HSE Policies
Policy of occupational health, safety and environment
Version: 5; 04-06-2025
OVLSC-HSE-POL-001
ONGC Videsh Limited Sucursal Colombiana, an operator doing business in the energy sector and involved in hydrocarbon exploration and production, undertakes to implement those strategies required to ensure the employees’ health and safety, and minimize environmental impact, in all its operations, premises, and working areas, involving partners, contractors, sub-contractors, providers/suppliers, and any other relevant stakeholders.
ONGC Videsh Limited Sucursal Colombiana’s Top Management undertakes to:
- Ensure that human, financial, technical, technological, and infrastructure resources are available as required to implement, maintain, and continuously improve the Occupational Health and Safety Management System.
- To provide a safe and healthy work environment, with the objective of preventing injuries, occupational diseases and ensuring the biopsychosocial well-being of workers.
- Comply with applicable occupational risk legal requirements that are in force, and those adopted by the organization.
- Protect the employees’ health and safety by Hazard Identification and Control, Risk Assessment and Reduction, as well as implementing effective controls to prevent incidents, emergencies, occupational accidents and occupational diseases, ensuring a safe and healthy work environment at all times.
- Ensure that preventive, corrective and improvement actions are effective and help in continuous improvement of the Occupational Health and Safety Management System.
- To guarantee the active participation and consultation of our workers in all decisions affecting coexistence, safety and health at work, promoting a collaborative environment.
- Strengthen the monitoring and control of suppliers and contractors, ensuring compliance with safety, health and environmental requirements and standards, promoting continuous supervision and effective communication to guarantee that all activities are carried out under good practices.
- Protect the ecosystems by making rational use of resources, implementing circular economy strategies in the value chain of the operation, preventing pollution during the development of its activities, reducing and improving the management of waste generated.
- Prioritize the training of our human resources and workers, including employees on mission, developing the necessary competencies in occupational health and safety, ensuring that they are properly trained to maintain a safe and healthy work environment, following the best HSE practices.
Policy for the prevention and control of alcohol and psychoactive substance consumption
Version: 4; 2024
OVLSC-HSE-POL-002
ONGC Videsh Limited Colombian Branch is committed to ensuring that its workplaces are free of tobacco, alcohol and psychoactive drugs in accordance with Colombian legislation; Ensure a safe and healthy work environment for its workers, contractors, subcontractors, customers, and communities.
Therefore, a zero tolerance directive on alcohol consumption is established for all employees, contractors and visitors in the operating facilities. Any person who tests for alcohol with a result greater than zero is strictly prohibited from entering or remaining in these areas.
In order to comply with this policy, ONGC Videsh Limited Sucursal Colombiana undertakes to:
- Promote healthy lifestyles by carrying out campaigns to prevent the consumption of alcohol, tobacco and psychoactive substances in order to contribute to the good health and well-being of its employees and stakeholders.
- Comply with all applicable legal requirements for the prevention and control of the consumption of tobacco, alcohol, and psychoactive substances.
- Promote awareness of the risks involved in the use of tobacco, alcohol, and other psychoactive substances.
- Guarantee spaces free of tobacco smoke, in compliance with Colombian regulations.
- ONGC Videsh Ltda. Colombian Branch Prohibits the entry of any person, worker, contractor, supplier or visitor who is under the influence of alcoholic beverages and psychoactive substances to its facilities or those under its control.
- ONGC Videsh Ltda. Sucursal Colombiana reserves the right to monitor, through random tests directly or through third parties, the consumption of alcohol and psychoactive substances in its workers and contractors.
- ONGC-VL is aware that a person who is under the influence of alcohol and/or psychoactive substances, threatens their own health and safety, that of their colleagues and production, which is why the possession, distribution, consumption and/or sale of psychoactive or hallucinogenic substances, alcoholic beverages and tobacco within the workplace and/or during working hours is categorically prohibited.
- Failure to comply with this policy is considered a serious offense, generating disciplinary sanctions for workers who fail to comply with it, in accordance with the provisions of Colombian Legislation (Articles 58, 60 and 62 of the Substantive Labor Code).
Any disciplinary action by contractors or subcontractors towards their employees is the sole responsibility of the contractor in accordance with its internal work regulations.
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