Okay.
I've talked to a lot of workers in the course of the inquiry and since then. They come up to me in the supermarket or wherever I am and they talk about it. The literature out of the North Sea says this: that the transportation by helicopter is the most dangerous part of an offshore oil worker's work.
What we found when we did surveys of the workforce during the inquiry is not that people were terrified of going on the helicopter, but that a large percentage had a feeling of anxiety. Now, the more you involve workers, the more you explain, and the more they can hear pilots explain and hear briefings, the more they feel part of the process, just like any of us would feel.
When you feel you're part of a process, you're better able to handle things than when you feel you're not part of it, but a pawn in the game, as it were. That's why I think it's so important that workers have all the knowledge they can be given, and be a part of the decision and have influence, if not the actual decider, but at least influencing the decision-making process. I've talked to people who've said, “Look, I've been going offshore for eight or nine years and feel I'm lucky that I've had no incident in the air or on the ocean, and I think I'll choose another career now.”
You know, there is a certain anxiety among a given number of people, and it's not a small number of people. That's why I think we need worker involvement and input.