safety - PKN Orlen

Corporate responsibility report
WE INTEND TO INTRODUCE:
• a safety passport for external contractors;
• a HSE assistant;
• training for outsourced contractors incorporating
scenarios of possible crisis situations that
may occur in the course of their work within
the Company’s premises.
Open communication with employees at all levels
of the orga nisational structure enables cooperation in developing
internal standards and documents in the area
of HSE, fire prevention and process safety. Any suggestions
made by the employees are recorded and are often used
to solve work safety issues.
The measures taken by PKN ORLEN to improve the safety
and conditions of work have for the second time been
rewarded with the “Gold Card of a Safe Work Leader”.
Dialogue is the best way to develop and ensure maintenance
of certain standards. A HSE Committee has been
established at PKN ORLEN. The principles of the Committee’s
activities were regulated in an agreement with
trade unions. The agreement was executed on the basis
of the provisions of the Corporate Collective Labour
Agreement and generally applicable legislation. The Committee
settles any issues associated with the development
of HSE conditions in the Company. The same regulations
serve as a basis for the functioning of a social labour
inspection whose work is administered by labour unions.
Cooperation aimed at developing good HSE conditions
in the Company includes meetings of the Corporate Social
Labour Inspector and Departmental Social Labour Inspectors
with trade unions, attended by a member of the PKN
ORLEN Management Board and employer’s representatives
responsible for contacting the social labour inspectorate.
Half of the Committee members are the employer’s representatives,
including HSE service personnel and a medical
doctor responsible for preventive medical care of the employees.
The other half are representatives of the employees,
including the Corporate Social Labour Inspector.
It should be noted that the HSE Office cooperates directly
with the Inspector. These activities result in solutions
to difficult problems concerning HSE and establishment
of work safety procedures within the Comprehensive
Prevention System, among others.
3.2. More than HSE
Product safety
The safety of all products offered by PKN ORLEN, both
fuels and petrochemicals, is guaranteed in accordance
with the EU and national legislation as well as corporate
standards and regulations. Products are provided
with material safety data sheets that constitute a basic
source of information about the chemical substance
and preparation. That information is forwarded throughout
the entire supply chain. Material safety data sheets
contain information concerning, among others, hazards,
composition, behaviour in case of fire and other data.
We implement rational management. We apply technologies
and processes based on our theoretical and practical
knowledge in the field of manufacturing specific products.
We ensure adequate conditions and technical protection
of production and logistic processes.
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