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Dedicated to Health and Safety
Pengrowth continued to show progress in the area of health and safety in 2008. This was accomplished through the development of clear goals and initiatives and by actively involving our team members and contractors in the process. We remain committed to protecting the health and safety of our team members, our neighbours and the general public by focusing on key safety management system elements.
To ensure compliance and ongoing improvement in our safety program, an internal audit of Pengrowth’s safety management system was conducted in the fourth quarter of 2008. The audit was a maintenance requirement of our Alberta Partnerships Certificate of Recognition program and is designed to ensure that our safety management system continues to function as intended. Safety opportunities identified from the audit will be the focus of our ongoing continuous improvement work in 2009.

Emergency response preparedness continues to be primary for Pengrowth. Safety for both team members and the public is maintained by ensuring that emergency response plans are in place and updated regularly. Most importantly, ongoing emergency response exercises and drills are conducted with area operations, leadership and regulatory agencies in order to ensure that personnel understand their responsibilities in the case of an unplanned event.

Ensuring our team members have access to the most current information related to critical work procedures is a major component of our safety management system and contributes to team member competence in performing designated tasks.

Ongoing safety training also helps ensure that our team members have the skills they need to work safely. In 2008 we provided our supervisors and managers with incident investigation training, giving them the necessary tools to conduct an effective investigation. Conducting a thorough incident investigation and implementing effective actions to prevent reoccurrence is the key to effective incident management. As driving is one of the highest risk activities we perform, our driving behaviour and our hands-on training programs were initiated in 2008 and will continue in 2009.

For the benefit of our contractors, we continued to implement safety forums in our operational areas, in 2008. The theme of our 2008 safety forums was Safety Leadership which encouraged all owners and supervisors to take an active role in team member safety and raising awareness. The forums also allowed for safety information sharing and providing contractors with any required changes to our work practices, procedures and standards.

Success in managing health and safety is dependent on engaging our team members and contractors in the process and raising their safety awareness. We will continue to implement the recommendations identified from our internal audits and from the feedback received from all team members involved in our operations.

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