Industrial Safety
The Group strives to create a safe work environment, continuously improves its production processes, invests in staff development, and ensures compliance with safety rules to minimize risks of work-related accidents. Protecting the health and lives of employees is one of the Group’s top priorities.The company has been deliberately increasing its spending on employee, industrial, and fire safety. Over the past four years, it has increased almost threefold..
The Group’s occupational health and safety standards apply to the both the Group’s companies and its contractors. In this regard, the Group has developed the following:
Operational Control Includes A Set Of Measures Aimed At Ensuring The Safe Operation Of Hazardous Production Facilities, Preventing Accidents, And Being Ready To Localize Their Consequences.
Prevention And Management Of Emergency Situations
Industrial Risks Insurance
In order to minimize the negative effects related to possible accidents, the Group annually acquires an integrated insurance package, which includes:
Every year, independent international risk engineers conduct a survey of the Group’s fields and license blocks. Following their recommendations, the Group minimizes the identified potential risks, taking into account the probability and magnitude of each risk and its possible consequences.
Fire Safety
The Group’s main focus in this area remains to continuously improve its fire-preventative measures. The Group carries out regular inspections of fire operations at its facilities, fire drills, and fire-technical reviews. It has developed fire eliminations plans, is improving field infrastructure necessary for the prevention and rapid localization of fires, and operates fire brigades.:
The Group’s fire stations contain and eliminate fires not only at its facilities, but also at neighboring municipalities, adjacent forest areas, and contractors’ facilities..:
Occupational Safety
The Group is continuously working on improving the safety of its employees by creating healthy and safe work conditions and providing safety training to its employees..:
Its workplaces comply with the health and safety standards established by Kazakhstan law. The Group’s employees and contractors operating at its fields and license areas are provided personal protective equipment. All of the Group’s employees are insured against accidents and undergo regular medical examination.
Many years of successful implementation of the occupational safety policy have resulted in a gradual decline in the occurrence of accidents, bringing the number of accidents down to zero in 2013.: