Chevron CEO Mike Wirth told employees they needed to reinforce safety standards after a growing number of injury near-misses in an internal video message on April 29, just weeks before three workers died due to a fire on one of the company’s oil platforms in Angola.
“We’ve seen a concerning increase in serious near-misses, especially over the last few weeks,” Wirth said in the video, which Reuters has viewed. “Some of these events could have resulted in fatalities.”
The warning came after the U.S. oil major announced in February that it is laying off up