@b1 for us not in IT, please give an example or two
16 replies (most recent on top)
@b2, company is generally bad at root cause analysis and our leaders lack fluency. I’ve heard leaders talking about BBLT incident and focusing on barricades and gas testing as root cause. Master class in bowtie diagrams.
It infuriates all of us, especially when people get hurt or die. I repeat: how is the ELT & specifically MW being held accountable? For fu-k’s sake, on HIS watch people burned alive, and that fu---r gets a massive raise. What is wrong with the BOD? Have a minimum of decency and enact CONSEQUENCES for that entire ELT, starting with MW. ENOUGH already!
Retiree here, 4 years now. So what’s the story with incidents- does management EVER report root cause to the employees? Seems like the incidents make news but we never hear WHY? Maybe MN needs to show accountability by sharing more details. He infuriates me.
Similarly, over 20 major IT incidents. 20!!!
This is not really about ENGINE though since IT has already moved to MSP and this is really about a CIO and his IT Ops director who are really just incompetent in running an IT organization.
Major IT incidents lead to OE/HSE and LPO outcomes.
What is ridiculous is that LC has everybody doing d-mb things in ADO so that his EY buddies can show data in dashboards that our interns can make. Notice that in all of his communications, it’s never about IT performance and reliability. He won’t address the big issues happening in his function. All swept under the rug.
Folks, correlation is coincidence, not causation. Let’s please wait for the investigation. No injuries/fatalities is good news. Let’s hope the refinery is not shutdown like some others in Cali recently after a major incident.
@a9 100% in HSE we people who have experience are laughing at the picks to be leaders and advisors in Houston. Looking up my own chain, no one has real safety experience. They are the “Chevron” types who looked at it as an easy way to move up but have never had to do the hard work.
Yup, and in STAAC DM’s solution to safety is to drastically reduce the contracting safety headcount. Sounds super smart at this time.
we are the next BOEING!!!
The incidents are tragedies. Fortunately El Segundo and Bishop ranch didn’t have fatalities. Angola did.
They are regrettable, but predictable. Not the specifics of course, however the impact of reorgs and layoffs is well documented. Did the DA model carry the impact of increased incidents?
There will be another kabuki safety stand soon. They are the “thoughts and prayers” of HES.
Bishop was the well blowout disaster in CO, which forced a school and several homes to be evacuated for months.
Also, at least our CIP is going to be total sh-t this year.
It’s remarkable to look back at how strong our Safety Culture was in 2016. Fast forward nine years, over half of our experienced HSE personnel have been cut, and individuals with no HSE background have been placed in leadership roles under the banner of DEI. Meanwhile, incident and fatalities continue to rise.
The cost of the El Segundo fire alone will far exceed what it would have taken to retain seasoned HSE professionals by 100x. I retired last year, and it’s clear many of my former coworkers have gone on to thrive elsewhere, a reflection of the caliber of talent we lost and will never regain.
It raises a hard question: have we prioritized optics over operational knowledge? Has experience been devalued to the point that we’ve forgotten what it takes to support the work we do?
Living in San Ramon, I can say without hesitation I wouldn’t consider moving to Houston for a company that does not care about you. Chevron today is not the company I joined back in the day. What once was a company that delivered results the right way has been replaced by something unrecognizable, a version that talks values but no longer lives them.
I would simply ask this: take a close, honest look at the HSE leaders today and ask yourself what you see.
Zero is attainable.
IF PROPERLY STAFFED AND WITH PROPER PROTOCOLS BEING EXECUTED AND ENFORCED.
Otherwise, we're back to 1925.
You can throw Pascagoula in there are well.
Don't forget Angola and the three fatalities from that incident.