plant – Selangor, Malaysia
• Dubai Office – Dubai Airport Free Zone
• Gorgon LNG – Barrow Island, Western Australia
• Wheatstone LNG – Ashburton North, Western Australia
• Angola LNG – Soyo, Angola
• Nigeria LNG (stakeholder) – Bonny Island, Nigeria
• Kitimat LNG (planned) – British Columbia, Canada
• Tangguh LNG (stakeholder) – Papua Barat, Indonesia

Yeah All Feeling Safe!

With all these safety incidents I’ve noticed a lot of HSE positions going to India. Just putting that out there.

Whoever can secure a job elsewhere in the next year probably ought to do so before we have an accident or two so egregious all CVX employees become untouchable.

I’m interested to see how Belk will manage this situation. It was expected that problems would emerge due to reduced hours and a lack of adequate personnel to cover store operations, especially during closing hours. I applaud the associates who made the effort to report the incident while it was happening. However, I can't help but wonder if they might face consequences for their decision to involve law enforcement, given that employees are typically advised to refrain from intervening in suspicious activities. This policy seems to stem from the company’s fear of lawsuits associated with criminal incidents. It’s concerning that many might feel the company prioritizes its legal concerns over the safety and well-being of its employees. https://wyff4.com/article/armed-robbery-4-arrested-upstate-belk-easley/68819933

EL SEGUNDO, California (October 3, 2025) — On Thursday, October 2, at approximately 9:30 pm, a fire occurred at the Chevron El Segundo Refinery. The incident took place at a processing unit located near the southeast corner of the facility. Following Chevron’s active response along with support from the cities of El Segundo and Manhattan Beach emergency services, the fire is now out. As a result, Chevron has launched an internal investigation to determine the cause.

Throughout the night, Chevron’s emergency response team has been actively managing the situation with a primary focus on ensuring the safety of employees, responders and the community. All personnel and contractors have been accounted for, and no injuries have been reported. As a precautionary measure, Chevron’s Health Safety and Environmental team has been conducting mobile air monitoring in the community.
Chevron is actively working with local, state and federal agencies, including CalOSHA, CALOSPR and the South Coast Air Quality Management District, who were notified and are monitoring the incident. Chevron is also providing information updates to the California Energy Commission (No period)

Additional updates will be provided as more information is available.

-- END --

Chevron's October 3rd press release about the El Segundo refinery incident is a masterclass in minimization - and a troubling case study in what happens when cost-cutting meets critical infrastructure.

Let's start with the obvious: this wasn't a "fire" as Chevron's sanitized language suggests. Witnesses reported a massive explosion visible for miles. By downplaying the severity in their opening sentence, Chevron immediately undermines their credibility. This is corporate crisis management 101 - control the narrative by controlling the vocabulary.

This incident didn't happen in a vacuum. It follows significant workforce reductions in precisely the departments designed to prevent such disasters: health and safety, operations, and process safety teams. When you cut the people who exist to identify hazards, maintain equipment, and ensure operational integrity, you're not "streamlining" - you're gambling with public safety. This explosion may be the bill coming due.

Someone should tell Chevron's PR team that using "actively" three times in a two-paragraph statement doesn't make their response sound more... active. It makes it sound desperate. "Actively managing," "actively working," "active response" - it's linguistic padding that screams "we need to sound like we're in control."

When companies reduce headcount in safety-critical roles, they often claim they're becoming "more efficient" or "optimizing operations." What they rarely admit is that they're accepting higher risk. Every refinery operator cut is one less person watching gauges. Every process safety engineer laid off is one less person reviewing procedures. Every HSE specialist let go is one less voice saying "wait, this isn't safe."
This press release is exactly what you'd expect from a company trying to manage public perception while potentially sitting on the consequences of their own cost-cutting decisions.

Bottom Line: Chevron wants you to believe this was a minor incident, professionally handled. The reality - a massive explosion at a facility that recently shed safety personnel - tells a different story. The community deserves better than corporate euphemisms and the word "actively" used as a credibility substitute.

Reporter: Mr. Profitson, thank you for joining us. Let’s get right to it—your company has experienced multiple safety incidents in recent months, some resulting in serious injuries. Employees say morale is at an all-time low. How do you respond?

CEO Max Profitson: First off, let me say—we’re absolutely crushing it. Our shareholders are thrilled, and I just got a new yacht. So, clearly, things are going great.

Reporter: Respectfully, sir, that doesn’t address the safety concerns. There have been three major accidents in the last quarter alone.

CEO: Look, accidents happen. That’s just part of the exciting chaos of innovation. If anything, it shows our employees are really pushing the limits. I mean, who needs safety when you’ve got quarterly growth?

Reporter: But many of those employees were laid off. You outsourced entire departments to countries with little to no industry regulation. Isn’t that part of the problem?

CEO: I call it “strategic efficiency.” Why pay someone $100,000 when you can pay $3 and a sandwich? That’s just good business. Besides, the new teams are very enthusiastic. They may not know what they’re doing, but they’re cheap and that’s what matters.

Reporter: That sounds incredibly reckless. Don’t you feel any responsibility for the chaos and declining morale?

CEO: Morale is overrated. I find that fear is a much better motivator. If people are worried about losing their jobs, they work harder. Or they quit. Either way, I save money.

Reporter: You’ve taken a 300% salary increase this year while cutting thousands of jobs. How do you justify that?

CEO: Easy. I’m worth it. Have you seen our stock price? It’s up 0.3%! That’s practically a miracle in this economy. I’m basically a financial wizard.

Reporter: But your employees are protesting. Some are calling this the “Corporate Dark Ages.”

CEO: That’s just noise. If they spent less time complaining and more time working, we wouldn’t have these problems. I mean, I gave them pizza last quarter. What more do they want?

Reporter: Accountability? Safety? A living wage?

CEO: Look, I’m not here to make friends. I’m here to make shareholders rich. And myself. Mostly myself.

Reporter: I’m sorry, but how are you still employed?

CEO: Golden parachute, baby. Even if I get fired, I walk away with enough money to buy a small country. So really, I can’t lose.

Reporter: I think we’re done here.

CEO: Great! I’ve got a meeting with my yacht designer. We’re adding a helipad.

Chevron is beginning to resemble Boeing during its most turbulent years. Leadership has implemented aggressive cost-cutting measures, resulting in significant layoffs and extensive outsourcing—decisions that have compromised both operational stability and long-term innovation. The normalization of constant disruption has led to safety concerns that were previously unheard of, and the workforce is visibly strained, both mentally and emotionally.

Despite this, executive compensation continues to rise, and shareholder returns remain disproportionately high. There appears to be a disconnect between leadership and the realities on the ground. The lessons from Boeing’s missteps—particularly the consequences of extreme cost-cutting—seem to have gone unheeded.

Rather than acknowledging their role in the current state of affairs, leadership is likely to deflect responsibility onto employees. The decisions made by Mike and Mark have had a profound impact on Chevron, and accountability is essential. At a minimum, their compensation should be redirected to support the remaining workforce. Ideally, their resignation would mark the end of what many now refer to as the “Chevron Dark Ages.”

Looks like a massive fire at ES refinery. Hope everyone is safe.

Well, now we are the epicenter of attention. And I don't feel good about how they are handling what happened here with our su-k a-s safety and security bosses. My friend in corporate called me already and she knew about it so I am guessing you all do. Things like this happen but we are not confident the corporate teams can address this. HR and our managers are trying but everyone knows safety and security is not good and definitely not trusted. Pray for us!

At Chevron, the HSE department is less of a safety net and more of a loosely tied hammock made of red tape and bad decisions. If common sense were PPE, they'd be working barefoot on a rig made of matches. Their idea of a safety meeting is a coffee break where they discuss near-misses like ghost stories, fun to hear, but no one learns a damn thing. Policies are either outdated, ignored, or written in a language only ancient bureaucrats understand. Honestly, the only thing they excel at is creating PowerPoints that could lull a fire into extinguishing itself.

I work hard and my performance is really good. My peers and my manager agree on that. I don‘t do politics or engage in rumor-spreading. I trust the board and express this view publicly and in the Employee Survey.

There is no reason SAP should let me go.

I think I am safe.

If you do as I do, you should also be safe.

From what I’m seeing and hearing, Duncan manufacturing will be safe this year from layoffs.

Can someone tell me how to report a safety issue here? I have asked several people and get a who cares, nothing will be done. WTF people. Anybody, I really mean can anybody tell me who to call?

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/ford-mazda-issues-do-not-drive-advisory-457000-vehicles

Mazda vehicle built with Ford powertrain are part of this recall.

What's the over-under on whether Schart gets asked about improving employee safety in the wake of horrific stabbing mu---r on Charlotte's light rail? I've seen crazies wander into lobbies off the street while the fat "security" ladies did nothing but yell at them. At least other companies have security officers guarding external entrances.

And yes, I've already submitted my question on this subject.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/ford-recalls-1-46m-u-s-vehicles-over-rearview-camera-defect/ar-AA1MaHG1?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=68c00a1e6c224f8e9c09e72573a69def&ei=25

111 Recalls and counting.

https://autopostglobal.com/car-news-industry/article/65298/

Here we go again. OMG.

UC San Diego Health faces backlash over layoffs of 230 workers

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/ucsd-healths-230-layoffs-spark-safety-staffing-concerns-amid-union-opposition/ar-AA1Hlv5l?apiversion=v2\&noservercache=1\&domshim=1\&renderwebcomponents=1\&wcseo=1\&batchservertelemetry=1\&noservertelemetry=1

The layoffs, announced on Monday, represent about 1.5% of the health system's workforce and include a range of frontline healthcare providers.

Company: UC San Diego Health
Number of People Laid Off: 230
Locations: San Diego, CA
Industry: Healthcare

UC San Diego Health has laid off about 230 employees across its hospitals and clinics, representing roughly 1.5 percent of its workforce. The cuts included a range of frontline healthcare workers such as pharmacists, clinical social workers, and laboratory scientists. The health system said the decision was driven by financial pressures, citing federal policy changes, regulatory uncertainty, and rising costs of care.

The move has sparked backlash from labor representatives, who argue that layoffs will worsen existing staffing shortages and jeopardize patient safety. Union leaders warned that reducing staff could increase the risk of diagnostic errors and leave nurses and other providers overwhelmed.

Some employees were reportedly dismissed mid-shift with little notice. One former IT staff member described being handed paperwork, given a few minutes to collect his belongings, and then escorted out. Workers and unions alike expressed concern that patients seeking care at one of the region’s top hospitals may not realize the strain staff are under behind the scenes.