To maintain our performance over the long term, we are striving to develop a solid corporate safety culture.

A safety behavior guideline was issued in late 2004 to encourage individual employees to embrace this culture and to strengthen the commitment of management. Now available to all operational managers, dedicated HSE training programs facilitate experience sharing on both technical and HR matters.

A shared safety culture is gradually developing in all areas:

• To further enhance technological risk management, Group units are harmonizing their indicators and technical standards. Management meetings are becoming more widespread to validate serious industrial accident reports and near-miss analyses.
• To continue to improve operational risk management, safety tours have become a common practice in most units. The Cray Valley resin business has Leadership Tours, Petrochemicals has Senior Tours and at Refining & Marketing safety tours are conducted by members of the Management Committee every two years. This type of presence in the field is encouraged across the management chain at all of our subsidiaries.
• Since road transportation safety is not only the responsibility of drivers, management's organization of trips and rounds has also been reviewed. Initiatives include route optimization, the installation of event data recorders in vehicles and risk analyses for routes that pose specific problems.

Our managers constantly demonstrate their commitment to setting a good example in order to motivate their teams. Pursuing this approach is the only way we will succeed in lowering the risk tolerance level—a key factor in disseminating a strong safety culture across Total.

Corporate HSE Training Programs for Senior Managers (number of participants per year)