safety - PKN Orlen

Corporate responsibility report
Safety of service suppliers and outsourced
contractors
One of PKN ORLEN’s objectives is to increase safety
among subcontractors. We undertake various measures
to achieve to achieve that objective, for example:
• pursuant to the decision of PKN ORLEN Management
Board of 11 August 2009, outsourced contractors
were obligated to implement a HSE Management
System in accordance with the Polish Standard
PN–N–18001:2004 Health, Safety and Environment
Management Systems. Requirements. Since 1 July
2010, the implementation of this system has been
one of the selection criteria for outsourced contractors
of future works at the Production Plant in Płock;
• we include a “Work safety” clause in contracts with
outsourced contractors;
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of emergency situations. They ensure protection of people,
natural environment and property. All the documents
have been submitted to the local administration authorities,
i.e. Regional Environmental Protection Inspectorates
and National Fire Brigade units.
The Company operates a Process Safety Management
System based on the nine pillars referred to in Article
252 of the Environmental Protection Law that guarantee
protection of people and the environment. That
system is an element of PKN ORLEN’s overall management
and organisation system. It implements the Major
Accidents Prevention Policy (MAPP) applicable to all
the Company’s facilities and hazard analysis and process
risk assessment instructions.
The safety and protection measures applied at PKN ORLEN
are adequately correlated with the potential hazards. This
way, we are certain that we ensure an adequate level
of safety in our technological facilities.
• we have prepared a Guidebook for outsourced contractors
and the PKN ORLEN services assisting outsourced
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• we have improved the monitoring of accidents involving
outsourced contractors within the premises
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of the Production Plant in Płock;
• we organise training sessions and we talk to outsourced
contractors and their employees.
Technology safety and process safety
The Production Plant in Płock, the PTA Plant in Włocławek
and all the Fuel Terminals comply with the requirements
of the EU Seveso II Directive implemented into the Polish
Environmental Protection Law in the field of preventing
major failure.
In concern for safety, PKN ORLEN has developed and regularly
updates documents containing systematic solutions
for prevention of and protection against the effects
PKN ORLEN performs process hazard analysis and safety
assessment by using such tools as: Preliminary Hazard
Analysis (PHA), Hazard and Operability Study (HAZOP)
and Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA). They help
avoid mistakes already at the stage of issuing opinions
about and recommendations for project plans involving
the Company’s facilities. The Process Safety Management
System undoubtedly minimises the risk of failure.
For example, the very introduction of the HAZOP analysis
resulted in a drop in the number of failures.
The principles of process safety are implemented at PKN
ORLEN at every stage of the functioning of technical
facilities, beginning with designing through construction,
operation and modernisation until disconnection and closure.
The facilities are equipped with modern security
and protection systems (e.g. monitoring and measuring
systems, alarms, safety locks, fire safety systems and explosion
prevention systems).
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