Safety personnel are a must on all your producing assets to ensure that there is no safety incident. In fact, more so now when there is a cash crunch.
Remember the BP incident and the after effect in terms of cash drain to BP. We do not want loss of lives and unnecessary spillage or safety incidents during this period of low oil prices.
So you do need us and we are really essential. I would suggest other areas like finance, engineering, HR , operations be looked at for reduction.
Leave safety personnel out of it so that your loved ones operating in our field facilities and offices would return home to you safely.