Tokuyama Complex | Safety Initiatives

Prioritize safety measures 保安管理方針特定要求事項防災設備安全活動

Safety measures at Complex not only help maintain smooth production activities, but are also a major factor in determining international competitiveness. Furthermore, accidents that cause inconvenience to the local community must never occur. At Idemitsu Kosan, safety and maintenance personnel work together to ensure accident-free operations. All equipment that operates without rest is periodically shut down and every single pipe is inspected for malfunctions or abnormalities. In addition, each Complex has its own fire engine, and regular training is conducted in preparation for any emergency.

Prioritize safety measures

At Idemitsu Kosan, we recognize that ensuring safety is fundamental to our business, and we are committed to ensuring safety throughout the entire company.
At Complex, we operate under the principle of "safety first," steadily implementing change management and risk assessments for personnel, equipment, and systems. We strive to improve safety from multiple perspectives, including preventing equipment troubles through management that takes equipment deterioration into consideration, and implementing measures to prevent operational errors that take human factors into account.

Security management policy

From April 1, 2006, we began operating a security management system based on the "Security Management Regulations" with the aim of ensuring the safe operation of Complex and the safety of our employees, as well as maintaining and improving the level of security. Did.
Security means preventing accidents and malfunctions, preventing the spread of disasters, and preventing health problems, minimizing damage to people and property, and ensuring the safety of workers in Complex and the public.
Security management refers to the formulation, implementation, evaluation, and improvement of plans to ensure security based on security management policies.
A security management system is a system that establishes security management policies and security management goals in order to promote security management activities, and continuously formulates, implements, evaluates, and improves security management plans in order to achieve them. This mechanism includes ensuring that the structures, responsibilities, procedures and Resources (human resources, budget, materials and expertise) are in place to establish, implement, achieve, review and maintain the security management policy.

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Specific requirements

The specific requirements of this Complex are defined in the safety management regulations and are communicated to employees who carry out safety management activities in the Safety and Disaster Prevention Committee, Safety Council, etc.

Definition (Security Management Regulations Article 3)

This refers to the High Pressure Gas Safety Act and the orders thereunder, as well as requirements that our Complex specifies itself. Note that self-specified requirements refer to these regulations and related regulations.

Related laws and regulations

High-Pressure Gas Safety Act, Industrial Safety and Health Act, Fire Service Act, Petroleum Complex Disaster Prevention Act, Poisonous and Deleterious Substances Control Act, Act on Regulation of Radioactive Isotopes, Shunan City Fire Prevention Ordinance, Electricity Business Act, Measurement Act, Building Standards Act

Related regulations

Special regulations
Safety Management Regulations, High-Pressure Gas Certification Safety Inspection Regulations, High-Pressure Gas Certification Completion Inspection Regulations, Continuous Operation Evaluation Regulations, Hazard Prevention Regulations, Safety Education Plan, Prevention Regulations, Disaster Prevention Regulations, Firefighting Plan, Radiation Hazard Prevention Regulations
Outline
Complex operation guidelines
Rules
Work Rules for Partner Companies

Disaster prevention equipment

fire engine	6 units
fire pump	11 units
Oil fence (B type)	3,520m

safety activities

Security capability evaluation by a third party

Since 2017, the Tokuyama Complex has undergone a third-party assessment, the Safety Competency (Safety Infrastructure and Safety Culture) Assessment, conducted by the Safety Competency Improvement Center of the Japan Society for Safety Engineering.
In the February 2023 results, we received high marks for achieving or exceeding the standard level in each evaluation category for "safety foundation" and "safety culture," in recognition of the success of our ongoing efforts to establish a safety management system, including risk assessment, as well as the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of plans, and our ongoing improvement activities.
On the other hand, we have received advice and insights on several items, which we have identified as areas for improvement at our Complex and are working to implement improvements in a planned manner.