Businesses will only face health and safety inspections if they are operating in areas deemed to be higher-risk, such as construction and food production, or if they have had an accident or a track record of poor performance.
But the question after the Deepwater Horizon accident is how all involved parties including exploration and production companies and drilling contractors can work even more closely together to better understand and significantly reduce the various risks associated with drilling operations.
The ones that dealt with reforming finance read a bit like a co-production between militant anti-capitalists and more cautious types, which was no accident.
If Japan is able to avert a larger nuclear accident and contain the radioactivity to the already affected areas, it stands to reason that industrial production will resume and the economy will recover.
Still suffering the aftershocks of the Macondo accident in the Gulf of Mexico, BP posted fourth quarter earnings on Tuesday, beating estimates despite production declines and significantly lower refining margins.