OREANDA-NEWS. On May 14, 2007 Karachaganak Petroleum Operating B.V. (KPO) has announced that the company’s employees have achieved a new safety record of 10 million man hours without a lost time incident (LTI) and with no recordable injuries, reported the press-centre of  KPO.
In addition, the KPO twelve month LTI frequency rate has dropped to 0,15, representing the lowest level in KPO's history.
Commenting on the event, KPO General Director, Roger Fox said: "These achievements signify the KPO personnel’s commitment to the best safety, health, and environmental practices and standards, and demonstrate our vision of an incident-free workplace”.
“Since the signing of the FPSA in 1997, KPO has been actively promoting a culture where the ownership of safety is shared across the organisation. KPO aims to further improve its HSE performance through compliance with HSE standards, managing workplace risks and the careful planning and monitoring of our operations," added Roger Fox.
This safety record has been made possible through KPO's ongoing investment into raising the awareness of safe working practices for all Karachaganak personnel. As is well known, KPO has been actively implementing a Behavioural Based Safety process, which encourages all employees to observe safe behaviour, provide positive feedback for safe work, and immediately help to correct all safety problems that have been observed. In recent years, KPO has implemented a number of such successful safety initiatives, integrated into an overall HSE Improvement Plan.
Leading industrial indicators, in terms of following safety regulations are not only the prerogative of the KPO staff and management, but for the contractors, suppliers and all those connected with industrial production. This is because safety and environmental standards at Karachaganak are the same for everyone.