Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) Policy – Examples from Leaders

Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) HSE Policy

In PDO we all commit to:

• Demonstrate Leadership and target Goal Zero – ‘No harm to people, assets or environment’.

• Comply with applicable HSE laws, regulations and standards.

• Identify personal and process risks, and compliance obligations, then establish suitable controls to prevent injuries, ill-health, and pollution occurrence whilst highlighting and minimizing consequences.

• Implement and maintain a formal rule-based HSE management system clearly defining all prerequisites, competencies, ownership and enabling workforce participation.

• Apply the PDO Golden (Comply, Intervene, Respect) and Life Saving Rules across the Company and contractor workforce.

• Pursue continual improvement in HSE and sustainable development.

• Measure, review, and transparently report HSE performance.

Raoul Restucci,
Managing Director,
2016

Schlumberger HSE Policy

The long-term business success of Schlumberger depends on our ability to continually improve the quality of our services and products while protecting people and the environment. Emphasis must be placed on ensuring human health, operational safety, environmental protection, quality enhancement, and community goodwill. This commitment is in the best interests of our customers, our employees and contractors, our stockholders, and the communities in which we live and work.
Schlumberger requires the active commitment to and accountability for QHSE from all employees and contractors. Line management has a leadership role in the communication and implementation of and ensuring compliance with QHSE policies and standards. We are committed to:

• protect and strive for improvement of the health, safety, and security of our people at all times

• eliminate quality nonconformances and HSE accidents

• meet specified customer requirements and ensure continuous customer satisfaction

• set quality and HSE performance objectives; measure results; and assess and continually improve processes, services, and product quality through the use of an effective management system

• plan for, respond to, and recover from any emergency, crisis, and business disruption

• minimize our impact on the environment through pollution prevention, reduction of natural resource consumption and emissions, and the reduction and recycling of waste

• apply our technical skills to all HSE aspects in the design and engineering of our services and products

• communicate openly with stakeholders and ensure an understanding of our QHSE policies, standards, programs and performance; reward outstanding QHSE performance

• improve our performance on issues relevant to our stakeholders that are of global concern and on which we can have an impact and share with them our knowledge of successful QHSE programs and initiatives.

This Policy shall be regularly reviewed to ensure ongoing suitability. The commitments listed are in addition to our basic obligation to comply with Schlumberger standards as well as all applicable laws and regulations where we operate. This is critical to our business success because it allows us to systematically minimize all losses and adds value for all our stakeholders.
Olivier Le Peuch
Schlumberger CEO

Weatherford HSE Policy

Our vision is to conduct our operations in an incident-free workplace, all the time, everywhere. To achieve this vision we:

• Protect our people and the environment where we work

• Take responsibility for our own safety and for those around us

• Monitor and maintain barrier integrity to prevent major accidents

• Comply with our policies and requirements

• Plan all work, identify hazards and manage risk

• Empower our people to stop the job and call a “Time Out for Safety”

• Report and respond to all incidents

• Implement what we learn

Jeremy Thigpen
President and Chief Executive Officer
2015