Our corporate Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Management System Standard helps ensure that business activities are consistently conducted in a safe, healthy, environmentally and socially responsible manner across the globe. The standard outlines requirements for implementing the company's HSE Policy, leadership expectations and SPIRIT Values. Individual sections of the standard combine to provide a continuous improvement process based on plan, do, assess and adjust. Our corporate standard aligns with and is based on industry standards such as ISO 45001, ISO 14001 and ISO 9001.

In accordance with the corporate standard, each BU implements a BU-specific HSE Management System to meet requirements outlined in the global standard and assess and manage local regulatory requirements and operational risks to the business, employees, contractors, stakeholders and the environment.

All BUs and functions periodically review their HSE management systems against the corporate standard and are responsible for integrating HSE and sustainability issues into day-to-day operations, project development and decision making. They analyze current status, identify areas for potential improvement, and then implement key activities to reduce risk and further improve HSE performance. They are held accountable through an annual performance assessment.

Objectives and key performance targets are set and tracked annually to drive strong, leading HSE performance. Progress is tracked and reported to our Executive Leadership Team and the Board of Directors.

Corporate HSE audits manage and maintain a process to provide an independent, objective and consistent assessment for global company-wide operations conformance with ConocoPhillips HSE policies and standards, including the ConocoPhillips global Health, Safety and Environment policy. BUs have additional auditing processes to provide an assessment of compliance with applicable HSE and legal requirements. Corrective actions and status from audits and other risk-improvement efforts are annually reported through a process designed to ensure timely resolution and communication through all levels of company management.

Read more about our Sustainable Development risk management process.