The commitment of The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited (NGC) to strengthen the Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) standards and performance of its operations has been recognised by The American Chamber of Commerce of Trinidad and Tobago (AMCHAM). NGC took home top honours in the HSE Evolution category at AMCHAM’s 14th Annual National Excellence in HSE Awards, held on November 11th at the Hyatt Regency hotel, Port of Spain. The award category recognised changes made to fundamentally enhance the HSE system performance of the organisation in a transformational manner.
NGC adopted the risk-based process safety programme developed by the Centre for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS), a global non-profit organisation dedicated to the advancement of process safety knowledge and culture within and across organisations. NGC conducted an internal gap analysis in 2020 based on CCPS process safety elements, and took progressive steps towards closing the gaps identified. Among these were:
- Barrier Health inspections to verify the state of controls for high-risk activities
- Safely managing change in critical operations
- Mass notification in emergency response management
- Initial Incident Notifications (IINs) portal to improve real time incident reporting
- Improving asset integrity
- Use of satellites for methane leak detection and to complement Right of Way
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- Consistent process auditing.
- Increased cybersecurity training
- Fleet safety interventions and driver training
- Use of the Process Safety Knowledge Management (PSKM) vault
