Press Release: Multinational Serbian Energy Company Selects DEKRA Organizational Reliability to Help Improve Safety Culture
Aberdeen - February 28, 2018 - DEKRA Organizational Reliability, a global partner for a safe world, announced today a three year partnership with Naftna industrija Srbije (NIS), Serbia's largest multinational energy companies, to implement a new Health and Safety strategy based on cultural change.
DEKRA Organizational Reliability first began working with NIS in 2016 when they requested a
Culture of Care Diagnostic®
to assess their existing safety culture. The new, three year partnership will work to implement at the recommendations from the 2016 Diagnostic. The scope of work includes DEKRA Leadership Workshops, Frontline Worker Engagement Workshops, onsite coaching and a governance team.
"We are extremely pleased to continue our working partnership with NIS over the next three years," commented Derek Smith, Managing Director, DEKRA Organizational Reliability.
"Over the last few years we achieved a good level of HSE performance in NIS. The external assessment conducted by DEKRA, provided us an excellent understanding what areas of improvement we still have. To become best in class, we will over the next three years have a number of initiatives to improve the safety culture within our organization. External support by experts from the oil business and best industry examples provided by DEKRA and a strong commitment of our management for improvement will support us in this endeavor." says Ulrich Peball, Director HSE function NIS
Work is commencing immediately and will take place at multiple locations in Serbia from drilling sites, to gas terminal, oil refinery, petrol stations and tank farms.
About DEKRA Organizational Reliability Ltd.
DEKRA Organizational Reliability Ltd. is a behavioral change consultancy and business partner to businesses working in high hazard industries such as chemical, oil and gas, transportation, utilities, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, and agriculture companies. Using "care" as a catalyst we specialize in helping our clients to implement significant change and deliver Operational Excellence with safety at the core. Applying our knowledge and experience of Organizational Reliability and Organizational Safety we enable our clients to deliver their business to plan, without loss or harm to people, plant and productivity. We are a service unit of DEKRA SE, a global leader in safety since 1925 with over 39,000 employees in 50 countries.