We prioritise the well-being of our employees, partners and communities by maintaining rigorous health and safety standards while fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement
Our approach
Our ambition in the second pillar of our sustainability strategy is to continuously prioritise and improve upon the safety and security of our workplace. We safeguard the health and wellbeing of everyone on our sites, including our employees, contractors, suppliers and visitors. From a security point of view, we also protect the integrity of all aspects of our operations. We strongly believe this is critical to the ongoing success of Savannah’s operations, activities and projects, and also to safeguard human rights.
We continue to develop global health and safety, environment and security management systems that create a robust compliance environment with policies, procedures, systems and controls aimed at embedding a positive safety culture inside and outside our Company. This allows us to measure, mitigate and/or minimise our health and safety, environmental and security risks, and learn from accidents, incidents and near misses. Led by Arthur de Fautereau, our Chief Operating Officer, we continuously refresh our training and development opportunities to reinforce our commitment to an injury-free working environment for our employees, contractors, suppliers and visitors.
Prioritising security
Savannah’s focus has been on enhancing security over all our assets, with our employees being the priority. Robust journey management systems have been implemented to enhance the safety of personnel during transit and whilst working on projects, reducing potential risks.
At Savannah we are mindful that certain procedures and security protocols that work in one country of operations do not necessarily apply in others where we operate. To account for this, our local Asset Protection Teams are empowered to continually develop, evolve and pressure test their procedures. We use information services to track security developments and also continually engage with local communities and host governments. This is to ensure all our staff, organisational assets and systems remain uncompromised for the delivery of effective safe and secure operations.
Human rights
By adhering to the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights, we ensure that our operations align with internationally recognised standards. Savannah has a stringent set of policies, regulations and work practices, underpinned by our Human Rights Policy and our Code of Ethics.
Our annual reporting metrics
- LTIR.
- TRIR.
- Number of fatalities.
- Number of security incidents.
- Number of transport incidents.
- Total length of journeys safely managed.
- RTAR.
- Health, safety and environment training hours.
2024 performance
- Our LTIR was zero per 200,000 working hours (2023: zero).
- Our TRIR was zero per 200,000 working hours (2023: zero).
- There were zero fatalities (2023: zero).
- We recorded four security incidents (2023: 10).
- We covered 1.46 million km with zero transport-related incidents (2023: two in 1.42 million km).
- Our RTAR was zero (2023: 0.28).
- We delivered 13,891 Health, Safety and Environment training hours in 2024 (2023: 4,988).
- We continued to act in accordance with internationally recognised human rights standards.
2025 objectives
- Safely deliver the planned drilling programme in Nigeria without incident or environmental damage.
- Progress our R3 East oil development project in Niger complying with all international safety standards.
- Safely complete the Uquo compression project.
- Allocate sufficient time and resources to HSE training and driver enhancement.
Continue to encourage the timely reporting of hazard observation cards and ensure all near misses are investigated.
