OREANDA-NEWS. A supervisory audit of the integrated management system (IMS) of industrial safety, occupational health and environment control for compliance with international standards ISO 14001:2004 and OHSAS 18001:2007 was successfully completed at PJSC TATNEFT.

The audit results were announced at the final meeting with the representatives of the structural divisions, departments, offices of the Company and experts of JSC "Bureau Veritas Certification Rus".

The auditors visited the production sites of the NGDU "Almetyevneft" and   Bugulma Mechanical Plant, visited the Department of Industrial Safety and Labor Protection, Technological Office for Corrosion Control and Protection of Nature, Production Department, as well as other departments and services of the Company's executive management establishment. 

The audit team assessed the statement of the work with risks and dangers at the production sites and the ability to manage them. The normative documents of the Public Joint Stock Company and personnel practices in risk analysis were checked, in particular, bringing the results to the senior management.

The auditors made a point of the TATNEFT's dynamic development and updating of the Company's standards specifying such strong points of the ISM, as: the management and personnel competence in the operation of the integrated management system, effective environmental performance of the management programs, comprehensive study-based projects implementation. The implemented innovations include the electronic documents flow, video recording of certain operations, GPS-navigation, application of the automated system for industrial control.

Based on the complete analysis of the PJSC TATNEFT's IMS operation the auditors delivered a positive opinion. The Integrated Management System of industrial safety, occupational health and environment control of the audited TATNEFT's divisions has been developed, introduced and is maintained in accordance with the requirements of the audited standards.

The Integrated Management System was first certified at TATNEFT Company in 2006 and it goes through the recertification procedure every three years. In between the compliance audits both internal and external oversight audits were arranged contributing to the improvement of the IMS and increasing the staff competence in this area.