Sustainability Report 2016

Some of our companies have obtained the OHSAS

18001 Occupational Health and Safety (OHS)

standard certification. Furthermore, we developed

a set of OHS management system documents

specific to this certification. This is designed to

increase our JVs’ capacity to manage safety and

risk, as well as to align the standards set out in

the Group’s HSE management system, which

covers general OHS, fire control, operational

safety and emergency response procedures.

We have implemented the General Manager

Monthly Safety Inspection Programme across

our businesses. It ensures safe operations

across 12 areas, including customer safety,

fire safety, pipeline patrol and gas leakage

surveys, station safety and emergency response

and management, among others. Our Safety

Committee, led by senior management, also visits

project companies across the regions to make

annual safety inspections. Since 2006, we have

carried out a safety and risk management audit,

of which six rounds have been completed to date.

Mainland China

In addition, as the number of our Compressed

Natural Gas (CNG) and LNG refilling stations

continues to increase in mainland China, the

Company has, since 2013, rolled out a safety

audit. It assesses the safety performance of these

businesses with the overall aim of enhancing the

results for the future. In 2016, 11 ECO mainland

gas refilling stations were audited and all

achieved satisfactory results.

In 2016, we held several HSE workshops which

were attended by more than 450 people. They

shared experiences about safety and risk

management in Hong Kong and mainland China

and helped to strengthen the safety culture across

the business portfolio. In addition, we introduced

our WeChat HSE promotion platform, which

serves as a communication channel to promote

the latest HSE best practice, HSE knowledge,

incident alerts and various interactive campaigns.