Scope of Report
Message From the Chairman
Our Company
2006 Highlights
2006 At A Glance
2006 Performance Data
How We Operate
Review of Operations
Safety Performance
Employee Safety Performance
Employee & Contractor
Safety Performance
Safety Processes
Examples of Safety Programs
Health Management
Product Stewardship
Environmental Performance
Global Workforce
Community & Social Performance
Global Compact Index
GRI & IPIECA/API Index
Verification Statement
Employee Safety Performance
Employee & ContractorSafety Performance
Safety Processes
Examples of Safety Programs
Health Management Product Stewardship
SAFETY PERFORMANCE
We are committed to meeting the highest standards of corporate citizenship by protecting the health and safety of our employees.
EMPLOYEE SAFETY PERFORMANCE
Since 2000 we have made significant improvements in our safety performance, reducing our annual injury rate by over one-half. We had our best safety performance ever recorded in 2006 and for the second consecutive year had no work related fatalities. In 2006 we achieved an overall reduction in our employee recordable incident rate of 13% compared to 2005. We did not achieve our aggressive target for reduction of employee recordable injuries. The year end recordable rate was 1.73 compared to a target rate of 1.60
.We also reduced our lost work time and restricted duty incident rate by 21% between 2005 and 2006. In 2006 we modified our data management systems to delineate lost time incidents from those resulting in restricted duty. We had a lost time incident rate of 0.80 in 2006.
The majority of our worldwide exploration, production, refinery, terminal and office staff are represented in formal health and safety committees. The nature of our retail operations means that it is difficult to organize and effectively manage such committees. In these instances, we have initiated the role of ‘Safety Captain’ at each retail facility. This Safety Captain’s responsibilities include facilitating safety communications between management and employees.
Hess Corporation faces a number of challenges in attaining our safety objectives:
- Over 60% of our total employees are hourly paid retail employees with notably high turnover rates
- In 2006 for the first time our contractor manhours (28.6 million hrs.) exceeded our employee manhours (22.6 million hrs.)
- Our business is international, in countries where we experience language and cultural barriers
- The increased competition for qualified labor has reduced the experience of the workforce