All activities in PECL will be performed to ensure that Health, Safety, Security of life and properties of staff, company, third party and communities are preserved.
The management of Python Engineering is committed to ensure continuous improvement of our products and production methods with the objective to reduce our environmental impact. Being aware that the products we make represent the largest impact on our environment, Python is duly focusing on optimizing its design, and constantly working on environmentally relevant product innovations. To achieve this objective, all instructions and guidelines in Python HSE Policy for protection, conservation and minimization of the impact on environment must be strictly observed by our staff and third parties.
Activities considered unhealthy; unsafe and insecure or with negative environmental impact or potential cause of community disturbance will definitely not be carried out by our staff or sub-contractors; but such activities must be stopped until considered safe to continue.
In practice, all hazards would have been identified and the full implication of all their potential effects
The Management of HSE issues will be given priority by PECL in all its activities; and our line Managers and Supervisors are accountable for cashes target.
PECL requires its sub-contractors to apply HSE standards fully comparable with its own.
In principle, in Python we believe that all accidents are preventable and every effort should be made to plan towards target zero for accidents.
Implementation of HSE Policy in PECL, is the responsibility of line Managers; this obligation leads to greater efficiency and higher standards in all units and departments within the Company.
The Health, Safety and Environment Policies of the Company are communicated to all employees, to the client and to all third parties with whom the Company may be associated.
PECL is committed to work within the regulations and codes of practices laid down by decree and Liaise closely with all Government departments as well as professional and academic bodies to ensure the improvement of all HSE legislation.
It is the Company’s Policy to sustain the appropriate training for all its personnel, to ensure that PECL procedures and Government regulations are known and observed.
Part of the HSE engagement is that PECL makes all its employees to participate in daily and monthly HSE meetings to increase their awareness on safety and all relevant matters and topics that can be brought in according to different circumstances. The company and its employees are being audited bi-annually or annually by international companies operating in the oil and gas sector in Nigeria, like Chevron, Shell, Agip, Total and others,…
In addition to that and as Python engineering is an oil field services provider and as it owns multiple vessels from inland to offshore types, it has uplifted her HSE standard to international standard in accordance to International Maritime Organization (IMO) and has obtained several certificates in that area from the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), not limited to “Document of compliance” issued under the provisions of the International convention For the safety of life at sea, 1974. This document is usually is given to certify that the safety management system of the company has been audited and that it complies with the requirements of the international management code for the safe operation of ships and for pollution prevention (ISM code) for the type of ships that the company own.
The Safety Management System contains up-to-date procedures and instructions, which enables our employees to carry out the transportation assignment in the most effective manner as specified by the customer. The Safety Management System also provides a tool to comply with mandatory rules, regulations, applicable codes, guidelines and standards. English is the established working language and the Safety Management System Manual and other relevant publications are provided in English.
The objectives of the implemented Safety Management System are:
- Compliance with the principles of a Safety, Health, Environmental Care and Quality Management System.
- Compliance with applicable national legislation, regulations and codes.
The implemented Safety Management System is based on the following Standards, Codes and Regulations:
- IMO-resolution A. 741(18), the International Management Code for the Safe Operations of Ships and for Pollution Prevention ( International Safety Management Code)
- Class requirements with respect to design, construction, and equipment of ships.
- MARPOL, SOLAS, Prevention of Collision Regulations, STCW, Load line Convention
- IMO/Industry Codes such as:
- Code of Safe Practice for Cargo Stowage and Securing
- Code of Safe Practice for Solid Bulk Cargoes
- Perils at Sea and Salvage
- Bridge Procedures Guide.