Safety in the workplace, an area of the PARI 2025 safety strategy of Teréga

Workplace safety is one of our priorities. Teréga has also set an ambitious and voluntary target, in line with our PARI 2025 strategy: “Zero accidents”. We work on several fields simultaneously, in order to assert an efficient way of operating.

A safety management system, ISO 45001 certified, is implemented to provide structure and method, with the desire to rely on a clarified and simplified set of codes and standards. 

Another area is to promote participatory innovation so that creativity and innovation are a permanent source of improvement in safety and working conditions.

Finally, our other main focus is animation and acculturation for an optimal level of HSE skills and involvement. To move towards an integrated safety culture, the emphasis is placed on strong management leadership and the increased involvement of each of our employees.

While prevention is a priority area of work, we are working in particular on the diamond concept of prevention. Its objective: to focus on the essential by graduating the seriousness of events.

To take things further, Teréga has conducted a thorough review of the 3SE approval, a process for preselecting contracting companies. Now adapted according to the type and level of risk for each service, it meets new environmental, energy, security and cybersecurity requirements in line with the MASE/ISO 14001 and ISO 50001 certifications, guarantees of an effective management system. In addition, the approval of new key suppliers and service providers is now subject to a field audit. 

The Group has also developed its invitation to tender procedures toward a single, global operational view of how to manage the most significant risks in each of our projects. The approach was supplemented by the deployment of a set of HSE codes and standards that was simplified and easier to read, in the form of theme-based sheets that can be used when drafting specifications and in the construction phase, to provide support for discussion, supervision or inspection.

Teréga also strengthened the arrangements and financial penalties for safety breaches on worksites, based on seven vital zero-tolerance situations taken from its golden rules.

Finally, new HSE assessment arrangements for services have been implemented to highlight areas of satisfaction and to identify routes for progress to work on with service providers.

Our conviction and commitment are that a risk situation must remain temporary, be avoided or eliminated. To meet this challenge, it is essential that each of our employees has the necessary means to be continuously proactive and remain vigilant. We have set up 12 golden rules, resulting from analysing our risks and occurring events, to define the basic rules associated with these risks. They involve:

• natural gas, 

• movements,

• gestures and postures,

• protective equipment and tools,

• intervention management,

• change management,

• parallel human-machinery activity,

• earthworks/excavations,

• lifting and hoisting operations,

• lock-out/tag-out,

• work at height,

• set of temporary operational factors.

In order to further strengthen prevention, Teréga has also developed the use of digital tools:

• a mobile application – TERA – with photo and geolocation, to report risk situations or any accident in real time,

• a virtual reality tool, to train in the operation of delivery stations,

• an e-learning approach for personal safety reception for drilling, storage centres and compressor stations.

Road safety is an everyday challenge. Workers for Teréga and partner companies are particularly exposed to risk on the roads, due to the number of kilometres they travel every day. 

The introduction of a road safety policy within the Group shows our desire to pursue safety actions to reduce the risks associated with travel. Those commitments are thus shared with partner companies to ensure everyone is on board.