Our safety behaviour programme now embraces 35,000 people.
A basic element in this campaign is five human safety barriers: correct priorities, compliance with requirements, open dialogue, continuous risk assessment and caring about each other.
The number of serious HSE incidents in our operations remained stable in 2007, with a slight reduction in serious gas leaks on our installations and at our plants. We will maintain and further develop our existing efforts to reduce the risk of major accidents.
Statoil established a system for monitoring the technical safety of its plants, and a similar system was adopted by Hydro a couple of years later.
Focusing on issues in all relevant business processes allows us to work systematically day-by-day to reduce the risk of major accidents.
Unfortunately, we and our contractors nevertheless experienced three fatalities in 2007. One person died in an accident with a road tanker, a second on a liquefied petroleum gas carrier during berthing, and the third after falling overboard from a heavy-lift vessel while it was installing a subsea template.
