Ogre414

Do you feel that the oil industry might have problems with its selection of workers due to its public image?

Due to the pervasiveness of "oil people bad, oil companies evil etc," do you think more responsible leaders avoid your industry for ones that have higher moral ground like medicine, which in turn causes the events which further damage the industry's public image causing a downward spiral?

Recent psych grad thinking about going into OH&S.

I'm mainly interested in stress in the workplace, from what I've read, the oil industry can be a wild place, physically and mentally.

Where I live, which is anti-oil central, I think it's a shame that all people hear, listening to NPR in their VW Toureg, drinking out of a plastic Starbucks cup, is how irresponsible a company is whenever something goes wrong. The demands of the industry seem underappreciated, myself included.

If you were to say just one problem in the oil industry, what would that be? What kind of education is needed to be the person that can help solve it?