Extract from Westminster Hall debate on Offshore Helicopter Safety - Feb 6
Thursday, 7 February 2019 06:28
Colin Clark (Gordon) (Con):...Obviously there are commercial
pressures, because the price of oil and gas goes up and down, but
the main thing I get from people I visit in the industry is that
nobody is complacent about safety. No one can visit the
headquarters of an oil and gas company without being forced to hang
on to a railing. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for
Aberdeen North and my hon. Friend the Member for Banff and Buchan,
my colleagues from the north-east, are both nodding...Request free trial
(Gordon)
(Con):...Obviously there are commercial pressures, because
the price of oil and gas goes up and down, but the main thing I get
from people I visit in the industry is that nobody is complacent
about safety. No one can visit the headquarters of an oil and gas
company without being forced to hang on to a
railing. [Interruption.] The
hon. Member for Aberdeen North and my hon. Friend the Member for
Banff and Buchan, my colleagues from the north-east, are both
nodding at that. We would quite literally have a stop order served
on us if we went into the headquarters of BP or Shell and did not use the railing. I do not
know what anyone there would make of health and safety in the
Houses of Parliament—I imagine that they would have cleared us all
out a long time ago...
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