Our health, safety, and environmental performance is vital to our ‘license to operate’ and to making us attractive as an employer as well as a business with which others – customers, suppliers, and partners – wish to work.
We actively manage the health, safety, and environment aspects of all our activities and these factors always come first in the decisions we make.
We are committed to minimizing the risk of harm, with our greatest focus on high-risk activities. Our Life Saving Rules are central to our ‘LIFE’ (Life-changing Injuries and Fatalities Elimination) ambition, as well as efforts to prevent major environmental incidents.
We aim to achieve world-class performance, and we have made long-term health, safety, and environment commitments.
Our long-term HSE commitments are to foster
Positive health and well-being work environments.
Safe working conditions as well as continual improvement.
Environmental protection to minimize our impact.
Learnings from successes and failures
Trust by open reporting and through external validation
Our 10 Life Saving Rules
Our Life Saving Rules focus on protecting all those who work with us when engaging in the potentially most hazardous tasks. Training on these rules is mandatory.
I am trained and certified to perform high-risk activities.
I perform a last minute risk assessment (Stop! Take 5) before starting my work.
I apply 1 person, 1 lock, 1 key.
I apply the 7 steps for all electrical activities.
I use properly guarded machines.
I protect myself against falling from heights
I keep a safe distance from any suspended loads.
I make sure the air is safe prior to entry.
I fasten my seat belt.
I keep my hands on the wheel, never on a phone.
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Our HSE Week, through a mix of global and local events and activities, encourages those working for us to ‘Do the right thing!’ and helps build knowledge and capabilities as we strive towards world-class performance. Our annual HSE Awards enable us to recognize the individuals and teams contributing to that journey.
Our approach acknowledges that we all have responsibility for protecting ourselves, others, and the environment. We adopt an operational philosophy based on the principles of human and organizational performance which helps us understand how successes and failures occur. This open reporting environment enables us to learn directly from our people and find improvements.
Likewise, thousands of learning walks, internally known as safety observation tours, are conducted annually and provide a proactive means for tackling risks before they become incidents. Learning also comes from a robust program of auditing and through incident investigations.
The foundations for effective HSE performance are seen in how we remove or manage potential risks.
Our HSE documentation includes the standards we expect all activities to achieve or exceed – defining the minimum requirements within the company and prescribing full compliance with all laws and regulations wherever we are working.
Through our ‘Stop! Take 5’ and Time Out For Safety (TOFS) approaches, we actively encourage everyone working for us to raise concerns where they believe appropriate controls are not in place for safe working.
Our approach to well-being embraces physical, mental, and occupational health
Physical health:
We run wellness programs to motivate behavior change, drive engagement, and promote better health practices.
Mental health:
We are integrating proactive wellbeing management into our strategy.
Occupational health:
We ensure safe workplaces and working conditions by complying with the applicable occupational health and industrial hygiene standards.
Preventing harm requires more than systems and processes - it requires disciplined operations, proactive risk management, and capable people. These remain the cornerstones of our HSE strategy and our commitment to protecting people and planet.
Our Environmental Product Declarations (EPD)
The EPD provides transparent, verified data on environmental impact across its lifecycle.