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Safety – the key to development
SAFETY
Safety – the key to development
3.1. Safety Policy at PKN ORLEN
Dariusz Loska
Director of the HSE Office
Ensuring a high level of safety in the petrochemical
industry is a huge challenge. The specific nature of this
industry involves a higher risk of hazards than in other
branches of the economy. This is why we always insist
that health and life protection is our priority. The actions
taken within the area of safety are aimed at achieving
those objectives on all organisational levels, both
during and outside working hours.
We strive to achieve and maintain a safety level which
will eliminate the risk of fatal, grave and group accidents,
including accidents involving employees of outsourced
contractors. An accident, fire or failure is not
something that cannot be avoided. Their effective
prevention is possible.
Increasing safety is an extremely complicated process.
It is important to apply the right training programme.
To educate is often more effective than to control.
The application of innovative technological and organisational
solutions is not an insignificant issue, too.
However, we must not forget that people are always
in the centre of our attention.
PKN ORLEN’s safety policy is based on two fundamental
principles. First of all, human life and health protection
is always regarded as superior. Moreover, the corporate
operational activities take into account all the relevant
HSE standards, good practice and the latest achievements
of knowledge and technology. The direction
of HSE-related activities is determined by the idea of full
safety assumed by the Company: “Zero accidents means
100% safety”.
PKN ORLEN’s safety policy is described in the Integrated
Management System Policy. In accordance with the document,
we protect the life and health of our employees,
outsourced contractors, suppliers and visitors by:
• performing comprehensive technological, organi sational,
economic and legal activities to prevent accidents
among our employees and outsourced contractors,
fire outbreaks and industrial or radiological failure;
• ensuring a safe working environment for everybody;
• systematically improving the safety culture;
• integrating and improving cooperation between
the ORLEN Group companies in the field of the safety
of work via a common safety platform;
• cooperation with leading scientific institutions
and knowledge transfer to the Company. PKN ORLEN
shall take reasonable efforts to continue such cooperation.
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