HSE

Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) is regarded as one of the key subject areas in the company and is thus given careful consideration throughout the organisation. BW Offshore is certified in line with several international standards within HSE: ISO 14001 Environmental Management, OHSAS 18001 Occupational Health and Safety Management as well as the International Safety Management code (ISM).

Policy statement

 BW Offshore shall be committed to prioritize HSE matters in all our operations, for all our personnel and on all our units and premises. We believe in a zero incident philosophy, that all incidents resulting in harm to people, environment and property can be prevented. We shall provide a safe working environment, prevent injuries and ill health, prevent pollution and reduce the environmental impact of our operations, and strive to continuously improve our HSE performance.

We achieve this by           

•  identifying all HSE risks and implementing their respective countermeasures as far as reasonably practicable,
• continually improving the Management System, ensuring compliance with relevant international standards and HSE regulations,
• periodically reviewing the HSE aspects, and establishing annual HSE goals and programmes to manage and improve our performance,
• ensuring that we have competent and sufficient personnel,
• influencing the knowledge, values, norms, ideas and attitudes of our personnel, in order to improve the HSE culture within the company.

BW Offshore seeks to continously improve and our HSE goals are to have zero

• lost time injuries
• high risk incidents
• spills to the environment
• unplanned emissions
• occupational illness cases