Safe and efficient operations is our first priority. Our technical safety condition monitoring and the safety behaviour programme have been widely recognized.
Accidents and particular major accidents pose a great threat to our business. Basic understanding of risks and the risk influencing factors are vital for performing safe operations.
The total numbers of serious HSE incidents in our operations were held stable in 2007. The numbers of serious gas leakages on our installations and plants have declined slightly in 2007.
StatoilHydro had three fatal accidents in 2007. In connection with mooring of the LPG vessel "Goodwood" at Mongstad harbour, two members of the crew were hit by a towing line and seriously injured. One of them died in the hospital the same day. A member of the winch crew on the crane barge "Saipem 7000" was hit by a hydraulic hose, fell overboard and drowned at the Tordis Field. A truck driver died after a traffic accident in Sweden.
We firmly believe that all accidents can be prevented and our goal remains zero harm. We place a high focus on continually striving for better safety results in all our business.
In striving for improving our results we are proud to say that our safety behaviour programme now includes 35,000 persons. The fundamental aspects of this programme are the five human safety barriers: correct priorities, compliance with requirements, open dialogue, continuous risk assessment and caring about each other.
In our work to reduce the risk, we use a system for monitoring technical safety conditions. Together with daily focus on safe performance of work operations, this make us able to systematically work day-by-day to reduce the risk for major accidents. Although we did not achieve our 2007 HSE target we feel that we are on the correct track and will seek improvements in the years to come.
