Lots of reductions in safety stuff. Seems scary? Is it a good thing?
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@qe Make sense now?
@qe green man
You could trim 2/3 of Chevron's HSE organization, and the only consequence would be that field safety would improve.
HSE has, sadly, become performative nonsense done by those with little real understanding of the actual business or associated operational risks. The fewer bureaucrats, the better.
It’s hard to overstate how dysfunctional the current HSE and ETC leadership has become. The VPs leading these functions are fundamentally unqualified, neither are HSE professionals by background or capability, and their teams are stacked with individuals who lack real-world field experience. It's a toxic mix of performative DEI and blatant nepotism. Regardless of how many people they have, or how few, the output is consistently poor.
The results speak for themselves: our HSE performance is regressing at an alarming rate, and it's not hard to see why. We've systematically removed some of the most competent HSE professionals, people with deep Chevron experience and real field credibility and now those same experts are thriving elsewhere while we fall apart.
Frankly, it’s time for OSHA to step in. If Mike and Mark don’t initiate a hard reset and bring in real professionals, we’re on track for a SIF and TRIR trajectory that resembles the worst days of the 1960s. I say this without exaggeration.
Has anyone taken a serious look at our ISO certifications lately? If the auditors actually conducted a thorough review, rather than rubber-stamping what we tell them, they’d revoke every single one. We're bluffing our way through compliance.
@jg who is it
So true. The execution of policies and procedures are stranded in the new org and the SIF's were prevented by hard working employees that cared. Now everyone left knows how much work it takes and is just brushing it off as someone else's responsibility in the new org because they have way more to do with less people. It is astonishing the amount of things related to HSE that are just being stopped and abandoned.
Just wait until you get to experience the new S&T leader...
@ak The "leaders" LOL, there is someone behind the curtain and it is not Oz.
@ag Spot on regarding AI and using it on the workforce.
What did it say?
Fu-k the leaders. Let the SIFs keep rolling in.
Glad they outsourced clarity about the org to an AI agent.. smh