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Personal and process safety

Our goal is zero fatalities. We want all our 108,000 staff and the approximately 300,000 contractors working at our operations to return home from work safely every day.

Making progress towards that goal depends on having safe processes and a strong safety culture. This starts with applying common standards and systems. Our Business Principles require all Shell companies, contractors and the joint ventures we control to operate in line with our HSE standard. This means managing HSE risks in a systematic way, having major facilities certified to an external environmental standard, like ISO 14001, and having emergency response plans in place, and regularly tested, to minimise damage in the event of an incident. We investigate serious incidents and near misses. The lessons we learn from these investigations are shared with other parts of our business to help prevent similar incidents happening again.

Safety performance Safety performance
Progress towards our goal of zero fatalities. Reducing injury rates of staff and contractors.
Changing behaviour Changing behaviour
Hearts and Minds and Golden Rules.
Driver safety programmes Driver safety programmes
Proactive safety programmes for our professional drivers.
Process safety Process safety
Making sure our facilities are safely designed, operated and maintained.
Protecting our people Protecting our people
The importance of security measures for protecting staff and contractors.
Case studies Case studies
Brent Bravo. Preparing for hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico

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