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SAFETY, HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT, 2001 9
SafetyPEMEX has achieved significant advances in the
strengthening of industrial safety, as reflected by
the frequency and severity indexes’ downtrend
of the last 6 years. The following are the results
reported in 2001:
• PEMEX’s overall frequency index dropped
17% compared to 2000 (from 1.19 to 1), while
the severity index decreased by 38% (from 170
to 106).
• These figures reveal a substantial contraction;
there was only one disabling accident per more
than 1 million hours worked (1,007,561 man-
hours), which represents a 20% increase in
hours worked per disabling accident compared
to 2000.
• Although statistics show advances, in 2001 PE-
MEX underwent five fatal work accidents.
• Petróleos Mexicanos is executing a deep
technical analysis of each of these accidents to
ascertain their cause, studying all the elements
that can help determine the conditions in which
they occurred in order to take the necessary
measures to prevent future similar accidents.
The safety performance of all the PEMEX
subsidiaries during 2001 compared to the
previous year is shown below:
Pemex Exploración y Producción. Although
it experienced three fatal accidents, its severity
index dropped 44% and its frequency index
fell 26%.
Pemex Refinación. In December, an accident
of considerable dimensions occurred in the Tula
refinery in Hidalgo. However, its severity and
frequency indexes declined, respectively, 33% and
4%, with which it remains as one of the subsidiaries
with the lowest indexes (0.69 frequency and 85
severity).
Pemex Gas y Petroquímica Básica. It has
reported no fatal accidents for the second
consecutive year and its frequency index (0.50,
or a 44% decrease from the previous year)
remains Petróleos Mexicanos’s best. Its severity
index fell from 109 to 88, a 19% reduction.
Pemex Petroquímica. 2001 has been this
subsidiary’s best year in terms of safety. Its
frequency index dropped 50% (from 1.06 to
0.53) and its severity index declined 51% (from
170 to 84), obtaining Petróleos Mexicanos’s
greatest reduction in both indexes.
SAFETY
SAFETY, HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT, 2001 9
CASE: REINFORCEMENT OF A CULTURE OF SAFETY IN PEMEX• The company carried out a campaign that included training of floor supervisors and diffusion of postersdescribing the Executive Tower’s risk circumstances and safety features, and five partial emergency drillsfor explosion, fire, and care of injured individuals for an integral management of emergencies.
• The Petróleos Mexicanos Mixed Group for the Coordination of Local Mixed Safety and HygieneCommissions (GMC) operated according to the contractual commitments for the 1999-2001 period.Its function is to coordinate representatives from the Medical Services Sub-Direction, the AdministrativeCenter’s Integrated Services Unit and the Telecommunications Engineering Management —members ofthe GMC.
• Two integral fire evacuation drills were carried out, one at the Coatzacoalcos CENDI and the other atthe Nanchital CENDI.
10 PETRÓLEOS MEXICANOS
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19971998
1999
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19992000
2001
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19981999
2000
2001
1996
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19992000
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19961997
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20002001
1996
19971998
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20011.00
4.92
3.96
2.68
1.39
1.19
477
307
325
180
170
106
1.86
3.11
2.05
1.84
1.25
1.49
197
38
69
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32
53
0.53
2.33
2.31
1.48
1.92
1.06
326
152
175
173
170
84
0.50
4.86
1.04
0.50
0.55
0.90
1,004
224
327
118
109
88
9.04
7.48
4.66
1.76
1.66
0.69
2.70
2.59
1.92
1.08
0.72
1.26
702
572
436
180
277
155
302
229
350
253
126
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aSome indexes’ variations from the 2000 report are due toimprovements on the subsidiaries’ databases, including the recentevaluation of partially or permanently disabling accidents which, insome cases, are determined up to two years after they happen.
Accident indexes1996-2001a
F r e q u e n c y Year S e v e r i t y
Pemex Gas y Petroquímica Básica
Pemex Exploración y Producción
Pemex Refinación
Pemex Petroquímica
Petróleos Mexicanos
PEMEX Corporativo
PEMEX Corporativo. Although not
performing industrial activities , corporate
personnel are also exposed to accidents. In 2001,
its frequency and severity indexes rose 25% (1.49
to 1.86) and 66% (32 to 53).
Contractors. In its safety improvement process,
Petróleos Mexicanos continues performing follow-
up on contractors’ safety. In 2001, the contractors’
frequency index rose 37% compared to 2000,
from 1.8 to 2.47.
Petróleos Mexicanos’s safety results in 2001 allow
us to reach two important conclusions:
• The Industrial Safety and Environmental
Protection Management Systems (SIASPA and
PROSSPA) have been successful, achieving
substantial improvements on the accident
indexes and on PEMEX’s overall safety culture.
• The unfortunate personal and industrial
accidents, such as the Tula refinery’s, indicate that
efforts at all levels must be maintained and that
actions to intensify the implementation of SIPA
Management Systems to safeguard personnel
and facilities safety must continue.
SAFETY, HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT, 2001 11
RegulationsPEMEX must comply with the Federal Metrology
and Standardization Law —particularly with the
Mexican Official Standards (NOM). According to
this Law, it must issue guidelines for the acquisition,
lease and contract of goods and services.
The Petróleos Mexicanos and Subsidiary
Organizations Standardization Committee was
created in October 1998; in 2001 it issued 19
guidelines that can be consulted at
www.pemex.com, as well as 46 projects for
standards that will become operative in 2002.
Guidelines help suppliers, contractors and other
purveyors of goods and services to comply with
official requirements , in addition to those
determined by the company. They provide a legal
framework in which representatives of the
domestic and international industry participate and
they cover the public consultation requisite
established by law.
PEMEX participates in 14 National Standardization
Consulting Committees and in the teams that
create and review the Mexican Official Standards.
During the First Seminar on Standardization and
Conformity, held in Mexico City in November
2001, the standardization advances on conformity
evaluation and third party certification were
analyzed. As a result of this seminar, the
Committee agreed to hold the First National
Crusade for Standardization and Conformity
Evaluation in PEMEX and its subsidiaries in 2002.
One of SIASPA’s objectives is to provide the PE-
MEX work centers with a complete and updated
standardization framework. To achieve this, the
Corporate Standards Library —which has 22
collections of international regulations available for
consultation— was created.
In addition, general Safety, Environmental
Protection, Quality, Civil Protection and
Occupational Health guidelines have been issued
to prevent risks during the design, construction,
operation, survey, maintenance and decommissioning
of company facilities.
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