Operational, occupational safety
The Company’s safety management system is aimed to implement socio-economic, technical, hygienic, regulatory and organizational measures ensuring operational and occupational safety.
The work covers all the levels of the Company’s organization including four key areas:
- operational and fire safety;
- certification of workplaces in respect of working conditions;
- operational control of hazardous production facilities’ construction and maintenance;
- operational safety examination of technical devices and constructions out of standard operation time used in hazardous production facilities;
OJSC “Surgutneftegas” has organized a monitoring system of working conditions, occupational and fire safety in the Company’s divisions. Annually,
the Company implements workplaces injuries’ prevention projects and constantly controls their realization. A substantial part of Surgutneftegas’ Collective Agreement concerns the measures aimed at working conditions and occupational safety improvement. As a result, the level of workplaces injuries was considerably reduced and the working conditions were improved.
Operational and occupational safety training is provided by the Polytechnic Training Center (PTC) and its branches offering up-dated training modules and its own training ground to practise innovative and safe operational skills.
Surgutneftegas devotes particular attention to working conditions and their strict compliance with all current requirements in the area of health, safety and public health regulations to reduce the number of workplaces with harmful working conditions.
Another systematic activity of the Company is connected with comprehensive certification of workplaces. Surgutneftegas has its own laboratory which carries out appropriate measures of the hazardous operational factors’ degree at workplaces. The results of the instrument measurements specify if workplaces correspond to relevant health standards.
Annually, the employees who work in harmful, hazardous and severe climatic conditions on an intensive shift basis are provided an opportunity to have a holiday or undertake a course of medical treatment in the Company’s domestic and foreign health resorts via vouchers of reduced charge.
Surgutneftegas’ garment factory making workwear enables the Company to optimize purchase costs and provide the staff with comfortable clothes maximally protecting against adverse conditions. The workwear is made allowing for the specificity of each performed activity and weather conditions of the North.
Following the results of the contest “Health and Safety - 2007” promoted by the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation, Surgutneftegas was awarded golden medals and has become a laureate in the categories “Occupational Safety Training”, “Disease Prevention and Rehabilitation of the Employees Working in Adverse Conditions” and “Individual and Collective Protection”.
