Industry recognizes that achieving world-class safety performance in a construction environment is a significant challenge thatrequires senior management commitment and the formation of effective partnerships between owners and contractors to identify opportunities for improving both safety culture and safety management systems.
On the Kizomba A and B projects, ExxonMobil partnered with its key contractors to identify drivers, issues, and challenges and mapped out a plan to systematically improve safety performance. This approach increased safety ownership and the likelihood that improvements would become an integral part of the contractor's processes, systems, and culture. This approach lso enabled the contractors to take advantage of the significant safety resources and experience available within ExxonMobil.
To promote the joint identification of specific improvement areas, we developed and introduced an innovative tool called a ‘Cold Eyes Review’ (CER). This process facilitates the introduction and utilization of Job Safety Analyses (JSAs), Safety Steering Teams (SSTs), leading indicators, tiered safety recognition programs, and a number of other focused safety initiatives.
This partnership approach yielded significant improvements in safety that resulted in a Lost Time Incident Rate (LTIR) of 0.12 and a Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) of 0.63 for the Kizomba A and B projects combined and positioned our future projects for higher levels of success.
ExxonMobil's vision is that 'Nobody Gets Hurt. We believe that every employee and contractor deserves to start and finish the day unencumbered by injury or illness. Through targeted initiatives, contract workers at our construction sites and in contractor's fabrication yards have the opportunity to experience these safety values and expectations.
Our vision of an injury- and illness-free workplace is reflected in EMDC's Safety Credo. The Safety Credo was developed in 1998 by EMDC's leadership team to establish a vision that would be accepted and embraced by Company employees and contractors and to lead the Company to higher levels of safety performance. The Credo consists of two expectations and several beliefs.
