Each industrial facility sets annual measurable targets for improving its performance in terms of Health and Safety. The performance, against set targets, is reviewed on a monthly and annual basis and the relevant report is presented to Management.
Since 2012, amongst other goals, individual safety goals have also been set for all senior and middle managers in the industrial facilities. In addition, HELLENIC PETROLEUM participates in the European Organization CONCAWE’s annually conducted survey and benchmarking for accidents, through which the Group keeps abreast of international developments in the establishment of additional indicators to measure safety performance.
Over a total of 9,732,875 man hours worked, 25 lost workday injuries occurred during the course of 2015, concerning personnel and contractors either employed in the Group’s refineries/chemical plants or by the EKO/HELLENIC FUELS (HF) marketing companies.
Number of Incidents based on CONCAWE’s definitions
| FACILITY |
HELPE (ΒΕΑ, ΒΕΕ, ΒΕΘ) |
HEADQUARTERS |
EKO & HF |
DIAXON |
ASPROFOS |
HP CYPRUS |
OKTA |
EKO SERBIA |
EKO BULGARIA |
JUGOPETROL |
| Lost Workday injuries or LWIs (M/F) |
19(14/5) |
1(0/1) |
5(4/1) |
1(1/0) |
0 |
0 |
5(4/1) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Lost Workday injuries (employee/contractors) |
10/9 |
0/1 |
0/5 |
0/1 |
0 |
0 |
5/0 |
-- |
0 |
-- |
| Fatalities (M/F) |
4(4/0) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Medical Treatment-Cases or MTC1 (M/F) |
11(10/1) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Restricted Workday injuries or RWI (M/F) |
3(3/0) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| LWIF (M/F) |
2.69* |
1.79(0/1.79) |
8.95(7.16/1.79) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
6.72(5.38/1.34) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| LWIS (M/F) |
28.6* |
20(0/20) |
8.2(15/3) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
15.4(17.4/0.14) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| All injury frequency or AIF (M/F) |
5.3* |
1.79(0/1.79) |
8.95(7.16/1.79) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
6.72(5.38/1.34) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Occupational diseases rate (/106 hours) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Absenteeism rate1 (%) (M/F) |
* |
-- |
1.67(0.91/3.42) |
4.72(2.76/2.05) |
-- |
-- |
(1.19/0.82) |
(0.63/2.14) |
-- |
-- |
1 Cases concerning first aid are not included.
2 Absences due to every type of incapacity are included (illness, accident, etc).
*These indices are analytically presented in Appendix I, indicator G4-LA6.
Charts below present the evolution of the most significant incident indicators in the Group’s facilities, compared with the corresponding CONCAWE indices during last five years.
54% of lost workday accidents concerning permanent employees were due to slips, trips and falls on the same level.
LWIF was reduced per 8% in 2015 compared to 2014, but due to general maintenance (shut down) on May in Aspropirgos refinery and the accident that occurred, indicators AIF and LWIS presented a rise:
As the European statistics for 2015 usually will not be issued till September of the next year, they were not available at the time this report was released.
In the context of the joint efforts of the European refineries to introduce specific indicators concerning process safety, HELLENIC PETROLEUM was one of the first companies (globally) who adopted and monitored the new process safety performance indicators, in accordance with CONCAWE’s instructions and in line with API RP 754, 2010 (Recommended Practice 754 "Process Safety Performance Indicators for the Refining and Petrochemical Industries"). The relevant data for 2015 is presented in the Table below.
Process Safety Incidents based on CONCAWE’s definitions
| FACILITY |
HELPE (ΒΕΑ, ΒΕΕ, ΒΕΘ) |
EKO & HF |
OKTA |
| Process Safety Event 1 (PSE-1) |
3 |
0 |
0 |
| Process Safety Event 2 (PSE-2) |
19 |
1 |
0 |
| Process Safety Event (PSE) |
22 |
1 |
0 |
| Total PSER index |
3.13 |
0.47 |
0 |
Chart below presents the trend of the total Process Safety Event Rate (PSER) e.g.all process safety incidents per one million man-hours, compared with the CONCAWE’s corresponding index. The index rose in 2015 due to leaks in Elefsina refinery product distribution pipelines, for which an extensive maintenance program was executed. To reduce these indicators all Group’s facilities strive to achieve an annual target of Process Safety Events minimization; with zeroing as the ultimate goal.
