Occupational safety

The key criterion of the Company’s social responsibility is fulfillment of obligations on creation of safe working conditions.

Recognizing the priority of workers’ lives and health over the results of production activities, the Company strives to reduce risks at the workplace, preventing accidents at work, achieving a high level of industrial safety and labor protection. These tasks are ensured by an integrated management system of industrial safety, occupational health and the environment, certified for compliance with the international standards ISO 14001: 2004 and OHSAS 18001:2007.

In accordance with the international standard OHSAS 18001 the Company implemented the “Program (action plan) of ChinOil in the area of industrial and occupational safety to prevent injuries, reduce the risk of accidents and unplanned losses for 2013-2015”, which aims at preservation of life and health, as well as improvement of working conditions, reduction of accidents, major industrial risks, improvement of the equipment operation safety, as well as improvement of the facilities’ fire protection condition.

One of the priorities of the Company’s management to create healthy and safe working conditions is to ensure that the workers are provided with protective clothing and other personal protection equipment. In the event of work in harmful or dangerous working conditions, as well as in case of the work carried out in special temperature conditions or the polluted environment the employees shall be provided with specialized clothes, footwear and other personal protection equipment, as well as required disinfectants in accordance with specified model rules.