Industrial and Process Safety
We look after the safety of our operations by providing the right conditions and promoting a culture of prevention and healthy and safe behaviors. The safety of our employees, contractors, customers, and communities is one of our priorities, so we work to prevent and reduce risks in our operations.
We work every day to strengthen and enhance a safety culture that allows us to anticipate risks in order to prevent accidents in our operations.
Commitment with health and security in the workplace
In accordance with the corporate policy, Promigas is committed to the safety of all operations with scope to employees, contractors and other interested parties by providing safe working conditions, promoting the participation and consultation of employees for the prevention of occupational risks, and promoting healthy, safe and interdependent behaviors; The above, through the application of high national and international standards in safety and health at work, and process safety. | 
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In order to ensure the effective management of all risks, we are committed to:
- Implement plans and programs for risk control, in accordance with current legislation and international good practices in industrial and process safety.
- Continuously improve the performance of our management system.
- Measure the performance of the management system and monitor it through the established KPIs.
Our system is leveraged on legal and international standards such as ISO 45001, the OSHAS CFR1910.147 standard, the risk-based process safety guidelines CCPS- Center for Chemical Process Safety, ASME B 31. 8, Resolution 90708-30-08-2013 of the Ministry of Mines and Energy, the Colombian Electrical Code and its standard NTC2050-25/11/1998, the NFPA 70E standard 2018 version and Resolution 5018/2019 that provides these guidelines for companies that generate, transport, distribute and commercialize electrical energy and those that provide and use the Colombian electrical system. Also, in other resolutions and decrees that regulate safe work at heights, strategic road plan, disaster risk plan, psychosocial risk, biosafety, confined spaces, inter alia.
It covers all direct employees, temporary employees, suppliers, and contractors, and 100% of the work centers and sites where there are operations or projects are covered.
To carry out the identification of hazards and risk assessment, the organization has established procedures and mechanisms to obtain information and ensure its quality, a process that is carried out by the safety unit of each company, with the support of contractors and safety auditors, and is monitored and verified by internal and external audits and by the Corporate Control Management.
The corporate strategy has established the objective of 'Ensuring a safe operation', which indicates that safety is important at all levels of the organization.
Achievements
- 52% reduction in corporate LTI FR in the last five years.
- Compliance with the corporate LTIFR target of 3.23 versus a result of 1.78.
- All companies achieved ISO 45001:V2018 recertification.
- Promigas receives safety award in the Honoris Program of the Colombian Safety Council in the category of Ongoing Improvement.
- Performing a security maturity diagnosis for all companies, within the + Safety Project.
- Compliance with OHSMS work plans above 90%
- Four proactive process safety (PS) indicators were incorporated with a corporate scope monitored on a monthly basis by the Board of Directors: compliance with the action plans of the process safety diagnosis, executive walks, operational drills, and process safety training for critical positions, which strengthened the execution of all these activities in all companies.
- Implementation of the Executive Walks program by the senior management of Promigas and the Director Generals of the portfolio companies.
Indicators: includes 100% of workers and contractors.
In 2022, 3 employees (1%) of the new Energy Solutions process that is being included in the system at the beginning of 2023 were not taken into account.
Fatalities resulting from an occupational accident injury.
*Number of deaths due to occupational accidents *200,000/Man-hours worked
Injuries with major consequences (not including fatalities)
* Number of accidents with major consequences *200,000/Man-hours worked
Note: Major consequences: accidents that result in disability or incapacity for more than 6 months or that are included in the definition of serious accident in the Colombian legislation in force.The most frequent types of occupational injuries are: biomechanical, on premises, traffic accidents, falls of persons, blows, fractures and injuries.
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