Everyone has the right to work in a safe, secure and healthy working environment. Due to the nature of our activities, many projects take place in challenging working environments. Workplace health, wellbeing and safety - for our own people, as well as subcontractors, suppliers, partners and other stakeholders - is our highest priority.
QHSE Management System
Maintaining the highest standards in everything we do
As a fast evolving organisation we have a robust Quality, Health, Safety and Environment management system in place, describing our policies, practices and procedures. The management system reflects the diversity of our activities, industries and clients we work with. We continually improve the effectiveness of our management system in order to ensure that the highest standards are maintained.
Process owners are the driving force behind our continuous improvement process. Our process owners set up and maintain process descriptions, generic risk assessments, work instructions and procedures, and other useful documentation and tools. They also keep track of actions, and help identify KPIs and targets. We also strongly encourage knowledge sharing within the organisation. As specialists in their domain, they can give advice to all levels within the organisation.
Focus on continuous improvement
Encouraging the reporting of lost time incidents
While we work tirelessly to reduce the number of injuries and environmental incidents, it also strongly encourages employees to report any incident, near miss or unsafe situation. Pearl believes, and has evidence to prove it, that when more incidents are reported, serious accidents are avoided in the future. In short, by understanding these incidents better, we can improve safety procedures and stop the same problem happening again. In fact, we develop policies and procedures based on either past incidents and near misses in the organisation.
Key Process Indicators
Proactive and preventive approach
Key Process Indicators (KPI) — published every quarter, and in place at all levels of our organisation — show the number of incidents that have a High Potential of damaging people, assets, quality, the environment or Pearl’s reputation. In short, it gives an indication of the activities that could cause harm to the company's activities.
Focusing on the potential consequences and the potential severity of incidents, instead of what actually went wrong, results in a more proactive and preventive approach. This way we continue to encourage our employees to constantly look for possible risks in their working environment. This information is then used to develop targeted action plans so that our employees – whether ashore or at sea – can take the appropriate measures.