The Role of HSE management System in Improving health, safety and environment performance in an Oil Organization

Background and aims Nowadays, organisations: trying to utilize HSE system, To establish an appropriate system in the line of maintenance and promotion of healthy work environment without any accidents, injuries, and pollution. HSE management system is a tool to control and improve the performance of health and safety and environment in all development programs of industrial and other structural organizations. This is in fact an integrated system, so that all human financial and equipment resources will support each other to provide a healthy and convenience environment with no any accident and injuries. Methods In this case study all components of an HSE management system is review briefly and explain the role of this system in accident reduction rate and work efficiency in an oil company in the Persian Golf.Three years activities of HSE system in this company been studied, using all reports and any related documents. Different variances as indicators had been defined with which the annual performance of the HSE system, of the company have been evaluated. Results The results show that there are significant improvement in health, safety and environment during the period of 2001-2003 as HSE system implemented. The rate of LTIF decreased from 0.69 in 2001 to 0.5 in 2003 or FAR decreased from 2.2 in 2001 to 0.7 in 2003, and the air pollution of SO 2 decreased from 397 T. in 2001 to 309T. in 2003. Conclusion This study indicated that although the number of employees, number of working hours and number of projects increased significantly during the years 2001 to 2003, but the rate of different related indicators decreased such as LTIF, TRIR, FAR and pollutants like SO 2 , Co 2 , No and CH4.