Safety measures in Yamaguchi Operations

Safety Control Activities

Near Miss Activity

The Yamaguchi Operations are carrying out “Near Miss” exercises to increase sensitivity to the presence of danger. These Near Miss exercises are designed to heighten awareness so as to prevent accidents, fires and like before they happen. This involves first being acutely alert to danger, and then quickly facing it. By engaging in this series of exercises it is hoped that potential disasters will be nipped in the bud, and latent dangers will be averted. Yamaguchi Operations carries them out together with its regular trading partners, making the exercises an important tool in safety promotion.

The Near Miss System was introduced in April 2017, and since that time has been confirmed to have rapidly caught on company-wide, and is seen as having helped raise safety to the highest level to date. Near Miss exercises also involve assessments based on the frequency of accident occurrences and their reach. Risks that are considered to be especially high are discussed by the Safety and Hygiene Committee meetings, which forms part of the Labor-Management Council, and determinations that it makes to deal with the risk are put into action.

Characteristics

• Risk awareness requires not only experience, but a watchfulness by which focus is extended to even the smallest things so as to increase sensitivity to one’s surroundings.
• Near Miss awareness should be wide-ranging, extending to everything from tasks, to processes, equipment, quality, surroundings, traffic, office work, and more.
• Near Miss awareness is an exercise for all members of the Operations.
• ​Near Miss awareness activities are made easy for Operations staff to engage in, and this is achieved with initiatives such as giving commendations for annual number of Near Miss reports, Near Miss reports that led to improvements, and so on.
   

In-house comprehensive disaster-prevention activities

Yamaguchi Operations has established the self-disaster prevention department according to the Act on the Prevention of Disaster in Petroleum Industrial Complexes and Other Petroleum Facilities, and has also formed a joint disaster prevention department with neighboring business establishments for mutual aid and assistance. In addition, comprehensive disaster drills are conducted periodically toward establish a disaster prevention system by the self-disaster prevention department and learn disaster prevention activities.