Denbury’s dedication to safety is built into our management structure, starting at the highest levels and extending to our field offices. Three members of Denbury’s Board are representatives on the Board’s Reserves and Health, Safety and Environmental (“HSE”) Committee. One of the Committee’s primary oversight responsibilities is to review and assess with senior management the Company’s health and safety polices, practices and procedures.
We understand that we are individually responsible for our own safety and the safety of those around us. We know that every task can be completed injury free.
Denbury has an established HSE Department that provides corporate guidance and standardization across the organization on HSE matters and is tasked with ensuring that Denbury meets or exceeds safety and environmental regulations. Our Vice President of HSE works closely with a dedicated safety team consisting of five corporate and twelve field safety employees integrated into our field operations.
Denbury has an HSE Committee comprised of senior managers from each operations department. This team meets on a regular basis to review, discuss and address safety and compliance performance. The Safety Committee identifies those areas that need improvement and then develops, launches and champions new safety programs and initiatives.
It is Denbury’s policy to conduct business in a manner that respects the environment, as well as the health, safety and security of its stakeholders.
General guiding principles for the Company, its employees and contractors:
- Implement and maintain an HSE management system to achieve the objectives outlined in our HSE Policy.
- Comply with all applicable HSE laws, rules and regulations, not just because it is legally required, but also because we believe it is the responsible way to conduct our business.
- Educate and train employees and contractors to provide them with the knowledge, skills, and understanding to perform their responsibilities and duties at the highest level and maintain a safe, secure and healthy work environment.
- Continue to minimize the impact of our business activities on the environment by implementing economically feasible projects that promote energy efficiency and use natural resources effectively.
- Achieve continuous HSE improvement and compliance by setting HSE leading and lagging performance targets annually, auditing assets and business practices, reviewing results and regularly reporting our performance.
- Routinely review and verify performance with audits, evaluations and other quality assurance and quality control methods.
- Identify and assess potential risks, hazards and threats to people, the environment, and our assets, and implement reasonable and practicable actions to eliminate, mitigate, or manage these risks.
- Empower and expect employees and contractors of the Company to immediately “Stop Work” without fear of reprisal when an unsafe condition or act is observed which could affect the safety of personnel and/or the environment and to report noncompliance or unsafe conditions and take immediate action to prevent injuries or environmental incidents.
- Work proactively with stakeholders to develop and advance effective approaches to health, safety, security and environmental protection.
- Provide resources necessary to manage and communicate our HSE commitment, expectations and accountability in the same manner as any other critical business function.
Compliance with our HSE Policy and working safely are conditions of employment for all employees of the Company, as well as for contractors to work with the Company. Every Denbury employee is expected to take personal responsibility to understand and comply with our HSE Policy.