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Industrial safety & health
Risk management-Comprehensive implementation of safety regulations
Petroleum products and natural gas are highly flammable substances. In handling them, CPC places heavy emphasis on industrial and health safety, as well as on fire prevention, in order to maintain continuity in operations, and prevent harm to employees, local communities and properties of local people. Apart from compliance with Taiwan’s relevant laws and regulations, CPC has also drafted – and strictly enforces – its own safety and loss prevention protocols by reference to those of the advanced countries of the Europe, USA and Japan. Such protocols have been suitably adapted to reflect local conditions and operational characteristics.
Safety disciplines and priority-Safety management get first
Industrial safety is the key for the continued sustainable future of CPC. To achieve the goal of 100% industrial safety, zero accidents; CPC has constantly and actively strengthened its safety culture through implementation of a policy based on safety disciplines “All staff safety awareness, Risk management and Health care”. CPC’s industrial safety performance has been recognized by the society; it has also often been a recipient of the annual Excellence in Organizational and Personnel Promotion of Occupational Safety and Health awards from Taiwan’s Ministry of Labor.
Key points in CPC's industrial safety & health policies
In line with its emphasis on a culture of industrial safety, CPC is putting particular effort into the following focal points. The company has continued raising awareness of issues to both its employees and external vendors in the interest of creating a safe and comfortable working environment with collective efforts.
• Implementation of the Taiwan Occupational Safety and Health Management System (TOSHMS) and continuous improvement with respect to its operational environment. In 2020, all 34 CPC units received ISO45001 reversion verification, aligning with international norms.
• To reinforce industrial safety practice mandates, CPC established “inspection and auditing teams” to go to construction sites for non-scheduled on-site inspection and auditing, and set “Management procedures for safety and health of contractors” and “Guidance on safe work permit”. We also established contractor evaluation system in order to urge the implementation of self-management and reduce occupational accidents among their employees on CPC sites.
• In conjunction with the implementation of occupational safety laws, conducting periodic reviews of industrial safety and health rules as well as continuous reviewing and revising standard operating procedures.
• Strengthening industrial health management protocols, scheduling regular employee health checkups, analyzing and tracking those health checkup results, promoting a healthy lifestyle and emphasizing the importance of employees’ mental health.
• Implementing risk management and process safety management (PSM) and establishing equipment safety management processes – periodic, regular thorough inspection of oil tanks and pipelines and the installation of monitors and leak detection systems along their extended sections.
• Strengthening fire prevention and response capabilities, organizing local joint emergency response teams, ensuring that the manpower, facilities and emergency response and rescue gear used by all units are mutually supportive in application, so as to minimize losses due to fire and other disasters.
• Implementing on-site safety inspections with graded results, continuously improving system, equipment and implementation through observation of their preparedness and raising awareness of the importance of industrial safety disciplines.
• Empowering industrial safety inspections team with “management by walking around” by senior managers, professional industrial safety inspections, pre-operational industrial safety inspections of new and renovated workplaces, all deficiencies discovered are tracked through the information system until remedial improvements have been completed.
• Planning and execution of safety and health training and awareness programs, developing and providing online study courses and establishing an industrial safety test-question database, and compiling and publishing industrial accident case study-based teaching materials.
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