GPIC Annual Report 2019
SAFETY, HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT
We are successful at GPIC because Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) management systems is not just a programme; it is a way of life for us. As a forward-looking petrochemical and fertiliser company, GPIC recognises that our commitment to HSE is the foundation for building and maintaining trust and public confidence. It is part of being a good citizen, a good neighbour and a good partner. HSE excellence drives our commitment to sustainable business and defines who we are and what we stand for. By instilling a culture that ensures the well-being and safety of our employees, we empower them to focus on the details and to do what is right, first time, every time. This leads to improved performance and reliable, consistent and predictable delivery of our high-quality products. At GPIC, safety, health and environmental performance is at the top of our agenda and is measured, reported, evaluated and continuously improved upon. It is part of our company’s regular review process and we have set stringent, clear and visible goals with leading and lagging indicators throughout all levels and processes of the organisation. We focus and apply measures to all of the elements of safety culture; Systems and Processes; Skills and Knowledge of Individuals; Behaviours; Attitudes, Perception and Leadership. We have long realised and recognised that there is no single reliable measure of health and safety performance. What is required is a variety of measures providing information on a range of health and safety activities. As a forward-thinking company, GPIC understands the worker safety dimension of sustainability and has started proactively leveraging the OHS and sustainability connection. With the launch of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), GPIC is using these global strategies to underpin its sustainability efforts. In 2019 the biggest achievement was to maintain our excellent HSE achievements through visible safety leadership, focused risk management, enhanced safety and emergency response training, audits and benchmarking. Some of the noteworthy initiatives and programmes of 2019 include the weekly safety summary highlighting the incidents, root cause analysis, positives and focus areas. Fire plans for high-risk scenarios were also prepared enhancing the emergency response preparedness. OHSAS 18001 was successfully transited to ISO 45001. In 2019 we rolled out a comprehensive Safety Related Training plan for 2019-2021 focusing on Emergency Response. Specialised Training including Fire Fighter and Hazmat Training. Certified training courses such as NFPA Fire Code and NFPA 101 Living Safety Code and Authorised Gas Tester and Radiation Awareness Courses were provided. These continual improvement efforts culminated in achieving a record +32 million working hours for its workforce and contractors without any lost time accident, exceeding 16 years of safe work. Moreover, we did not have any Tier 1 and Tier 2 process safety incidents, zero reportable environmental incidents and zero security breaches and incidents. With regard to its excellence in occupational health, safety and the environment, GPIC has been awarded the RoSPA International Safety and Chemical Sector Awards from the Royal Society for Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) from the UK. These awards were presented to GPIC for its outstanding application of SHE
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standards and for undertaking a leading role in this area. GPIC also successfully completed the construction and commissioning of its new Urea Formaldehyde (UF-85) Unit of the Urea Plant with no lost time injury. We also won the Ministry of Labor award for the “Excellence in the Occupational Safety and Safe Working Environment”. The following is a list of significant Safety, Security, Health and Environment (SSHE) achievements during 2019: • Safety training continued to be provided for both Operations and Non-Operations personnel. During 2019 there were 55 Modulised Emergency Response Training (MERT) sessions, attended by plants operation personnel. • GPIC’s First Aid Training and Community Outreach Programme with the National Safety Council (NSC)-USA, which started in 2012 is continuing and to date we have trained more than 400 employees, contractors, industrial and university students, summer camp children, employees’ wives and others. • Walk the Procedure initiative launched. The first of its kind, with a related Standing Instruction. Ten SOPs are selected related to fire equipment maintenance, emergency response etc. and the concerned fire operator demonstrates practically to the safety supervisor all the steps as articulated in the SOP. • 172 employees have attended Safety Media e-learning courses and 60 hours of Safety Media e-learning were completed in 2019. These courses are instructionally designed to engage staff for maximum knowledge retention, including full testing and risk analysis of employees. All courses are SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) compliant and CPD (Continuing Professional Development) certified, with the majority now achieving RoSPA accreditation. • Fire & Safety and Process Safety Campaigns through safety moments, process safety beacons and flashes were enhanced in 2019. One hundred and twenty flashes, videos, and safety moments. Twelve process safety beacons and 10 EPSC Lessons learned. Main campaigns were; on hand safety, safety glasses, near miss reporting, speeding, safety culture; safety complacence. Similarly Environmental, Sustainability and SDG campaigns through +100 flashes, videos + newsletters. Main
