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10 projects win Adnoc’s HSE award

ABU DHABI — The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) has honoured the 10 winning projects of the 2004 Adnoc Health, Safety and Environment Award (HSE 2004).

A grand award ceremony was held on Sunday at Sheraton Hotel, Abu Dhabi.

The 2004 HSE Awards has seen the submission of 183 entries from 16 companies. Starting in 1997, Adnoc HSE Awards is designed to recognised outstanding achievements by employees and affiliated contractors of the Adnoc Group companies in the areas of health, safety and environment.

The awards provide tangible evidence of Adnoc's commitment to HSE and is a key clement in the ongoing initiative to promote HSE amongst company employees and contractors. The awards programme motivates companies, teams and individuals to investigate and initiate activities that are beneficial to the health and safety of employees and community, and the protection of the environment in which they operate.

Yousef Omair bin Yousef, Secretary-General of the Supreme Petroleum Council and Adnoc CEO, said the Company's HSE performance in 2004 had exceeded our expectations on most issues and is a further demonstration that we take HSE seriously.

In a speech delivered on his behalf by Abdullah Nasser Al Suwaidi, SPC Member, Adnoc Deputy CEO and Exploration and Production Director, Yousef said Adnoc's corporate lost time injury frequency (LTIF) of 0.33 injuries per million man-hours worked is the lowest we have ever achieved.

This is significantly better than the industry average and it will be challenging to improve on this in future years. Three of our companies did not have any lost time injuries in 2004.

"Tragically, we experienced four fatalities in 2004 and this is unacceptable. Group companies must further strive to generate a safety culture and communicate to all employees and contractors that shortcuts and unsafe behaviour will not be tolerated. We must not rest until we have achieved our goal of zero work-related injuries," he said.

He said a number of new HSE Codes of Practice were introduced in 2004, in which we adopted international standards and ‘best practice’, tailored to meet Adnoc requirements.

"Good progress was achieved with a number of initiatives that, albeit with much broader objectives than HSE only, will have an impact on HSE performance," he said.

Mohammed El Mehairy, EH&SD Manager, said there was a 40 per cent increase in entries this year over 2003, due to the enhanced status of the award and the increase in the number of Adnoc contractors competing for the award.