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The spill report—2

01/24/2011
Two important facts will shape offshore safety regulation after the Macondo tragedy of April 2010: US regulation will change, and offshore work conducted under different types of regulation appears, by some metrics, to be safer. The US industry and government should consider a new approach.The contrast between US and European safety regulation becomes clear in the new report to President Barack Obama of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Safety. So does the contrast between results.Regional disparityA chart in the report's eighth chapter plots fatalities per 100 million man-hours worked from three data sources. By that standard, according to the Int...
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