At Botswana Oil Limited (BOL) Health, Safety, Security and Environment (HSSE) is our top priority. This is in recognition of its importance to our business, partners, employees, and the communities within which we operate. BOL has zero tolerance to HSSE incidents and strives to maintain:
- Zero injuries
- Zero fatalities
- Zero workplace illnesses
- Zero spills or environmental pollution.
All aspects of our business are managed in a safe, healthy, and environmentally responsible manner in accordance with statutory requirement and international standards. Therefore, we endeavour to create and maintain a safe, clean, and healthy workplace and environment.
The BOL HSSE Policy defines the Company’s HSSE commitment and safety culture. We know that successful management of HSSE in the workplace requires commitment, consultation, and co-operation of all company stakeholders.
BOL encourages all stakeholders active in its workplace whether these are employees or contractors to appreciate the need for HSSE systems and their contribution to making the workplace safer.
The BOL HSSE Policy is important as it:
- Demonstrates that BOL is meeting its health, safety and environmental obligations and is committed to working within set HSSE principles.
- Defines BOL roles and responsibilities and confirms that safe systems of work are recorded, communicated to employees, and implemented in a consistent way throughout the business.
- And guides the business to manage employees more effectively by defining acceptable and unacceptable behaviour in the workplace.
The BOL HSSE Policy principles are:
- Demonstrate Leadership in Health, Safety, Security and Environment
- Achieve an incident- and injury-free workplace
- Promote a healthy workforce and mitigate significant workplace health risks.
- Identify and mitigate environmental and process safety risks.
- Efficiently use natural resources and assets.
- Protect personnel, property, information, and reputation against security threats.
- Operate with industry-leading asset integrity and reliability.
- Compliance with all applicable HSSE Legal and other regulatory requirements
- Timeous and efficient Emergency and Crisis Management system
- HSSE management system with objectives and targets.