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Unions argue that abusive behaviour and racism are widespread and wants shake-up of system in light of worsening safety recordTransocean, the American rig owner at the centre of BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill, has been accused of compromising safety in the North Sea by "bullying, harassment and intimidation" of its staff.The allegations, in a damning report by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) seen by the Guardian, will deeply embarrass Transocean, which on Tuesday appears before a House of Commons investigation into the lessons to be learnt from the Deepwater Horizon spill.The offshore and transport union, RMT, argues that abusive behaviour and racism towards an increasingly multinational workforce in the North Sea are widespread, and it wants a huge shake-up of the system in the light of a worsening safety record.The allegations came as Thad Allen, the US official leading the Deepwater Horizon cleanup, said an important milestone had been reached with the replacement of the blowout preventer that failed to stop the flow of oil in the original accident. He said the original device had been hauled to the surface for investigators to determine what went wrong.The HSE reported less than two weeks ago that the combined fatal and major injury rate had almost doubled, rising to 192 per 100,000 workers in 2009-10 from 106 12 months earlier. There was also a big increase in hydrocarbon releases, from 61 to 85 – raising the possibility of fires and explosions offshore, the kind of accident that triggered the Piper Alpha disaster, in which 167 UK workers died.Transocean has so far managed to avoid the kind of acute scrutiny given to BP over the Macondo well, but the British oil company is expected to criticise the rig operator when it publishes its own internal investigation into what went wrong. The HSE "specialist inspection report" resulted from a visit to four rigs operated by Transocean Offshore (North Sea) Ltd, including the John Shaw and Sedco 711, in the summer and autumn of last year.The HSE report says: "The company has not considered the human contribution to safety in a structured and systematic manner," and says the organisational culture is based on blame and intolerance.Most damagingly, the report says instances of unacceptable behaviour by offshore management were raised with HSE inspectors by Transocean staff on more than one rig visited. These included bullying, aggression, harassment, humiliation and intimidation, and were "causing some individuals to exhibit symptoms of work-related stress, with potential safety implications", the HSE says.Responding to the allegations in a statement, Transocean said: "The HSE report confirmed that Transocean has demonstrated a commitment to fostering an organisational culture based on trust and respect that improves our safety and performance records. Third-party assessments such as those conducted by HSE and Lloyd's Register are a key part of the company's philosophy of continuous review and improvement."Jake Molloy, regional organiser for the RMT's offshore branch in Aberdeen, said he was extremely alarmed by the report, but not surprised. "I have dealt with three cases where workers were unfairly dismissed by Transocean and in each one I have been able to win compensation for them," he said. But he feared that Transocean was far from unique, and said the increase in accidents reported by the HSE still almost certainly underestimated the true position."I know from the phone calls I get in this office that other really serious incidents are not being reported because of widespread bullying and intimidation. I cannot follow up these cases because it would expose the guys to losing their jobs," he said.Molloy said he was aware of rigs with 19 different nationalities on board speaking a mixture of Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Italian and French. He feared that some staff did not have the language skills either to communicate well with each other or to understand safety instructions properly. It was not unusual for Filipinos and others to be racially abused.The Guardian has spoken independently to foreign oil workers, who confirm they have faced bullying, intimidation and racism. One, who asked not to be named, said he recently witnessed offshore fires that he was told not to report as it could cause a fuss and endanger either his own job or those of his fellow crew members.The Norwegian safety authorities have just published their own figures and expressed grave concern that the number of hydrocarbon "releases" from their rigs and platforms has gone up from 14 to 15 over the past 12 months.The UK government announced in June it was increasing environmental inspections offshore but also boasted that "our safety and environmental regulatory regime is fit for purpose. It is already among the most robust in the world and the industry's record in the North Sea is strong."Oil and gas companiesCorporate social responsibilityOilTrade unionsTerry Macalisterguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

• Calls for parliament to order second inquiry into hacking• Scotland Yard to examine allegations by former NoW reporterNews International and David Cameron's PR chief, Andy Coulson, face the prospect of a fresh parliamentary inquiry into phone-hacking by the News of the World after Labour MPs said they plan to press for the issue to be referred to the powerful standards and privileges committee of the House of Commons.MPs who believe they have been the victims of hacking said they were considering asking the Speaker, John Bercow, to order the investigation on the grounds that there has been a breach of parliamentary privilege.The move came as Scotland Yard said it would examine allegations made by a former News of the World reporter that hacking was widespread at the tabloid and that then-editor Coulson knew about the practice.In a statement tonight Assistant Commissioner John Yates said the Metropolitan police had not been aware of the allegations made by Sean Hoare before they were published in a New York Times investigation last week. He said detectives were seeking further information from the paper and would consult the Crown Prosecution Service on whether to take further action.The latest developments came on a weekend when:• Lord Mandelson, the former business secretary, was named as the latest possible target of News of the World phone message hacking. He said today he was not the source of the story and did not wish to comment.• Pressure mounted on the Met over its failure to fully investigate leads in the original hacking inquiry, and to notify potential victims they had been targeted.• MPs indicated they would press the home secretary, Theresa May, over the apparent inadequacy of the Met's investigation of the issue during Home Office questions in the Commons tomorrow, and call on her to make an emergency statement.At least three other former ministers believe they were the victims of News of the World phone hacking, including Chris Bryant, Lord Prescott and Tessa Jowell. Prescott has been pressing the police for days to give him details of its inquiry into whether his phone was hacked. Today he produced detailed invoices showing that News International consultants were paid to make inquiries into him.But Yates insisted tonight there was no evidence that Prescott's phone had been hacked by Glen Mulcaire, the private detective working for the News of the World, or Clive Goodman, the paper's royal correspondent. Both were jailed for hacking the phones of members of the royal household. Yates said the Met could not hand over documents relating to the investigation to Prescott unless it was ordered to do so by a court.The prospect of a further investigation by the standards and privileges committee emerged after MPs argued that a precedent may have been set by the decision to mount a privileges committee inquiry into the arrest of the Tory MP Damian Green in his Commons office in 2008 over the alleged leaking of documents from the office of the home secretary.It would be for the Speaker to decide whether to grant an inquiry, but Labour MPs claimed there now appeared to have been a wholesale attempt to break into MPs' phone messages, and the response of the Met had been shown to be inadequate.One Labour source said: "A precedent has been set with the Damian Green affair. This is about the conduct of government, and if it was good enough for the Tories in the case of Green's arrest, it should be good enough in this case."Detailed legal advice will be sought this week from parliamentary sources.A previous culture select committee inquiry concluded that senior figures at News International management suffered from collective amnesia about the details of the hacking. The more powerful privileges committee could demand greater co-operation from witnesses.Today the Guardian publishes a detailed account of the police investigation into the original hacking claims that shows how detectives sought to limit the scope of the inquiry and failed to alert public figures who had been targeted by Mulcaire.A note of a case conference between police and the CPS records that detectives recommended that "the appropriate strategy is to ringfence the case to minimise the risk of extraneous matters being included".In a briefing note for ministers produced earlier this year, Dean Haydon, Yates's staff officer acknowledged: "Minimal work was done on the vast personal data where no criminal offences were apparent."The Conservatives continued to argue that the latest spate of allegations of widespread phone hacking, prompted by a New York Times four-month inquiry, did not break new ground or was based on unreliable witnesses.The specific allegation that No 10 communications director Andy Coulson had known about phone hacking when he was editor of the News of the World were "recycled", a senior cabinet minister, Michael Gove, said.He said the police decided "there was no case to answer" over claims public figures had their phones tapped while Coulson was editor.Coulson resigned at the time saying he would take responsibility even though he had not been aware of the methods that were being used by one of his reporters. His claim of ignorance has been challenged by some former News of the World staff, including some unnamed reporters cited by the New York Times.News of the World phone-hacking scandalAndy CoulsonNews of the WorldHouse of CommonsNewspapers & magazinesNational newspapersPoliceNewspapersPatrick WintourNick Daviesguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds