The advent of an oil and gas industry will challenge Guyana to raise its safety and health game above the currently existing level since that is what will be demanded by any major foreign companies likely to be associated with the industry, going forward, a leading local safety and health official has told Stabroek Business.
“Companies like Exxon and the like are bound to come to the table with their own safety and health standards and those local entities collaborating with them in the recovery process will be required to measure up to those standards,” Dale Beresford, a former municipal safety and health employee, who now runs his own training service, told this newspaper in an interview on Monday.
And according to Beresford there is no evidence up to this time that the country’s health and safety standards are moving in the direction of