Our health, safety and environment activities are oriented by a policy that includes principles and guidelines that conduct and support the decision-making process and the behavior of our entire workforce.
Get to know the 5 principles of the policy:
HSE IS VALUE
We commit ourselves to taking care of each other in the workplace and, in doubt, stop and seek help.
Our zero-fatality and zero-leak ambitions, sustainability goals and commitments, including climate change requirements are integrated into the company's strategy and decision-making processes.
RESPECT FOR LIFE
By caring for people and promoting an ethical, healthy and safe environment, we are committed to:
•A fair culture of HSE based on mutual trust, transparency and learning from experience.
•Encouraging people's protagonism in the continuous improvement of safety, health and well-being.
RISK-BASED MANAGEMENT
We seek excellence in process security at all stages of the life cycle of our assets, committing ourselves to:
•Continuous learning and innovation aimed at proactively reducing risks.
•Emergency preparedness to ensure the speed and effectiveness of the response.
SUSTAINABILITY IN BUSINESS
We conduct our business and activities with environmental responsibility contributing to sustainable development, committing ourselves to:
•The ambition of carbon neutrality of our operations.
•The prevention and mitigation of environmental impacts of activities and products and with the improvement of the environmental quality where we operate.
EXCELLENCE AND TRANSPARENCY IN PERFORMANCE
We reaffirm our commitment to:
•The sharing of lessons learned and best practices of SMS with the chain of suppliers and partners, strengthening the position of excellence in our HSE performance.
•Compliance with legislation, standards, patterns and commitments in which the company is a signatory, communicating transparent and correct information.
Listed below are the 15 Corporate SMS Guidelines:
Integrate health, safety and environment to the company's strategy, reaffirming the workforce's commitment to the HSE Policy and ensuring the resources necessary for the pursuit of excellence in HSE.
Maintain throughout the life cycle of the company's activities its compliance with current regulatory legislation on health, safety and environment.
Identify, evaluate and manage the risks inherent to the company's activities, in order to avoid the occurrence of accidents and/or ensure the minimization of its effects.
Seek the best health, safety and environment practices in investments and disinvestments.
Perform the company's operations according to established procedures using facilities and equipment in a position to ensure compliance with health, safety and environment requirements.
Manage changes, temporary or permanent, aiming at mitigating health, safety and environment risks arising from its implementation.
Adopt appropriate HSE requirements in the goods and services contracts and foster the proactive work of your workforce with partners and supply chain members to ensure that they are aligned with our values, ambitions, goals, commitments and performance of HSE and climate change.
Promote the training, education and awareness of its employees in a continuous way, providing a systemic and integrated view of technical aspects and human factors, strengthening organizational learning, performance and culture of HSE.
Ensure that information related to health, safety and environment is intact and available, which allows to expedite decision making from reliable analytical data and generate knowledge and value for the company.
Communicate information related to health, safety and environment with clarity, precision and diligence, in order to attend the different stakeholders.
Predict and face emergency situations quickly and effectively aiming at the maximum reduction of their effects.
Mitigate risks and impacts of health, safety and environment for neighboring communities, in the territories where it operates, keeping them engaged and informed about the company's activities.
Analyze, investigate and document the accidents and incidents resulting from the company's activities, in order to privilege learning with experience, improving preventive and mitigating safeguards, aiming to make the company increasingly resilient.
Manage risks and reduce the health, safety and environment impacts of our products in production, marketing and use considering their life cycle.
Implement and maintain mechanisms for measuring, evaluating and improving performance in health, safety and environment throughout the company, in order to ensure its continuous improvement.