HSE Annual Report 2010 (English) - WINTERSHALL

THE HSE AWARD – A PRIzE FOR
INNOvATIvE EMPLOYEE IDEAS.
Innovative solutions for improvement of health,
safety and environment are rewarded at Wintershall.
The company has been conferring an HSE Award
since 2007, a prize for outstanding projects in the
field of protecting health, safety and the ecology.
An award category for “Simple Solutions” – a small
and smart solution that has a perceptible impact
on everyday work through minor changes – was
added in 2010.
The HSE Award rewards proactive and creative
measures that have been successfully implemented
at the company during the contest period and
have resulted in a clear improvement in the field of
HSE. An additional criteria for the reward is whether
the solution can be applied at other locations.
The aim of the contest is to improve our high HSE
performance continuously. Each entry is an enrichment
for the whole company’s HSE performance,
since all the solutions are communicated within the
company worldwide. Therefore they can be taken
up by other teams and developed further.
In line with the HSE mission statement “Everyone
counts,” all employees are urged to join in and submit
innovative ideas from their team. The award is
intended as an additional incentive – above and
beyond the company suggestion system – for
employees to become involved in HSE and is
accompanied by a tax-free cash prize.
The winners are chosen by an evaluation committee
consisting of ten permanent jurors and representatives
of the winning teams from the previous contest.
The jury examines all entries and assesses them on
the basis of set criteria – the most important being
the project’s benefit for health, safety and the
environment. Others include the HSE solution’s
pro-activity, personal initiative and team spirit.
HSE-AWARD 2010.
22 entries were submitted in the 2010 competition,
eight in the category “Simple Solutions“. The award
in the HSE project category was conferred to a
team from Libya that had worked on a way to improve
protection of anchor pipes at wells against
external corrosion in the Libyan Desert for three
years. The solution includes an innovative coating
and intensification of pipeline checks. The winner in
the “Simple Solutions” category is based in Wintershall
Netherlands. He developed a door stopper for containers,
a hook-shaped device that prevents the
container doors from suddenly being blown shut
by the wind and so increases work safety.
HEALTH SAFETY ENVIRONMENT