The Benefit Of The Doubt

These meetings are dead-serious and should be mandatory for any company that works in that part of the business. In recent years, some companies may have neglected to participate as fully as they should. In those cases, perhaps safety isn’t their “core value,” as the industry likes to call it. Unless you are directly involved with upper management, you don’t what a company’s real values are.

But you know what happens when you lose that benefit of the doubt? No one wants to believe you.

(P&GJ Editor Jeff Share won a second-place award for magazine columns in the 2010 Lone Star Awards sponsored by the Houston Press Club. The column published in March 2009 was entitled A Letter To President Obama and detailed the benefits of natural gas in any future energy policy).