Contractor Safety

The Company has formulated policies, such as the Sinopec Contractor Safety Supervision Management Measures, the Sinopec Regulations on the Management of Construction and Maintenance Contractors, and the Sinopec Management Measures for Training and Assessment of Contractor Project Personnel, to specify the detailed safety supervision and management requirements for various operation procedures, such as contractor admission, bidding, qualification review, contract signing, process control, supervision and inspection, and evaluation. Meanwhile, the Company also specifies the HSE supervision requirements for contractors in a relevant policies and systems, such as the Sinopec HSSE Inspection Supervision Management Regulations, the Sinopec All-employee Safety Behaviour Norms, the Sinopec Allemployee Safety Scoring Management Measures (Trial), the Sinopec Management Regulations for Safety Production Accidents, the Sinopec Occupational Health Management Measures, and the Sinopec Safety Production Education and Training Management Measures. In addition, the Company has established a safety performance process evaluation mechanism that with regular quantitative evaluations of the safety management performance of contractors of its subsidiaries, with evaluation results reported to the subsidiaries.

In 2024, the Company revised the Sinopec Contractor Safety Supervision Management Measures, requiring its subsidiaries to formulate detailed rules for contractor safety assessment with specific penalties for violations. The Company implements a shared contractor "blacklist" mechanism among its subsidiaries. All subsidiaries have access to the shared blacklist of contractors and contractor personnel. Since the launch of shared blacklist platform July 2024, information on the violations of 131 contractors has been shared, with 79 contractors and 612 individuals blacklisted, initially achieving company-wide sharing of blacklisted contractors.

In 2024, the Company carried out the annal HES inspection and comprehensively reviewed the safety management of suppliers in ten aspects, including management system, qualification review, contract management, site management, construction plans, and process control. The Company has implemented the "Targeted Rectification Campaign on Contractor and Construction Operation Safety", effectively prevent the occurrence of violations in high-risk operations by continuously enhancing contractors' compliance management, safety awareness and capabilities, as well as standardised management of construction operations.