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Safety and Health

Safety and Health

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Safety and Health-First Management

To make a fresh start as a member of the Hanwha Group, Hanwha Ocean newly established the HSE Management Policy that outlines basic management principles and general guidelines for decision-making based on the opinions of the Safety Management Advisory Committee consisting of external members, as well as all members of the company (including management, executives team leaders, managers, field workers, and suppliers). With the announcement of the HSE Management Policy, we set our HSE goals clearly and revealed the commitment of our executives to constantly improve and implement HSE management and provide a safe and healthy working environment for all employees.

We held a joint labor-management HSE management policy declaration ceremony (Oct. 12, 2023) and renewed our commitment to implementing HSE as a top priority. The HSE Management Policy was translated into eight languages including Nepalese, Vietnamese, and Thai, in consideration of the growing number of foreign workers. Employees can find the policy in their language immediately by scanning the QR code at the bottom of the HSE Management Policy. To raise awareness and understanding of the HSE Management Policy among all employees, we created about 3,000 frames and posters with the HSE Management Policy and held an event to submit group photos with the HSE Management Policy in the background, as well as photos proving their pledge to the policy. Through such initiatives, we ensured the quick spread of the policy among our employees

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HSE Management Policy Declaration Ceremony held on Oct. 12, 2023
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Key opinions on the HSE Management Policy by position
Safety and Health
Management System

Hanwha Ocean is committed to engaging in faithful communication with each stakeholder. We formed a safety control tower encompassing the team-level safety and health committee, company-wide HSE management meeting, and the Safety Management Advisory Committee composed of external experts to actively discuss and communicate on safety issues and make the best decision on them.

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    Shipowners’ Joint Regular Safety Council H.O.M.E (monthly)
    (Hanwha Ocean Management Engagement)
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    Company-wide HSE management meeting (monthly)
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    Safety Management Advisory Committee (quarterly)
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    Team-level Safety and Health Committee (monthly)
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    Subcontractor Safety and Health Council (monthly)
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    Labor-Management Occupational Safety and Health Committee (monthly)
Efforts to Improve HSE
Fundamentals

Hanwha Ocean is the first company in the Korean shipbuilding industry to adopt the International Safety Rating System organized by DNV, and we strive to improve the HSE fundamentals after facing the reality as it is. Based on a cool-headed assessment consisting of 500 questions in 15 categories by an external agency regarding our safety and health management level, we recognized the current status of health and safety and provided feedback to lead innovation in the safety and health level.

Also, we constantly monitor our HSE management system and execution capabilities as we identified and improved approx. 50 detailed tasks to innovate people, facilities, and systems.

50 tasks for HSE improvement identified from self-assessment
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  • Strengthening monitoring
    • Operating special inspection teams and internal safety audits
    • Managing safety ratings by organization and place after diagnosis
  • Facility improvement
    • Promptly implementing HSE facility investments
    • Reorganizing shipyards through facility investment including prevention
    • Simplifying HSE-related investments and adjusting the work processing authority
  • SMART Safety
    • Establishing smart safety infrastructure
    • Switching dangerous machines to smart devices (heavy equipment, cranes, etc.)
    • Smart control of vulnerable and dangerous places
    • Using smart personal devices
  • Safety leadership
    • Implementing safety-first management, with C-suite setting an example
    • Field safety personnel running Safety Talks at every meeting
    • Operating the Labor-Management Safety Committee
    • Fostering safety experts
  • Compliance
    • Implementing regulatory compliance activities
    • Strengthening rewards and penalties for organizational/individual safety 
    • Leveling up the HSE knowledge of all employees
  • System improvement
    • Reorganizing HSE standards and regulations, and work standards
    • Strengthening safety key performance indicators (KPIs) within the organization (50% or more)
    • Strengthening the process of verifying the implementation of work
    • Reinforcing the safety of foreign workers
    • Safety rating by safety diagnosis by organization
  • Establishing a safety culture
    raising safety awareness
    • Safety leadership
    • Compliance
    • System improvement
    • SMART Safety
    • Facility improvement
    • Strengthening monitoring
    • Strengthening HSE capabilities at all levels
    • HSE management system reorganization /Level-UP
    • Establishment of smart safety infrastructure
    • People
    • Systems
    • Facilities