OHS Training
In accordance with Russian laws, NOVATEK conducts mandatory OHS training for its employees using proprietary corporate methodologies.
To improve employees’ OHS knowledge, the Company:
- annually prepares and implements an employee training and professional development program incorporating the analysis of accident causes;
- regularly conducts occupational health training and employees’ knowledge testing, including using a licensed automated training and knowledge testing system;
- regularly conducts briefings for blue-collar employees; and
- at least once a year, organizes employee training at training facilities in safe methods of conducting hazardous operations, such as hot works and work at height.
Industrial safety assessment commissions are set up within the entities to evaluate staff and issue permits for them to work independently at hazardous production facilities using the Unified Testing Portal.
For employees working on a rotational shift basis, occupational health specialists organized additional pre-shift knowledge testing based on specially developed programs, involving third-party training centers followed by a mandatory practical session.
NOVATEK piloted the Honest Exam, a proctoring system that enables recognizing prohibited actions during OHS exams by monitoring through three sources — video, audio, and desktop screen recording.
OHS Certification
Managers and employees of subsidiaries and affiliated companies are regularly certified according to the rules of industrial safety in the territorial commissions of Rostechnadzor. From among them, attestation commissions have been established according to the rules of industrial safety, which carry out certification and admission of personnel to independent work at hazardous production facilities through the Unified Testing Portal information system.
The Company regularly delivers training to ensure that employees are sufficiently competent in the field of occupational safety and industrial safety. The training programs:
- cover all the Company employees as per appropriate procedures;
- are carried out by competent persons;
- provide for effective and timely initial and refresher training at set frequency;
- include feedback from trainees on how clear the course materials were and how well they have learned it; and
- are regularly reviewed and updated to reflect changes in laws and employees’ scope of work.
Comprehensive spill prevention and response exercises
Company subsidiaries and affiliates hold comprehensive exercises involving representatives of government agencies as part of the process to obtain opinions on their preparedness for oil spill prevention and response.
The enterprise teams fully handle and deliver on all training tasks assigned to them. The exercises confirm that the oil spill prevention and response plan in place is up-to-date and adequate, with practical measures enabling rapid containment and clean-up of possible spills.
