Monthly Archives: October 2010

Courts encourage businesses to harm more people

By Rory | Published: 8 October, 2010
The more people harmed by a corporation’s negligence, the lower the court penalty for environmental and occupational health offences is likely to be, researchers have found. Loran Nordgren and Mary McDonnell, writing in the journal Social Psychology and Personality Science discovered the phenomenon held up in both theoretical and real life cases. Their examination of […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , | Comments closed

BP safety talk is really about shareholders

By Rory | Published: 6 October, 2010
The creation by BP of a new global safety unit with “sweeping powers” has the safety of shareholders’ money as its “ultimate goal”, the company’s top boss has admitted. In a 1 October news release from the oil giant’s London HQ announcing the “powerful new organisation”, BP chair Carl-Henric Svanberg said there were “difficult challenges […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | Comments closed