We lead with safety
We take a “safe work always” approach that is rooted in the belief that all injuries and incidents are preventable.
Start Work Safely Authorization
Our worksites are complex and dynamic. The start work safe authorization process is designed to help ensure everyone involved in a job understands their scope of work, the hazards associated with that scope and the procedures in place to make sure the job is executed safely.
Integrate Safety into Commercial Processes
We want to partner with service providers whose safety culture aligns with ours. We are continually working to build clear systems and processes that ensure safety considerations are integrated into service provider selection, onboarding and performance management. Our service providers are critical to our operations, and we prioritize their safety.
Safety Leadership Development
Everyone is a safety leader, no matter their role. We have developed a comprehensive safety competency development program tailored to employees’ roles and custom-built to the type of safe decision making that is necessary for their work. Safety leadership is learned and we are committed to providing safety leadership competency development to all staff.
Embed One Safety Culture
We have a deep-rooted safety culture at Ovintiv. Our executive leadership remains committed to reaffirming, reinvigorating, and reinforcing this culture, driving consistency through all of our areas of operation and teams. Our people are united in upholding one company-wide safety standard.
In 2021, Ovintiv’s Canadian Operations Facilities Engineering and Construction (FEC) team reached a significant three-year milestone of zero recordable safety incidents. Over the three-year period, the team executed a construction program that erected facilities for 338 wells, installed 239 miles of pipeline and constructed a large sour gas processing plant, the Pipestone Processing Facility. These projects totaled over six million exposure hours without a recordable injury. This is equivalent to 1,000 people, working full time, for three years.