Other Initiatives
Efforts to Reduce Incidents
As part of our efforts toward incident prevention, we continue to share learnings from incidents, and analyze and share trends in major incidents and other incidents resulting in injury.
We also monitor two leading safety KPIs related to incident management – implementation of incident investigations and implementation of high-priority corrective actions – to strengthen our ability to conduct prompt investigations and take remedial actions.
Incident investigations are conducted promptly and the results are required to be submitted within 7 to 40 days of the incident, depending on the severity. Bulletins and lessons drawn from incidents are shared with all employees through the HSE Portal and other methods. All incidents reported during FY2024 were investigated and corrective actions were taken.
Further activities to prevent major incidents include firmly embedding Life-saving Rules into our business to ensure the safe performance of tasks that carry a significant risk of fatality. We strive to ensure awareness of the Life-saving Rules among our contractors as they represent over 80% of the injury-causing incidents. At Ichthys LNG, we also conduct a coaching program and hold HSE forums with our employees and contractors to promote greater awareness of HSE.
For information on emergency response measures and BCP, please refer to Initiatives for Emergency Response and BCP.
Process Safety Management
Process safety management is the framework for managing the integrity of operating systems and processes according to appropriate design concepts, and engineering, operating, maintenance, and inspection methods. The aim is to prevent or mitigate the effects of the leakage of flammable liquids or other hazardous materials or the occurrence of major incident events, such as fires and explosions.
By ensuring process safety management, we endeavor to prevent leakage in the operation of our facilities.
Our process safety management framework consists of four focus areas and 20 elements. Each element has a detailed set of expectations to which operator projects must adhere. Within the process safety management framework, we prevent process leakage-related major accident events at facilities through systematic identification and assessment of risks. We have also voluntarily adopted a Safety Case document regime at our operational facilities. This demonstrates sufficient implementation of measures to reduce the impact of major accident events, and ensures risks are controlled to ALARP.
In FY2022, we created the 2023–2027 Roadmap for Ongoing Improvements to Process Safety Management. With the aim of systematic implementation of ongoing improvements, this roadmap outlines the process involved in bringing all organizations in the INPEX Group to the same level of maturity in five priority areas by FY2027. This roadmap is being applied from FY2023 onward to strengthen our process safety management. In FY2024, we conducted a trial of a mechanism for achieving Group-wide process safety management competency and published a new process safety competency management guideline. We also applied our process safety knowledge to the fields of hydrogen, ammonia, and CCUS.
Process Safety Management Framework
Fostering of HSE Culture
We conduct activities to foster HSE culture to establish a mindset of safety within our organizations. This includes developing our HSEMS, providing HSE education and training, and sharing learnings from incidents (LFI) through incident investigations with all employees.
As part of our efforts to foster HSE culture, we conduct an annual Corporate HSE Awards program. The awards aim to motivate our people and raise HSE awareness among our organization, and improve our Group-wide HSE performance. In FY2024, we presented seven HSE Activity Awards to five groups, one individual, and one partner company.
To facilitate a top-down approach to raising awareness of HSE among our employees, we engage our senior management to proactively carry out HSE activities.
Management site visits are valuable opportunities for them to demonstrate HSE management leadership and communicate directly with site personnel through talking about HSE initiatives and challenges. Our senior management delivers a unified safety message to each site with the aim of increasing overall HSE awareness. In FY2024, our Executive Officers made six management site visits in Japan and overseas, including one by the Senior Executive Vice President and two by the Executive Officer in charge of HSE.
In September, the Executive Officer in charge of HSE visited the geophysical and geotechnical (G&G) offshore and onshore survey sites on Saumlaki Island in Indonesia. He delivered a safety message to the on-site contractors with a focus on the importance of Life-saving Rules and our safety slogan "Go home with a smile". He discussed the need for good safety performance and obtained suggestions which will be useful for other projects.
Education and Training for Enhanced HSE Competency
In FY2024, we conducted 1,390 hours of HSE education and training via internal workshops and training sessions. In addition, we are providing ongoing hands-on training opportunities both in Japan and overseas for junior technical employees, so they can acquire practical skills in occupational safety management and process safety engineering.
We also develop training targets according to field for our HSE personnel and enable them to further develop their HSE competency through on-the-job training (OJT) as well as training programs from external providers specializing in HSE. We will continue to provide opportunities for education and training to employees in FY2025 as we endeavor to raise the level of HSE competency.
Further, all contractors are provided with inductions when attending any of our sites.