Step Change in Safety appoints co-chair

Offshore staff

ABERDEEN, UK -- Rick Cohagan, MD of Chevron Upstream Europe, has been appointed co-chair of Step Change in Safety. He will work with the Step Change leadership team and co-chair with Doug Halkett.

"As an industry, it is absolutely essential that we adopt an open approach to safety and engage everyone from the boardroom to the field in sharing perspectives on safety in order to overcome the challenges we currently face," Cohagan says. "I am convinced that the industry's safety performance will continue to improve. Industry-wide collaboration is the real key to achieving our objective of world-class safety performance within the UK oil and gas sector."

The Step Change in Safety initiative was founded in 1997, with the aim of reducing the industry injury rate by 50%, according to the organization. Its leadership team includes MDs of fifteen operator and contractor companies and representatives from seven trade associations, including the UK health and safety executive, and trade unions.

10/30/2007