Health and Safety
Gazprom Neft’s operations are based on the concept of sustainable development centred around the following principles:
- A balanced response to social and economic challenges
- Healthy employees, a clean environment, and resource conservation.
Employees and the Workplace
Gazprom Neft guarantees its employees adequate and safe working conditions in strict compliance with license regulation for industrial safety. The Company monitors working conditions, assesses workplaces, and implements risk insurance programmes on an ongoing basis.
Standardisation
In order to ensure a uniform approach to industrial safety issues across all the Group’s units, the Company applies its Health, Safety and Environment Policy. This consists of continuous improvement of working conditions, higher levels of industrial and environmental safety, introduction of adequate management systems, and basic safety requirements for employees and contractors.
Since 2008 all Group units have been adopting the Integrated Management System for Health, Safety and Environment as required by OHSAS 1800, ISO 14001 and ISO 9001. At the same time, all Gazprom Neft companies have been adhering to standards for the identification, assessment and minimisation of occupational risks.
The implementation of new standards is controlled in real time with the help of the Azimut computer system. This system ensures on-line monitoring across the Company's units and makes it possible to receive quick alerts in the event of any accidents.
The implementation of the Health, Safety and Environment Policy in 2010 led to a twenty-fold increase in the accident transparency rate as compared to 2007 and a substantial reduction in the number of industrial injuries.
