Nothing is more important than the health and safety of our people. The acquisition of the Wintershall Dea assets brought significant organisational change, and I am proud that we accomplished this safely and with minimal disruption.
Occupational health and safety
As a responsible oil and gas operator, health and safety are at the core of what we do. Ensuring the safety of everyone working for Harbour starts with setting the right tone at the top. We do this by establishing clear leadership and performance expectations, for example by including safety targets in our company-wide performance scorecard, and tying them to annual bonus payments for all employees, including executive directors.
Ensuring safety does not end there. We rigorously implement our policies, standards and procedures, and keep them front and centre by training all our staff, raising awareness of relevant initiatives and sharing information around how to stay safe on the job.
Read more about our approach to safety in our Annual Report.
Process safety
We strive to achieve process safety excellence and work continually to reduce the likelihood and potential severity of process safety events.
Our process safety commitments and requirements are set out in our Corporate Major Accident Prevention Policy. We report and investigate all process safety events and identify ways to prevent recurrence, in line with the International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (IOGP) Tier 1 and Tier 2 definitions.
Our goal is to achieve process safety excellence across all our operations. We investigate all process safety incidents and near misses regardless of severity and share learnings. For example, we distribute safety bulletins and host monthly global safety team meetings attended by onshore and offshore personnel. We give particular focus to ensuring we learn from high potential events and share the investigation findings and learnings from these events with our Leadership Team and the Board’s HSES Committee.
Emergency preparedness
Harbour Energy operates a complex, global asset base that requires us to maintain emergency-preparedness processes, effective response equipment and experienced staff available to respond when needed.
Our crisis management team, comprising members of our leadership team and subject matter experts, is ready to manage incidents and emerging risks including those related to cyber security. This team retains the capability to respond to incidents across multiple locations using our crisis management information system. We operate a four-tier incident management system to manage operational, tactical and strategic issues.
We have detailed oil spill emergency plans in place for all our operated assets. We are members of Oil Spill Response Limited, which provides access to a worldwide network of oil spill response equipment and expertise.
CEO Safety Award
Open to individuals or teams, employees and contractors, the CEO Safety Awards recognise outstanding contributions to safety across our global operations. Colleagues can nominate individuals or teams for demonstrating good safety outcomes – from extended injury-free performance on an asset, to personal interventions to stop work and raise safety concerns, to the introduction of new ways of working or a change in facility design to reduce safety risks. The winners and finalists in the team and individual categories each choose a charity to receive a cash donation from Harbour. A total of 114 nominations were submitted for the 2024 awards.
