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 Occupational health
At the heart of scientific outlook on development is the concept of putting
people first. Putting people first starts with respect for life and healthcare.
We believe that employee health issues are tied immediately up with the morale
of our employees. Physical and mental health is a prerequisite to the competency
of our employees and also to our corporate competitiveness.
Sinopec has always been pursuing integrated HSE management practices and include
the concept of putting people first more in every aspect of our management
activities for perfect mix of occupational health, safety and environmental
protection.
Sinopec renamed its safety and environmental committee as HSE committee, with a
view to placing greater emphasis on occupational health.
Through painstaking efforts made in 2009, Sinopec greatly improved its
occupational health performance by reducing annual incidence of occupational
disease to below 0.01% without any acute poisoning accidents involving three or
more employees throughout the year.
Build up the occupational health system
Sinopec pays much attention to occupational health management and continuously
improves its occupational health management system and technical system.
We formulated and implement several actionable occupational health policies
according to the national laws and regulations and standards, including
“occupational health policy”, “highly toxic substance control policy”, “hydrogen
sulfide control policy”, “employee hearing protection policy”, “radiation
protection policy” and “high temperature work policy”.
In 2009, Sinopec revised its Occupational Health Regulation (2004) to include
more stringent, targeted, actionable and operational requirements concerning
workplace monitoring, occupational health supervision, occupational health file
and occupational health hazard bulletin. Meanwhile, many other company policies
were also revised, including medical insurance policy, occupational health
management performance appraisal policy, Sinopec personal protective equipment
availability policy (provisional) and workplace snail fever prevention policy.
Greater managerial and supervisory efforts for strict compliance with
occupational health policy
Sinopec strictly follows the Occupational Disease Control Law of PR. China and
endeavors to raise employee awareness of occupational health laws and
regulations and how to prevent occupational diseases.
In practice, much attention is given to compliance with occupational health
policy in construction, expansion and reconstruction projects as well as
technology introduction projects to ensure 100% compliance and reporting of any
occupational hazards and to prevent occupational hazards at the root.
We attach great importance to occupational health supervision and inspection. In
2009, during a company-wide safety and environmental inspection, occupational
health officers were assigned to each inspection team and 20 Sinopec companies
were examined according to the newly-revised Occupational Health Performance
Appraisal Policy. Results showed that all companies under examination paid
greater attention to occupational health and further improved their occupational
health performance and that the newly-revised Occupational Health Regulation
(2009) played an important role in guiding these companies towards a higher
level of occupational health performance.
Greater environmental control at workplace to eliminate occupational
hazards at the root
Occupational hazards exist mainly in work environment. Safe work environment
means improved occupational health.
As such, Sinopec focuses its occupational health efforts on work environment
monitoring and control. In 2009, greater efforts were made across the company to
identify and monitor occupational hazards at workplace, bringing 90-plus toxic
substances and 18 kinds of dust under ongoing monitoring. Both the coverage of
workplace occupational hazard monitoring and the measured level of such main
occupational hazards as dust, toxic substances and noise were found to have met
the local and national standards.
We worked harder to identify and eliminate occupational hazards at workplace to
ensure that our workplace meets the occupational health standard and
requirements and that employees are physically healthy.
We emphasize availability and accessibility of personal protective equipment.
According to the availability criteria, all Sinopec companies provide personal
protections to effectively protect operating personnel from dust and toxic
substances, with more than two air filters made available for each production
plant involving handling of toxic substances, portable toxic gas detectors for
workplace where highly toxic substances exist and highly acid and alkali proof
protective clothes for those workers dealing with acid and alkali.
Occupational safety
Occupational safety is the cornerstone of business development. In 2009, we
strictly followed a policy of safety first, prevention foremost and
comprehensive control. We launched an “I Need Safety” campaign to further
identify and eliminate potential safety hazards and strengthen safety management
for our contractors. We made remarkable progress in creating a safe environment
for production operations and business development.
Complete safety policy, strengthen supervision and ensure effective
implementation of safety responsibility system
We revised 13 HSE policies, including accident management and hazard control in
light of the actual work conditions in order to further implement HSE management
system. We strictly enforced the Work Safety Order according to the safety and
environmental supervision policy, organized annual safety and environmental
inspections, implemented ad-hoc supervision programs and evaluated major Sinopec
companies for HSE performance. HSE videoconference was held each quarter to
report accidents, plan for upcoming solutions and make sure that all
participants are fully aware of safety and environmental requirements. This
ensures effective implementation of the HSE responsibility system at all levels.
Well logging division of Sinopec Jiangsu Oilfield pursues zero defect
management in every aspect of safety management
The well logging division of Jiangsu Oilfield endeavors to integrate “I Safe”
concept into every aspect of radioactive substance control process. It follows
the criteria of zero defect, failure, hazard and accident, since radioactive
sources are frequently used for well logging at the oilfield. During 24 years
from 1985 to 2009, no radioactive leak incident occurred.br>
This division takes full responsibility for radioactive substance inspections.
Over 50 inspections are conducted each year to ensure radioactive substances are
kept under control. Meanwhile, safety training programs are frequently conducted
for all employees of the division.
TThis division formulated and refined five policies, including Radiation
Protection Policy, and revised 34 HSE policies, including Radioactive Substance
Control Policy and Well Logging Safety Procedure. Specific, stringent
requirements were laid down for procurement, transport, handling, storage and
use of radioactive sources and blasting tools.
Safety campaign “I Need Safety” remarkably raises employee safety
awareness
Instead of having to comply with the Work Safety Order publicized by Sinopec in
July 2007, Sinopec employees became more proactive to pursue personal safety at
workplace thanks to a company-wide “I Safe” campaign launched in 2009. br>
Sinopec established a leadership team and published an implementation plan for
the campaign. Across the company, over 1,200 safety lectures were delivered,
48,000 emergency drills conducted and over 1,800 safety quizzes held, involving
over 440,000 employee participants.
We solicited contributions from all employees that highlighted safety awareness
and best practices including video clips and articles, which were then prepared
into video discs and pamphlets for distribution to employees at all levels.
Various events and activities were conducted to raise employee safety awareness,
including a Safety Month campaign and wintertime 100-day safety competition.
WWith the “I Safe” campaign, a safety-centered environment was created, and
employees became more aware of the need to always act with safety in mind.
Eliminate potential safety hazards and make installations and facilities
safer to use
We always endeavor to identify and eliminate potential safety hazards by
strictly implementing the HSE policy in every aspect of our operations and
taking preventive measures before anything goes wrong. br>
. Between 2005 and 2009, 8.202 billion RMB (including 1.512 billion RMB in 2009)
invested to eliminate potential safety hazards, thereby significantly raising
the level of intrinsic safety of our installations and facilities.
AA full-time fire safety team was set up at Sinopec and fire safety
infrastructure improved. The fire safety system is a final resort for ensuring
workplace safety in case of industrial accidents. Over the years, we invested
enormously to improve fire safety, including investments in fire safety
personnel, renovations for fire safety facilities and refining fire safety
program. There are currently 12,000 full-time firefighters and over 1,100
firefighting vehicles and gas leakage prevention vehicles in operation across
the company.
An emergency rescue helicopter makes a successful maiden flight at Sinopec’s
Shengli Oilfield
August 1, 2009, an emergency rescue helicopter made its maiden flight at Shengli
Oilfield and safely landed on the parking apron of #3 platform of Offshore
Drilling Company being built at #260 well of Chengbei. This successful maiden
flight meant that air rescue was made possible for the first time from the
offshore drilling platform. This capability represents a critical part of the
three-dimensional emergency rescue system of Shengli Oilfield. It now takes only
ten minutes to reach the #3 drilling platform for rescue operations via the
helicopter, in contrast with two hours waiting time in case of emergency rescue
ship.
Safety control in three critical areas
Oilfields upgrading of well control devices and facilities;
hazard control for off-shore drilling platforms; upgrading and renovation of
electrical installations; low-voltage safety lighting for field operations;
increased availability of safety and emergency facilities; improvement of oil &
gas production, storage and transport devices against fire safety criteria;
emergency vehicles and equipment for fire safety; gas leakage prevention and
emergency rescue; upgrading and renovation of blasting and radioactive substance
storage/transport facilities; configuration of a fail-safe control system for
key equipment; hazard control for fire, explosion and lightning; protection of
oil and gas collection and transmission yards, and provision and upgrading of
special-purpose hazard detection devices.
Refineries electrical and instrumentation system hazards,
lightning and electrostatic protection of large oil tanks; safety of
installations and tank farms, fire safety system hazards (water and roads);
upgrading of imported fire engines, hazard control in respect of noise, dust,
chlorine gas and lab ventilation.
Distribution hazard control for oil dispensers that are found
not compliant with tank farm safety criteria (including addition of
anti-spillage and electrostatic interlocking systems); renovation of partly
exposed underground unloading pump houses and tank farms; renovation of vacuum
unloading system; hazard control in railway loading areas (including railway
bridges and access roads for fire safety); hazard control for tank farm docks
(including ferryboats and fire safety systems); improvement of fire safety
access roads, fire/water (foam) system, fire pump houses, fire/water ponds, fire
dams and related equipment and facilities that are found not compliant with
design criteria for new tank farms.
Build a company-wide emergency rescue system and improve emergency
response capabilities
At Sinopec, emergency management is one of our top priorities. It establishes
completed and unified emergency management guidance system pword from grassroot
in light of the management principle of “the whole staff, whole process, full
dimensions and all weather”. Emergency management system was set up at each
Sinopec subsidiary.
To ensure better information disclosure for emergency management, we formulated
Sinopec External Communications Policy in 2009, a policy designed specifically
to improve information disclosure practices.
To improve emergency management practices, we prepared and revised Sinopec
Multi-casualty Emergency Response Plan, a plan that consists of an overall
emergency response scheme and 17 sublevel schemes covering four categories of
incidents: industrial safety incidents, public health incidents, natural
disasters and public safety incidents. These schemes, together with the
emergency response plans of Sinopec companies, constitute Sinopec emergency
response system. While preparing these plans and schemes, we ensured they are
legitimate, reasonable, actionable, forward-looking, practical and cost
effective.
WWhile allocating and managing emergency response resources, we follow the
principle of self-reliance and community involvement to optimize resource
allocation. Since most of oilfields and refineries are distant from urban areas
and the special characteristics of oil and petrochemical industry mean emergency
response resources available from local communities are relatively few, we work
hard to ensure that emergency response resources are available and easily
accessible when needed.
Improve safety management along the production line with focus on
contractors and temporary workers
We follow the contractor responsibility system to eliminate and control risks at
the root. We ensure that our contractors fully meet our safety requirements by
tightening safety control during project bidding process and by implementing
contractor HSE performance appraisal procedures. We regularly publicize any
violations of our rules and regulations on the part of contractors in order to
ensure their compliance.
We established and implemented a joint safety responsibility system to hold all
parties involved in construction projects responsible for any accident on the
construction site. The concerning parties may include general contractors,
contractors, subcontractors, supervisory companies, and construction companies.
We intensified safety education to ensure that all contractors and their
personnel are safety minded. HSE risk management concept was applied in safety
management on construction site and workers who were found not qualified were
strictly kept out of construction site. We established and continuously improved
onsite supervision, inspection and appraisal systems and intensified inspection
and supervisory efforts.
We followed the principle that contractors take full
Environmental protection
Natural environment is where we human beings live; therefore, protecting the
natural environment is tantamount to protecting ourselves.
As a responsible major energy and chemical company, Sinopec always concerns
itself with environmental protection, pursues clean production, produces clean
products, strengthens waste control, and actively develops recycling economy in
order to become a greener company.
The global financial crisis put Sinopec in a difficult position in 2009. Despite
the daunting challenges, the company worked harder than ever before to pursue
environmental protection while ensuring business development, with remarkable
achievements made in energy saving, and emission reduction, stack gas
desulfurization and below-limit emissions. Industrial water consumption dropped
by 3.3% and discharged industrial wastewater decreased by 2.0% based on the 2008
level. The COD level in discharged wastewater dropped by 3.6% and sulfur dioxide
emissions decreased by 13.9% compared with the 2008 level, with 96% of
wastewater meeting the national discharge standard. No environmental pollution
incidents occurred throughout the year. Compared with 2005, COD emissions
dropped by 16.3%, and sulfur dioxide emissions dropped by 31.0% in 2009, hitting
the emission reduction targets set by the central government for the 11th
five-year plan period one year ahead of schedule.
Ensure cleanliness throughout product lifecycle from production to
consumption, and reduce emissions with every effort
Sinopec focuses on cleanliness throughout the product lifecycle from production
to consumption, endeavors to control and reduce emissions throughout product
lifecycle and make greater contribution to a cleaner environment.
Pursue clean production and reduce emissions at the source
Sinopec strives for clean production and works hard to control generation of
pollutants at the source.
We continued investing more in environmental protection and environmental hazard
control in 2009. Additional investment was made in environmental protection as
evidenced by the fact that environmental investment in construction of
refineries alone amounted to 600 million RMB. 105 environmental hazards were
identified and resolved with capital investment of 360 million RMB in 2009, with
focus on air pollution control, sewage control and provision of online
monitoring equipment.
We strengthened environmental management on construction sites, supervised and
inspected to ensure environmental impact assessment was conducted and HSE policy
was fully complied with on every construction site and that new construction
projects were all implemented in an environmentally preferable manner.
Online environmental monitoring plan was implemented across the company, and
online emission monitoring system was set up at some Sinopec companies to
realize real-time emission monitoring.
We addressed environmental issues by evaluating the environmental performance of
Sinopec companies, developing and implementing pollution control plans and
corrective measures, specifying environmental requirements and criteria and
helping them realize below-limit pollutant emissions.
We continued to strive for clean production in every aspect of our operations.
In 2009, two Sinopec companies underwent preliminary evaluation, three underwent
evaluation and four underwent clean production review. Through these efforts,
environmental awareness at Sinopec was significantly raised, management
performance remarkably bettered, emissions of main pollutants drastically
dropped and energy conservation continuously improved.
At the end of 2009, 18 Sinopec companies, including Zhenhai Refinery, were
accredited to ISO14000 standard.
Sinopec reviews the qualification certificates of its suppliers every year,
including ISO quality accreditation, environmental certification and special
compulsory certification status, in order to challenge suppliers to improve work
environment, improve product quality and better protect natural environment.
Produce clean products and reduce emissions on the other end of product
lifecycles
Since compulsory elimination of leaded gasoline in China in 2000, the quality of
oil products has drastically improved throughout the country, reaching a target
within ten years that cost developed countries several decades to achieve.
Sinopec made tremendous contribution to this great achievement.
Between 2005 and 2009, Sinopec invested 17.4 billion RMB in oil product quality
improvement and equipment upgrading. In 2009, Sinopec began providing clean
fuels that meet the national standard III, Shanghai municipal standard IV and
Beijing municipal standard IV in 14 provinces and municipalities including
Beijing and Shanghai.
In June 2006, the central government promulgated national vehicle diesel oil
quality standard III (sulfur content no higher than 350ppm), to be effective as
of July 1, 2011. Meanwhile, revision of quality standard for regular diesel oil
is also underway. To realize quality upgrading of vehicle diesel oil, Sinopec is
actively building hydrogenation refining, cracking and modification plants with
capital investment of 6.7 billion RMB.
Technological innovation provides a solid cornerstone for oil product quality
upgrading. Focusing on technology development, Sinopec developed a pool of
proprietary technologies for main refining and chemical processes, with
capabilities to build 10 MTA refineries and 1 MTA ethylene plants using its own
proprietary technologies. In recent years, many technological achievements were
made due to improvement of R&D system and increased R&D expenditures. Between
2005 and 2009, Sinopec acquired 3,955 domestic patents and 377 foreign patents.
As at the end of 2009, Sinopec won a national top technology award and 44
national awards for technical invention and 278 national awards for
technological advancement. Sinopec is one of the most technologically capable
companies in China.
Following a unique approach to technology development called “ten dragons”,
Sinopec successfully developed major technologies covering oil & gas exploration
and development, refining, chemicals and chemical fibers, energy conservation,
safety and environmental protection. Currently, Sinopec has the capabilities to
produce gasoline and diesel oil products that meet Euro IV standard, with
greater efforts being made to develop technology for production of gasoline and
diesel oil products that meet Euro V. Product quality improvements at Sinopec
are mainly driven by self-developed technology.
Sinopec products are highly recognized for their contribution to the
60th National Day celebrations
Over the years, Sinopec provided a great quantity of high-quality
special-purpose lubricant and grease products to aerospace and shipbuilding
industries in China, winning high recognition of users. In 2009, Sinopec was
engaged to develop and produce specialty oil products for use in equipment and
floats used during the National Day parade, which met the user requirements.
Sinopec Beijing Oil Co., Ltd. refueled the floats during the parade seven times
and was thus recognized by the State Assets Supervision and Administration
Commission as an advanced organization in supporting 60th National Day Parade.
To contribute to a successful National Day parade, Sinopec improved the
stiffness of the carpets for use during the parade, set up an installation team
with experience gained from Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, formulated a detailed
carpet installation plan and preventive measures against rainfall and finally
laid 8,000 square meters carpet on Tian’anmen Rostrum.
SSpecial-purpose high-grade asphalt specially developed by Sinopec for the
National Day Parade was applied on Chang An Avenue of Beijing for the first
time. With world-class performance in resistance to crack, skid and rut and
noise reduction, this product meets the demanding requirements of the National
Day parade and everyday traffic and can increase the road service life to about
15 years.
Strengthen waste control and strive for below-limit emissions
The oil production and refining process inevitably generates wastewater, exhaust
gases and waste residues. Sinopec has always been working on waste control and
minimizing emissions. br>
Over the past year, we made more investment in desulfurization for coal or
coke-fired furnaces. As at the end of 2009, stack gas desulfurization projects
of all Sinopec refineries received approval for capital investment. Of these
projects, 8 proposals were approved in 2009 with approved investment of about
700 million RMB. It is predicted that when these projects are completed, over
200,000 tons of sulfur emissions will be avoided.
In 2009 several large sewage treatment plant deodorization and sewage treatment
projects were approved, involving total investment of over 300 million RMB.
After completing the oil & gas recovery project for tank farms and gas stations
in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei Province, Sinopec carried out oil and gas recovery
at tank farms and gas stations in Guangdong, Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang
provinces, contributing to the environmental improvement and energy
conservation.
No serious leakage of hazardous substances occurred at Sinopec throughout 2009.
DDespite the increased crude oil output, throughput and deterioration (average
sulfur content in crude oil rose from 0.9% in 2005 to 1.03% in 2009), we managed
to ensure that over 96% of discharged effluents met the discharge standard,
reduced COD emissions by 3.6% and dioxide sulfur emissions by 13.9% over the
last year, with more remarkable improvement realized in per unit output
emission.
Develop recycling economy and turn wastes into valuables
Sinopec actively pursues recycling economy, effective utilization and recycling
of resources and comprehensive utilization of side products to realize low
consumption, low emissions and high efficiency. br>
Stripped gas from refineries was used for construction of concentration units or
ethylene-based ethyl benzene production plants. In 2009, five projects were
completed or approved, resulting in total utilization of over 100,000 tons of
ethylene out of stripped gas.
Ethylene was used to generate side products of C4 and C5 through cracking
process. In 2009, cracking-based full C5 separation was realized in Shanghai,
with two other C5 separation projects expected to commence in Tianjin and
Yanshan respectively. We are planning to build a commercial-scale C4 plant in
Yanshan using self-developed olefin disproportionation technology.
In 2009, 50 lighter hydrocarbon recovery projects were implemented, resulting in
annual recovery capacity of about 3.51 million tons.
Through gasification of feedstock used for hydrogen production and recovery of
hydrogen-rich gases, about 297,000 tons of naphtha in hydrogen-generating
feedstock can be replaced and 137,000 standard cubic meters of hydrogen
recovered per hour.
Liquefied gas components were recovered from coking plant. We completed
renovation of ten coking plants for greater absorption capacity and stability,
resulting in annual liquefied gas recovery capacity of 200,000 tons.
Sinopec established a leadership team and published an implementation plan for
the campaign. Across the company, over 1,200 safety lectures were delivered,
48,000 emergency drills conducted and over 1,800 safety quizzes held, involving
over 440,000 employee participants.
We solicited contributions from all employees that highlighted safety awareness
and best practices including video clips and articles, which were then prepared
into video discs and pamphlets for distribution to employees at all levels.
Various events and activities were conducted to raise employee safety awareness,
including a Safety Month campaign and wintertime 100-day safety competition.
WWith the “I Safe” campaign, a safety-centered environment was created, and
employees became more aware of the need to always act with safety in mind.
Protect and improve the ecological environment
Oil & gas exploration and development and the construction of oil and gas
transmission pipelines inevitably cause damage to the ecological environment.
Sinopec pays great attention to restoration and rehabilitation of ecosystem
around abandoned wells and along the oil and gas pipelines in an effort to
minimize the impact of its production and operations on the environment. br>
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