EHS at Tullow

At Tullow, we are committed to the highest standards of EHS performance across our business and we seek to continuously improve all our EHS activities. We regularly set and review our EHS objectives and targets and benchmark our activities, with the aim of achieving consistent improvement in EHS knowledge and performance.

EHS responsibility

Tullow’s EHS policy, which was updated in March 2007, aims to ensure that the Group manages and minimises its impact on the environment and ensures that Tullow employees and contractors have a safe place to work with safe systems and procedures.

We aim to comply with the appropriate environment, health, safety and welfare legislation in every jurisdiction where the Group has operations. A reflection of Tullow’s commitment to the sustainable development of the Group is that responsibility for EHS and CSR resides at the highest level. Aidan Heavey, Tullow’s founder and Chief Executive Officer, is the Nominated Director with responsibility for EHS and CSR. EHS performance is reported to management on a monthly basis and any material issue is reported and dealt with immediately. There are formal presentations to the Board on this subject a minimum of twice a year.

EHS culture

We promote a strong EHS culture by embedding EHS throughout the business, and in the conduct of our day-to-day activities. We manage our EHS performance through the Group’s IMS and related tools. All Tullow job descriptions clearly identify the general health and safety responsibilities for the individual as well as any specific requirements for their role. Health and safety awareness is one of the five key qualities that are assessed as part of Tullow’s performance appraisal process, where employees are evaluated by how well they understand the importance of EHS issues in all aspects of the business and whether they fully and actively support Tullow’s EHS policies and objectives. There is a strong EHS culture which ensures high levels of employee and contractor awareness and a willingness to contribute individually and collectively to EHS issues. At a senior level, there are bi-monthly EHS management meetings and health and safety is on the agenda at the Group’s monthly meeting, feedback from which is widely circulated. For high risk activities, such as drilling and seismic acquisition, there is direct involvement with the contractors managing the project to ensure that health and safety standards are being met and maintained.

EHS leadership

We provide strong and visible leadership in EHS. Each year, Tullow’s Chief Operating Officer, Paul McDade, holds a week-long seminar which is attended by business unit and country managers and other senior personnel including those responsible for higher risk activities such as drilling and seismic acquisition. This meeting includes two days dedicated to EHS to ensure a consistent message and standards across the Group and to get senior management input into upcoming EHS activities. Subjects covered this year included EHS leadership and commitment, an introduction to the improved Accident and Incident Reporting and Investigation Procedures and a discussion regarding the annual EHS management review. Briefings were also conducted on crisis and emergency management, ISO 14001 certification and environmental standards management, and CSR initiatives.