HSSE Policies

In order to assure a good safety pattern of work that reduces risk of labour accidents, fire explosion, disease spread by lack of hygiene and pollution, Petron Drilling Fields Services Limited has instituted a safety policy. 

The aim of this manual is to alert all those operating on job site to improve worker’s health, safety and environmental conditions. The manual also defines the responsibilities of HSES officers and obligation of workers. It is however approved by the Management of Petron Drilling Fields Services Limited and it is according to National and International Standards.  Every staff must read, understand and adhere strictly to Petron Drilling Fields Services Limited policies regarding HSSE. The employee must plan and perform his day’s work in accordance to these policies. An activity has to be suspended when the employee believes that it cannot be carried our in accordance with the policy and must report such activity to his immediate supervisor or sectional head.

HSSE Objectives 

  • To uphold the pursuance of HSSE awareness by all Petron Drilling Fields Services Limited A bold step has been taken to sustain HSSE meetings and safety training of all level of workers and interchange of safety ideas and experiences that will uplift HSSE awareness.
  • To conduct our activities in such a manner that will reduce accidents and situations, which have potentials to cause injury to personnel and /or damage to equipment and materials.
  • To suspend all activities identified as unhealthy, unsafe or environmentally destructive until acceptable solutions are found.
  • To ensure medical fitness of our staff for the task they are undertaking; strict adherence to company’s Drug and Alcohol Policy will be enforced. No staff will be allowed to work without prior certificate of medical fitness. 
  • To make health, safety and environment an integral part of Petron Drilling Fields Services Limited.
  • To put in place, adequate security, for the life and properties of our personnel and properties.

                   

Labour & Community Relations

All problems envisaged are treated in our company’s CASHES policies and guidelines are detailed in our CASHES manual

We intend to adopt the two systems and approaches in our labour relationships and community development approach.

Maintenance of cordial community relationship sometimes warrants the need to subcontract craft labour on some of our sites to adequately employ/hire our personnel directly.  Nonetheless, we formulate and cope with community affairs management, as they arise.

The company maintains a comprehensive and proactive Community Relations Policies and Guidelines designed to cater for potential volatile and non-volatile project site as envisaged in environs for the project site, while we nonetheless considers that the environment is assumed conducive.

At PETRON, we continue to make health, safety and environmental protection our highest priority. And even though our performance over the past ten years in each of these areas has improved to the point where we far surpass industry averages, we will not be satisfied until we achieve a zero incidence rate.

Industry statistics nationwide reveal that for every 10,000 unsafe acts there are 1,000 near misses or incidents that require first aid; 100 restricted work cases or cases that require medical treatment only; 10 lost-time accidents; and ultimately, one fatality. This broad-base of minor incidences statistically converging to an apex of the most severe incidence is what is commonly known in the industry as the safety pyramid.

We are focused on changing the geometry of this pyramid and we are doing it at the grass-roots level by developing a culture that focuses on eliminating unsafe acts, the base on which the pyramid is built. The key to success in this effort is greater management commitment at every level and accountability up and down the line. It is dependent on establishing standards, ensuring that the standards are understood by every employee, and installing a system that requires compliance.

PETRON has developed a system designed to push safety to new lows in terms of the number of unsafe acts committed on our rigs each day. The cornerstones of this system are:

POLICY RETENTION: For several years, PETRON has steadily improved its safety performance by enacting a series of safety policies and procedures. Many of these have been very effective, including the utilization of the DuPont Stop Card Program and Job Safety Analysis (JSA’s). We will continue to implement these successful programs, while de-emphasizing those that have proven to be less effective.

ADVANCED SAFETY AUDITS: No safety program can be completely successful without a method of measuring progress. The Advanced Safety Audit is conducted at the rig site where employees are observed in their actual work environment. Unsafe acts and conditions are recognized and addressed in a constructive situation where the employee is encouraged to identify, analyze and suggest appropriate corrective actions. A steady decline in the number of unsafe situations being observed indicates progress is being made.

HSE LEADERSHIP: To be successful, a safety program must eschew management involvement in favor of management commitment. The Nabors HSE Leadership Program develops that commitment in a comprehensive, classroom environment that equips all levels of management, down to the first supervisory level, to recognize and address the issues that influence safety. Then managers are required to actually visit the rigs in their area to hone their skills in real-life situations.