SAIPEMLEADERSHIPIN HEALTH & SAFETY

WHY DID SAIPEM FEEL THE NEED FOR LEADERSHIP IN HEALTH & SAFETY?

Despite the fact that Saipem had goodsafety performance, it was recognisedthat people had been injured or worsewhilst working for Saipem, and this wasmorally unacceptable.

Our CEO was the one who drove thismessage, with the thought that somepeople have the wrong impression, thatSaipem expects its people to put theirlife at risk in order to save time ormoney.

This is simply not what is expected, andour CEO wanted to clarify this.

We also know that 90% of our accidentsare behaviourally related, so we have totarget these behaviours if we want toachieve the right culture… A culturethrough which working safely becomes aconstant; working unsafely becomesunforgivable.

HOW TO ACHIEVETHE RIGHT CULTURE?

Saipem believes that it is possible to instilthis culture through effective safetyleadership, as it’s our leaders who buildand shape the culture we have, throughtheir everyday messages, decisions,actions, and inactions!

Therefore, Saipem set up a task forcewith the aim to create a Leadership inHealth & Safety program tailored to ourown operating realities and challenges,targeting the leaders who have impacton the culture of our organisation today.

Saipem researched Leadership in Health& Safety and developed internally itsown program. A program to touchminds, but hit the heart!

As part of the program, a workshop was designed and disseminated with atop-down strategy throughout theorganisation.

The first Lihs workshops began with thesenior levels of Saipem and were held inMilan with the Business Units directorsand managers.They then became sponsors in their owngeographical areas, requesting andopening each workshop.

And the process continues globally,through every level of management,driving, sponsoring, empowering andsupporting the next levels. Aftereighteen months over 200 workshopswere organised with more than 3000participants.

Workshops are delivered by a pool of 20Saipem HSE Professionals, developedinternally as LiS Workshop Facilitators.

THE LEADERSHIP IN HEALTH& SAFETY PROCESS

THE AWARDS

Du Pont Safety Award 2008 - Cultural Evolution

International Visual Commutation Association Silver Award 2008 - Best Practical Training

International Visual Commutation Association Bronze Award 2008 - Best Script

Rome International Short-Films Festival 2008 Best Industrial Film – Safe Work

New York Film and Video Awards 2009 Silver World Medal - Best Director

New York Film and Video Awards 2009 Bronze World Medal - Best Industrial Film

SPE Int. Conference on HSE 2010Knowledge Sharing Award

Saipem Leadership in Health & Safety and theFilm “The Safer, The Better” have beeninternationally recognized with the followingawards:

Saipem Leadership in Health & Safetyhas been strategically developed froma corporate level to disseminatethrough the entire organization.The program was initiated from thevery top, with Saipem’s CEO andManaging Director playing the role ofcatalysts for the project, as theypersonally recognized the need for acultural change.

The CEO gained commitment for theproject from his most seniormanagement levels through a one dayevent held in Milan, when the SaipemSafety Vision was created.

A clearly defined top down approachenables each level of management tobecome safety ambassadors. Givingsponsorship to the next levels in order

to touch every manager within theorganization, by delivering keymessages down to every employee.

This is done in three distinct phases.

Phase 1 – Delivery of Leadership in Health & Safety workshop to allmanagement levels.

Phase 2 - Senior Managers cascadingthe key Leadership in Health & Safetymessages to the entire workforcethrough high influential events.

Phase 3 - Delivery of the Five StarsIntervention training tool throughoutthe organisation.

MAIN FEATURES OF THE SAIPEM LEADERSHIP IN HEALTH & SAFETY WORKSHOP

Saipem Safety Vision.The Saipem Safety Vision was bornwhen the CEO called his most seniorleaders in Milan to develop a visionfor Saipem’s safe future.It was designed to be a vision specificto Saipem, and for everyone toembrace, a target for us all to worktowards.A vision of a multicultural and frontiercompany where we are winnersthrough a passion for safety.

Safety Leadership Expectations.Safety leadership expectations are thebackbone of safety leadership inSaipem.A set of competencies, what Saipemexpects of its managers and leaders.Developed through Internal research,there are 7 main areas of expectation.Each area has sub elements, totaling69 specific actions, activities andbehaviours, defining what is expectedof a mature safety leader in Saipemtoday.

Safety Leadership Profiler.The profiler is an online questionnairewhich provides individuals withpersonal feedback on theirdistribution of focus over the sevensafety leadership expectations.Each question forces a choice ofpreferences, to give a trend of focusrepresented in the report. It allowsindividuals to develop personal actionplans, targeting areas of improvementfor future self development.

Five Stars – Safety Intervention Tool.Saipem created a simple 5 steps toolto help our employees interveneeffectively without creating conflict,both on unsafe acts and to reinforcesafe behaviors.It is a tool which will be disseminatedthroughout the organization tonormalize intervention.

The Film – The Safer The Better.Each of the workshops interactivelearning sessions are prompted byscenes from the Lihs film. Thisintelinked media tool brings strongmessages from the CEO to the targetaudience. It reflects Saipem people,operating environments, and the storyis both engaging and heart hitting.

Contact the Leadership in Health &Safety development team at lihs@saipem.com

SAIPEM HEALTH & SAFETY VISIONOur commitment for a safer and better future

LEADERSHIP IN HEALTH & SAFETY

The safer, the betterOur Vision for Saipem is to be “winners through passion for safety”

multicultural company, where thousands areunited by a passion for safety and healthtransparent company, where everyone is asafety leader, everyone speaks up for safetyand everyone’s voice is heardfrontier company, where people keep safe and well while working on tasks that rangefrom the routine to the extremeinnovative company, where safety is a wayof life, not just a procedure company that is better because it is safer

“The safer we become, the more efficient webecome… so literally the safer the better”.

People, ideas, energy.

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Saipem S.p.A. - Via Martiri di Cefalonia, 67 - 20097 San Donato Milanese, Milan - Italy - Tel. +39.02.520.1 - Fax +39.02.520.34617saipem.com - A subsidiary of Eni S.p.A.

Fur further information about the Leadership in Health & Safety program, please contact the LiS Development Team at lihs@saipem.com