We care for the lives of our employees and pay great attention to their health. We have issued a series of policies and taken effective measures to improve our healthcare system, in order to offer employees a healthy and pleasant working environment.
Occupational Health
We ensure the occupational health of our employees through an integrated, prevention-oriented approach encompassing infrastructure development, occupational health checks, and improved health management and services in line with the Law of the People's Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Occupational Diseases. We provide the same health and labor protection for temporary employees, contract employees and contractor's employees. We have carried out research on occupational health management, consolidated the health management on production frontlines, especially at field construction sites, and enhanced the risk prevention and control regarding occupational disease hazards and health monitoring.
As an oil and gas player, we identify job-related occupational hazards in our particular operational environment, maintain strict controls on sites with hazardous operations, strengthen the monitoring of occupational health and occupational disease hazards, improve the environment of construction operations, and provide health training for corporate executives, project managers and key technicians, in order to improve their professional skills and awareness of health risks.
We give priority to improving occupational health of our employees. We held the publicity week of the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Occupational Diseases among other efforts to build a health-caring enterprise.
In 2024, the occupational health examination rate reached 100%, the screening rate of occupational hazard factors reached 100%, and the coverage of occupational health records was 100%.
Psychological Health
CNPC attaches importance to employees' mental health and includes employees' mental health management into its daily management package.
We implement the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), operate a hotline and a website for psychological counseling, and carry out various forms of training on mental health knowledge, in order to guide the employees to build a positive and healthy mindset. In 2016, the first stress debriefing clinic under CNPC's EAP program was opened to provide mental health services for overseas employees and their families. The company was granted the EAP Quality Award 2016 by the Employee Assistance Professionals Association (EAPA).
Overseas Employees' Health
With regard to employee health at our overseas projects, we have issued the Guide to Occupational Health Management for Overseas Employees. A complete employee healthcare network has been established in most of the host countries where we operate.
To improve the health of our employees at our overseas projects, we continue to improve mechanisms for healthcare and take action to prevent and control diseases pursuant to the local environment and medical availability. Based on the climate and healthcare conditions in host countries, we provide healthcare services including disease prevention, dietary hygiene and psychological counseling. As overseas employees usually work in remote areas with limited medical facilities and tough living conditions, we have developed a routine work shift system for overseas employees, and flexibly arrange their vacations back in China in order to ensure their physical and mental health. We implement mental health service projects overseas to improve employees' mental health, and assign psychologists to Kazakhstan, Brazil, Peru and some other countries to provide mental health consultation services to show our care for their mental health.
Personnel safety has always been an overriding priority in our operations. We constantly reinforce the operation of the social security management system, fully strengthen social security risk prevention and control, and continuously enhance emergency response capabilities.
Overseas EAP results in 2024
·Overseas counseling hotline: 1,000 hours, 950 counseling cases, 1 crisis case.
·Overseas mental health assessment for more than 4,600 person-times, including visit, interview.