瑞士越洋钻探公司滴血的安全奖金

    因为英国石油公司（BP）的大规模漏油事件，BP前任CEO唐熙华曾经登上2010年最愚蠢商业事件榜首，可谓“实至名归”。但与漏油事件相关的糟糕决策却并未就此画上句号。

    漏油事件中发生爆炸的墨西哥湾石油钻井属于瑞士越洋钻探公司（Transocean）所有。今年4月，这家公司在委托声明书中称，“虽然在墨西哥湾发生了人员伤亡的悲剧”，但2010年仍是公司历史上“最安全的一年”。

    更恶劣的是，公司高管获得了898,282美元奖金，其中很一部分正是源于公司的安全记录。

    越洋钻探公司的九名员工死于“深水地平线”漏油事件。而公司这次的反应与2009年截然相反：当时，由于四名员工在一次事故中丧生，公司扣除了高管的奖金。

    这则消息很快成为一场公关危机，在发布委托声明书四天后，越洋钻探公司宣布，公司高管将“自愿”向深水地平线纪念基金会（Deepwater Horizon Memorial Fund）捐出250,000美元（相对于奖金总额，这只不过是个小头）。希望2012年，越洋钻探公司的高管还能获得与安全相关的奖金。——雪莱•迪布瓦

Transocean pays bonuses for 'safety'

    BP's big oil spill made former CEO Tony Hayward the hands-down winner in our 2010 list of dumbest moments in business. But bad spill-related choices didn't end last year.

    This past April, Transocean, which owned the rig that exploded in the Gulf, claimed in its proxy statement that 2010 was "the best year" for safety in the company's history, "notwithstanding the tragic loss of life in the Gulf of Mexico."

    Even worse, top Transocean execs were eligible to receive $898,282 in bonuses, in part because of the company's safety record.

    Nine Transocean workers died in the Deepwater Horizon spill. It was an about-face from 2009, when the company withheld executive bonuses due to an event that killed four employees.

    The news quickly became a PR crisis, and four days after the proxy statement Transocean announced that top executives would "voluntarily" donate over $250,000, a fraction of their total bonuses, to the Deepwater Horizon Memorial Fund. Hopefully, Transocean execs will earn their safety-related bonuses in 2012. -- Shelley DuBois