Social responsibility - health and safety

One of the most important areas of work regarding social responsibility is health and safety for employees and contractors as well as minimizing the risk of accidents and incidents. PA Resources is actively pursuing preventive initiatives with the aim of safeguarding our employees and subcontractors from work-related injuries,diseases and workplace accidents.

The key tools comprise:

  • Health and safety assessments of production facilities and prior to drilling and seismic surveys
  • Education and training of employees
  • Maintenance of supporting documentation, such as policies, guidelines,procedures and checklists
  • Inspections and reviews of safety equipment, work practices and procedures
  • Measurement and follow-up of workplace-related injuries and incidents as well as the health of our employees.

Practicle exemple

For an example of PA Resources’ work with health, safety and environment, read more about the work during the Danish drilling campaign in 2011 in the Annual Report 2011 page 19 »

Incidents and accidents

PA Resources has measured health and safety statistics since 2006. At the end of 2009, a more comprehensive reporting system was implemented. Accordingly, comparable statistics are only available for the last two years.

During the past five years, no work-related fatalities or serious incidents or accidents have occurred at any production facility where PA Resources is the operator. This trend continued in 2011. Despite an increase in the total number of work hours at our production facilities, no incidents occurred that resulted in lost time incidents (LTIs) or recordable injuries. However, two accidents that resulted in LTIs were reported on non-operated licences in Equatorial Guinea.

Health and safety*
   Unit 2011 2010
Total number of work hours

PA Resources as operator**

 Hours 437,853 335,200
  Other operators
 Hours 3,557,280 3,306,970
Fatalities
PA Resources as operator** Number
 0  0
  Other operators Number 0 0
Lost time incidents
(LTI)
 PA Resources as operator** Number 0  2
  Other operators Number 2 1

Total recordable injury
rate (TRIR) 1)

 PA Resources as operator** Number/million
work hours		 0.0  5.9
  Other operators  Number/million
work hours		 2.0 2.4

* Total at all production facilities and licences where PA Resources owns shares.
** Employees and subcontractors of PA Resources.
1) Number of accidents per 1,000,000 work hours. Accidents include fatalities, cases with limited or lost work hours and cases requiring medical treatment.