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.

In 2021, under the Healthy China 2030 Initiative, the company issued the Measures for Occupational Health and Employee Health Management and the Measures for Employee Physical Examination Management, held the Occupational Disease Prevention Law Awareness Week and implemented organization-wide occupational health monitoring. In 2021, 100% of our employees received occupational physical examinations, the screening rate of workplace occupational hazard was 99.92%, and occupational health records were prepared for 100% of our employees.

We give priority to improving occupational health of our employees. In 2022, the Company issued the Guidance on Employee Health Management and held the event of the Occupational Disease Prevention Law Awareness Week. In 2022, more than 99.31% of employees received occupational physical examinations, and the screening rate of occupational hazard factors reached 100%. Occupational health files were prepared for 100% of our employees.

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).

The psychological hotline provided services for a total of over 1,228 hours in 2021.

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.