Promoting Road Safety

Road safety is an important issue, not only for our company, but also for many of the countries where we operate.

In 2006, we revised the type of data collected on motor vehicle incidents to align with the International Association of Oil & Gas Producers' new classification system. This change enables us to more consistently classify and understand the cause of the most serious work-related incidents and compare our performance with others in the industry. Over the past five years, workforce fatalities related to motor vehicle incidents have decreased by 90 percent across our operations.

We continue to work with governments, nongovernmental organizations and the private sector to expand and strengthen Arrive Alive, a road safety initiative designed to eliminate traffic-related fatalities and injuries among employees, contractors and members of the communities in which we operate. Arrive Alive programs in Guatemala, Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda began implementing road safety action plans in 2006 that included helping establish or joining nonprofit organizations to promote road safety.

In addition to this effort, Chevron and its partners are identifying other activities to promote road safety, including:

• Providing road safety education in schools and through the media.
• Assisting government enforcement agencies with sharing best practices from other countries; our health, environment and safety group; and partner organizations.
• Assisting these same government agencies to promote compliance with existing traffic laws by providing expertise and nonmonetary resources, such as helping identify appropriate systems and equipment that can include signage, radar guns and Breathalyzer® devices.