Responsibility Health, Safety & Environment
Safe operations, the health and safety of our people and the protection of the environment are the highest priorities within Wintershall Noordzee and are regarded as our “license to operate”. Our HSE performance plays an essential role in our competitiveness. Good HSE performance secures our reputation as a reliable operator and partner. It also contributes to our company objectives of sustainable growth and operational excellence.
To achieve this, HSE forms an integral part in all our activities. Wintershall Noordzee has developed a long-term HSE strategy setting the standard for all our operations. Everyone within the company, ranging from senior management to each individual employee, has a responsibility to commit and contribute to this strategy. The HSE professionals within our company will continue to set the standards and work with colleagues, authorities and other stakeholders to ensure the right focus. It is our opinion that the key to excellent performance is ownership and commitment to HSE from all of us.
Our Vision We prevent harm to people, the environment, our assets and reputation by controlling our barriers and promoting a strong HSE culture.
‘We’ means everyone at Wintershall Noordzee and beyond. We can only accomplish this objective if we act together with our partners, contractors and suppliers. HSE performance is the end result of what we plan and how we work.
Our vision as stated above is always our focus. It is also a direct reference to our commitment for continuous improvement. We identify and reinforce good practices and implement measures to prevent recurrence of substandard processes and results. By working together internally as a team, by joining efforts with peers in the industry and by sharing experience, knowledge and knowhow, we aim to be best-in-class when it comes to safety performance.
Our Mission The six key elements
Six key elements, each crucial to being a responsible operator, define our Mission at Wintershall Noordzee. For each element, we have a clear expectation of what we want to do:
Major Accident Prevention
Implementing and maintaining robust barriers to prevent accidents from occurring and mitigate escalation in case of incidents.
Safe & Healthy Workplace
Providing a safe and healthy working environment for all of those working on our behalf.
Environmental Protection
Minimizing our environmental impact and optimizing our energy efficiency in all our operations.
Security
Identifying, understanding and acting to reduce security risks to protect our colleagues, our company and ensure business continuity.
Managing Risk
Increasing competence, risk, opportunity awareness and understanding at every level of the business.
Acting Together
Encouraging the entire organization to co-operate across operational structures and across geographical boundaries to achieve a strong HSE culture and meet our HSE goals.
Our Values We strongly believe that achieving our Mission and Vision requires applying our CORE values.
The HSE-circle of Wintershall Noordzee
Responsible business behavior is the prerequisite for long-term success. We have defined six key elements that are crucial for our business.
Creative
To find innovative and sustainable HSE solutions, Wintershall Noordzee encourages the pursuit of bold ideas. We bring together our know-how in many different fields and build partnerships to develop creative, value-adding solutions.
Open
At Wintershall Noordzee we value diversity – in people, opinions and experience. That is why we foster dialogue based on honesty, respect and mutual trust. We continuously explore our talents and capabilities.
Responsible
We act responsibly as an integral part of society, strictly adhering to our compliance standards and we never compromise on HSE.
Entrepreneurial
We all contribute to the success of Wintershall Noordzee, as individuals and as a team. We constantly work to improve our HSE performance. We will succeed in this because we take ownership and embrace accountability for our work.
Environmental protection & sustainability
Protecting the environment is at the heart of our business. That is why we are committed to minimizing environmental impact and optimizing our energy efficiency in all our operations and to act socially responsible every step of the way. To achieve this, we have implemented ISO standards, we monitor and track our impact, and manage our health, safety and environmental systems according to the plan-do-check-act cycle. Furthermore, we employ different tools including risk analysis, monitoring programs, reviews and audits, as well as evaluations and surveys. As technology advances and new insights are gained, we will adapt our way of working to improve even further on our sustainability footprint.
Ethics & Compliance
Wintershall Noordzee is committed to acting in ways consistent with what society and individuals consider good values. We consider this ethical way of behaving a demonstration of respect for key moral principles that include honesty, fairness, equality, dignity, diversity and human rights. Therefore, we continuously invest in training to ensure everyone within Wintershall Noordzee behaves the way we expect them to behave when being part of a high performing organization.
Each employee of Wintershall Noordzee must act within the boundaries of existing law and internal company regulations. To avoid any misbehavior, they must follow the Compliance Program meant to safeguard their continuous attention to and awareness of our company values, as well as their compliance with the law in their daily work.
Our Code of Conduct is binding for all our employees. As a company, we are committed to high standards of legal compliance as well as business ethics. We therefore expect all our employees to adhere to these standards. We are, after all, ambassadors for the company and as such our behavior is of the utmost importance.