Health and Safety

Health and safety

Safety remains of paramount importance within Total. We believe in a strong safety culture through leadership from management and supervisors, workforce involvement, personal responsibility, openness and cooperation. As part of a worldwide initiative, we launched our 12 ‘Golden Rules’ for safety at work across our UK businesses in 2010.

Reducing Risk in the workplace

TOTAL E&P UK (TEPUK)

Lindsey Oil Refinery (LOR)

TOTAL UK

TOTAL Gas & Power

Cray Valley

Bostik

TOTAL Petrochemicals

The Golden Rules

The Golden Rules are designed to raise awareness of the importance of adopting the appropriate procedures and working practices that are at the heart of our safety culture. The intention is for everyone to take ownership of the rules and apply them everywhere, at all times. Strict compliance is essential because safety is everybody’s business and, to be effective, there must be education, discipline and the courage to step in as soon as something is seen to be wrong.

These rules, based on experience, feedback and lessons learned, encompass the situations most frequently encountered whether offshore, at our refinery, chemical plant or part of our transport activities. They must be adhered to before starting any work and are mandatory for all employees, contractors and visitors.

The principles of dynamic risk assessment must be applied by everybody concerned. All persons must understand that their acts/behaviours may create risk for themselves, colleagues, facilities or the environment. All incidents, near misses and downgraded situations must be reported as soon as possible and, if compliance with the Golden Rules is not possible or anybody is not sure of how to proceed, then work must stop and the matter must be reported immediately.

LTIs

Total Gas & Power, Total Petrochemicals UK, Pamargan and Stop-choc recorded zero LTIs in 2010. Cray Valley confirmed 1,509 days without an LTI. Pamargan introduced a system of reporting and investigating HIPO’s. Stop-choc undertook a continuous review of safety training, processes and asset integrity to achieve the highest standards and an internal HSE committee was set up.

The increase in LTIs overall across UK businesses was due largely to an incident at LOR. LTI frequency rates at our other larger businesses, however, continue to show a downward trend (somewith significantly increased activity in recent years).

	TOTAL in the UK Environment and Social Report 2010 Download pdf version
	TOTAL Environment and Society Report 2010 Download pdf version
	Available in 24 languages, the Code of Conduct continues to be deployed Download pdf version
	Safety, Environment Health Safety Environment Quality Charter Download pdf version

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