Gazprom-AR2014

Environment and Social Responsibility
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Occupational Health
Providing safe and comfortable working environment for every employee
is one of Gazprom’s fundamental operating principles.
The following goals underpin OAO Gazprom’s Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Policy:
— create safe labour conditions and protect the lives and health of employees;
— ensure reliable operation of hazardous industrial facilities;
— reduce the risks of incidents at hazardous industrial facilities;
The Policy’s key provisions are implemented via OAO Gazprom’s existing Unified Occupational
Health and Safety Management System, comprising a set of regulations, activities and guidelines
that unify all workflows to promote a safe and healthy working environment. The organisational
framework of the Unified Occupational Health and Safety Management System comprises
OAO Gazprom, its major gas exploration, production, processing, transportation and underground
storage subsidiaries, and its subsidiaries supporting the operation of the Russian UGSS, with a
total headcount of 306,000 employees.
Occupational health and safety governance at OAO Gazprom is provided by the Deputy
Chairman of OAO Gazprom’s Management Committee in charge of OAO Gazprom’s operations
departments. In 2013, the Company set up OAO Gazprom’s OHS Committee and OHS Administration.
In 2014, a certification audit of the Unified Occupational Health and Safety Management System
was completed at OAO Gazprom’s subsidiaries and its headquarters. Based on its results,
the Company was issued a compliance certificate confirming that its Unified Occupational Health
and Safety Management System was compliant with OHSAS 18001:2007 as regards gas, gas
condensate and oil production, treatment, transportation, processing/refining, distribution, and
storage operations. The certificate covers OAO Gazprom’s headquarters and 26 subsidiaries and
is valid until 8 December 2017. The total headcount of OAO Gazprom’s and its subsidiaries’ employees
who successfully passed the certification process is 222,000 persons.
Pursuant to OAO Gazprom’s Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Policy, the Company’s
major commitments in this area include:
— reducing the number of emergencies and occupational injury and disease rates on an ongoing
basis;
— ensuring the efficiency and continuous improvement of the occupational health and safety
management system;
— prioritising actions and initiatives scheduled or being implemented to prevent the adverse
impacts from operations on personnel and local population over the response actions
required to mitigate such impacts;
— identifying, assessing and mitigating OHS risks;
— implementing OHS management solutions, techniques and tools;
— promoting pro-active involvement of the personnel in OHS activities;
— ensuring continuous improvement of OHS qualifications and competences;
— monitoring compliance with OHS requirements in operations;
— requiring that suppliers and contractors operating at the Company’s facilities comply with the
OHS standards and regulations used by OAO Gazprom.
OAO Gazprom’s OHS objectives for 2014 were largely achieved. To make this success possible,
in the reporting year, all subsidiaries within the organisational framework of the Unified
Occupational Health and Safety Management System developed programmes to improve labour
conditions and occupational safety and manage OHS risk exposures, as well as action plans
to ensure occupational safety at hazardous industrial facilities.
OAO Gazprom Annual Report 2014