Our Commitment to Health, Safety and the Environment
KPC Kuwait Petroleum Corporation directs petroleum exploration and production, refining & marketing, petrochemicals and transportation towards a holistic and sustainable outcome. Our commitment is to balance the professional and optimal exploitation of Kuwait’s hydrocarbon resources with proactive management of the health and safety of our employees, contractors and community and care for the environment.
We believe that good HSE performance is an integral part of efficient and profitable business.
Policy:
Our Policy on HSE is this Commitment and is an integral part of our overall business policy. Our HSE Commitment must be read in conjunction with our HSE Vision and Mission. As KPC and Subsidiaries our businesses are conducted according to best industry practices, both in terms of results and effectiveness to ensure, the safety and health of our employees, contractors, suppliers, customers and the community and to ensure the protection of the environment. As we do this, we aim to reduce the overall environmental cost of our operation and conserve resources for future generations.
Management systems:
KPC maintains and continuously improves a comprehensive HSE Management System which is a systematic and fully documented approach to managing health, safety and the
protection of the environment.
KPC manages HSE as a critical business activity, sets targets for improvement and measures, appraises and reports performance. Our goals drive us to the highest standards of excellence.
The KPC HSE Management System Elements are the minimum requirements essential to successfully manage hazards in health, safety and environment. All KPC personnel, contractors and visitors must follow these HSE systems.
A cyclic, inter-related system of steps ensures continuous improvement in the KPC HSE Management System supported by visibly better performance.
KPC carries out internal and external audits of its HSE Systems in action, to measure performance, to challenge and enable change, to innovate and improve our performance in line with internationally accepted best practice.
All KPC Subsidiaries must follow the KPC HSE Management System and must have documented systems and procedures in place in their own HSE Management System. They are accountable for HSE performance and must maintain a declaration of conformance supported by a signpost document to the KPC HSE Management System and its goals.
Employee involvement:
Leadership accountability for performance is fundamental to our HSE system.
Management at all levels must demonstrate and encourage commitment to HSE to create and sustain an interdependent company HSE culture where HSE is the responsibility of all employees.
We inform employees though ongoing dialogue about all aspects of operations that could materially affect them, our HSE performance and progress to our goals.
We trust, respect and support each other, promoting teamwork to successfully achieve our objectives.
We foster a motivating workplace for all our employees through appropriate training, accountability, empowerment and fair treatment supported by a reward and recognition system.
Resource conservation:
KPC is committed to HSE Performance as a critical priority.
KPC actively seeks to be recognised world-wide in our achievement of health, safety and environmental performance. Our main themes of activity are:
We believe that injuries, incidents of all types and occupational illnesses must be prevented. Our goals are to achieve zero injuries, illnesses and impacts on the environment.
We believe that off-the-job safety is a critical indicator of safety behaviour and should be managed.
We maintain a comprehensive inventory of environmental aspects. We use this inventory to drive our priorities to reduce emissions to zero, selecting those that have the greatest risk to health or the environment for precedence. Our preferred process is to solve environmental issues at source. When necessary we use appropriate treatment and /or recycling to consistently reduce and/or mitigate discharges. We dispose of unavoidable waste safely and responsibly.
We continuously demonstrate our respect for the natural environment and work to protect it.
We reduce the use of fuel and all raw materials to conserve natural resources and impact on the atmosphere.
We consider our sites to be a part of the natural heritage and seek to enhance them as sanctuaries for biodiversity and wildlife.
Product and Distribution Management:
We use every opportunity to continuously improve our processes and products.
We work with our suppliers and customers through communication and relationship building to ensure that the total hazard is reduced and the impact of our products, the product value chain and life cycle is continuously improved and in line with best practice.
Each new product and process is assessed for its total hazard and impact and acceptability to the environment and community.
Stakeholder engagement:
We publish regular statistics on our performance in HSE to promote an open dialogue with our stakeholders.
We provide discussion opportunities for our stakeholders to better understand, contribute to and guide our effort.
We act as a responsible member of society and take a positive interest in fostering constructive relations with the communities in which we operate.
We are honest and fair in all our dealings and we demonstrate the highest standard of ethics in conducting all internal and external business.
We are transparent in communication with others and ourselves.
Process safety:
Management of hazard is the foundation of the HSE MS Elements and is a continuous process.
We reduce the total hazard of our operation by implementing the recommendations of our investigations and studies.
All new processes are designed to increase safety margins and achieve inherent process safety management.
Emergency response plans must be maintained and practised to protect workers, customers, public and the environment in the event of an incident.
We manage the security of our sites to support the goals of our HSE Management System.
Our reputation is vital to our business success and is supported by this Commitment.
Past, present and future:
We correct the results of historical practices that have adverse impacts on the environment.
Legislators and regulators:
We comply with all applicable industry standards and governmental regulations.
We build partnerships with the authorities of the communities in which we live to develop ever better policies aimed at improving safety, health and the environment.