Apparently the oil rig turned off a fire alarm on the rig in question to ensure workers weren't being woken up at night. One would assume that an oil rig would have a working fire alarm 24/7 but maybe that's just too common sense?
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Mr Williams, who is suing the owners of the rig, claims that he raised his concerns about the alarm and other alleged safety failings with his managers.
"The general alarm was inhibited," said Mr Williams, who worked for Transocean, the Geneva-based company that owned the rig. He claimed that the system had been disabled because rig managers "did not want people woken up at 3am with false alarms".
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Link:
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Al...600/story.html