OREANDA-NEWS. July 29, 2011. SOCAR management held a session on issues of labour protection and safety of work at its enterprises in the first half of the year. Opening the meeting, SOCAR President Mr. Rovnag Abdullayev spoke about works on improvement of safe working conditions, elimination of accidents at the enterprises of SOCAR. He claimed of the necessity to continue work on ensuring labour safety. He pointed out that deputy heads for safety had been appointed at seven enterprises in 2011.

Speaking at the meeting, Mr. Yashar Ahmadov, head of the Department of Occupational Health & Safety, said that in recent years the Company conducted 146 checks and revealed over 4,500 gaps and shortcomings. Heads of departments and enterprises gathered for meeting seven times to remove them. Analysis of the accidents shows that reasons of their happening resulted form unreadiness of working places before starting operations, and violence of safety regulations.