World Day for Safety: Rallying our Teams and Partner Companies to Engage with Safety
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Every year in April, the International Labour Organization (ILO) commemorates the World Day for Safety and Health at Work. This event gives TotalEnergies an opportunity to remind people of the importance of Safety. A different theme is chosen every year, so that we can exchange ideas with our employees and partner companies and work together towards our safety and health objectives.
Following on from the 2023 and 2024 editions, TotalEnergies is raising awareness of technological risks among its employees and partner companies, focusing this year on the theme of critical barriers and downgraded situations. Guaranteeing the reliability and availability of critical barriers can prevent or limit a major accident. Each action counts: knowing, inspecting and maintaining these barriers throughout the lifecycle of facilities, but also knowing how to react in the event of failure and how to report downgraded situations properly.
In 2024, TotalEnergies celebrated its 100 years in business: a century of addressing challenges and pushing the boundaries of technology, as well as improving safety in the workplace and at our facilities. The Company learns from its own major accidents as well as those occurring in industry. It draws lessons from these accidents and has set up an event and feedback management process to make its operations even safer.
In 2023, TotalEnergies decided to raise awareness of technological risks among its employees and contractors, because controlling the technological risks of the Company’s industrial operations means protecting people, the environment and property. Since the facilities operated by TotalEnergies and the products transported can trigger accidents with serious consequences, every detail counts!
Established on the basis of lessons learned, TotalEnergies’ Golden Rules are essential to ensure everyday safety in its operations and on all its sites to achieve its goal of “zero fatal accidents”. They form the foundations of a safety culture shared by everyone. To work safely and protect the lives of all, these rules must guide the actions of the Company’s employees everywhere and every day.
TotalEnergies is committed to strengthening the ties at all management levels between the Company and its main local contractors in order to reinforce shared vigilance of major hazards. At all the Company’s operated sites, employees and contractors work together in sharing best practices and moving safety forward.
