Sharing worst practice

18th August 2011


Following pledges by Oil & Gas UK to ensure the sector learns the lessons of a leak from a Shell platform off the coast of Scotland, Sarah-Jayne Russell argues that honesty is definitely the best policy.

Nobody likes to be reminded of their mistakes; whether it’s a bad haircut, a foolish car purchase or a cringemaking foot-in-mouth moment. To err may be human, but we all like to hope that we are sligh

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