We focus on protecting the safety and health of people and the environment and conducting our operations reliably and efficiently. The systematic management of process safety, personal safety, health, the environment, reliability and efficiency to achieve world-class performance is how we define Operational Excellence.
To achieve Operational Excellence (OE), we created an Operational Excellence Management System (OEMS) more than a decade ago. It's part of our culture at all levels of our business. OEMS helps us identify, manage and reduce risk; improve performance; assure compliance; and sharpen our emergency response. It is a system that sets expectations for nearly everything we do operationally and goes beyond the scope of internationally recognized management systems for environmental as well as occupational health and safety (ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001).
Our OEMS Tenets of Operation guide our workforce's daily decisions and activities. These tenets are founded on two key principles: "Do it safely or not at all" and "There is always time to do it right." For example, every person working at a Chevron facility has the authority and responsibility to stop work when witnessing any unsafe action or condition. Our goal is to have incident-free operations so that people remain safe and the environment is protected.
We strive to achieve Operational Excellence through our processes, standards and behavior with leadership action and the full involvement of our workforce. We are among the leaders in our industry in preventing incidents and injuries, as measured by the Total Recordable Incident Rate and the Days Away From Work Rate. Our OE platform provides us with a way to sustain high expectations and continual improvement.
Updated: May 2012