safety and health management

ExxonMobil is committed to conducting our business in a manner that protects the safety and health of our employees, contractors, customers, and the public. We strive for an incident-free workplace and have set a global safety and health goal of zero injuries and illnesses. We believe that our commitment to safe, secure, and incident-free operations will contribute to improved operations reliability, lower costs, and higher productivity.

Our company-wide Operations Integrity Management System(OIMS) helps us implement our policies for managing safety, health, and environmental risks. It is our primary tool for managing both personnel and process safety. OIMS meets the requirement of the international occupational health and safety management system specification (OHSAS 18001:1999). Through OIMS, our work processes are clearly described, risks are identified and mitigated, critical procedures are developed, and workforce responsibilities are defined.

To meet OIMS expectations for risk management, each operating site is expected to follow up and investigate incidents, including “near misses,” to identify root causes and contributing factors. In addition, sites determine actions needed to reduce the risk of similar incidents and implement changes to prevent recurrence.

Our approach to safety and health management is yielding results, but we will not be satisfied until we have achieved a work environment in which Nobody Gets Hurt — our unifying goal. Our employee and contractor workforce lost-time incident rate is industry leading. In 2007, we achieved new record-low employee incident rates of 0.32 recordable incidents and 0.046 lost-time incidents per 200,000 work hours. There were no employee fatalities, but we are saddened to report that we had eight contractor fatalities in 2007. These fatalities were the result of operating incidents (six) and third-party acts of violence (two).