Safety Performance
Superior safety performance continues to be one of our most important initiatives. We are committed to further improvement across all of our businesses.
We aspire to create a positive safety culture by leading by example and empowering our employees to stop the job if it feels unsafe. In 2010 we reduced our total recordable case frequency (TRCF) by 6%, consistent with our trend over recent years. Although our lost work case frequency (LWCF) increased by 11%, actions have been taken by senior management to correct this, including safety stand-downs, identification of root causes of incidents and implementation of behavioural programmes.
Initiatives
The Frontline Focus campaign continued to ensure that our core health and safety initiatives are effectively implemented where such potential risks are greatest — at the frontline of our operations. Our Behavioural Standard and Safety Culture programmes continued to raise the awareness of the impact of human factors such as leadership, behaviours and competencies on the delivery of safety performance across the Group. We also implemented integrity management principles in our highest risk areas of operations. Initiatives unique to individual businesses included the continuing HANDSAFE campaign run by GTS in the USA, UK, Dubai and Thailand.
Recognising success
Our performance was recognised by a number of our clients including Chevron, who awarded Wood Group Brasil a Gold Level HSE performance award and Woodside in Australia who awarded J P Kenny the Oil and Gas Encouragement Award, part of the Government of Western Australia 2010 Innovator of the Year programme. In Trinidad, Neal& Massy Wood Group was awarded the Chairman’s Award by BP for Safety and Operational Integrity.
Regulators and industry bodies also recognised our health and safety performance. Wood Group Kenny was awarded the IFAP Gold Safe Way Achiever Award for 2010 for the fifth consecutive year. As a result of this success, Wood Group Kenny has also been awarded a Platinum Recognition award acknowledging their consistent performance.