About us Fleet Safety & Quality Investor Relations Contact Home Safety & Quality The main objective of Awilco LNG quality activities is the satisfaction of our customers. Awilco LNG will attain and maintain a level of quality to the best in the business, ensuring that our customers are satisfied with our performance through: application of international standards for quality and safety, including those of ISO and ISM, or as relevant for the respective service activity employment of professional staff members and training in all areas of responsibility keeping updated on the development of business areas using efficient form of communication and information available, regular review of and updating of internal and external codes and procedures to ascertain full compliance with quality requirements in standards and contracts. To ensure this, the Company has established the following Statements, Goals and Objectives: Mission Statement: Awilco LNGs mission is: “Marine Transportation through Safety and Environmental Excellence”. Company’s goals and objectives: Awilco LNG’s main goal is a safe and efficient ship operation with no accidents, personal injury, environmental damage or damage to equipment. These goals will enable the company to achieve and maintain the highest standard of safe operation, meeting all environmental protection requirements and manage safe custody of our vessels, owner’s interests and customers’ cargoes and thus make Awilco LNG the shipping company of choice. To achieve these goals Awilco LNG has identified some core objectives that describe our focus and our continous improvement process: Safeguarding of our people, ships and cargoes: All ships shall be operated well maintained and safe for crew, visitors, cargo and the environment. The Company’s quality operations are supported by an experienced, educated and well trained staff onboard and ashore. The Company shall adhere to national and international laws and regulations and constantly promote “best practices” identified within its own operation and the industry in order to improve individual crewmembers and vessel safety performance. The Company’s senior management shall actively engage in monitoring the Company’s performance in order to future encourage and promote positive trends, to provide advice and to take corrective action where negative trends are detected. To limit any negative impact on the environment from our vessel: Through our long term goal of environmental excellence, Awilco LNG wish to minimize the impact on the environment from its vessel. A zero tolerance for spills to the environment has also been adapted. Additional there is a zero tolerance for emissions of Ozone depleting substances, zero tolerance for dumping of any type of garbage or waste to the marine environment and to minimize as far as practicably possible the emission of NOx and SOx from diesel combustion engines, boilers, incinerators and emission cargo and fuel oil tanks and systems through evaporation. To meet or exceed the industry and our customers requirements through operational excellence: Our long term goal of operational excellence shall be met by: zero tolerance for machinery breakdowns caused by inferior maintenance procedures, and zero tolerance for loss of cargo or cargo contamination caused by lack of education and continuous training of the vessel’s crew. To provide a stable and challenging work atmosphere: For all Company employees both at the office and onboard the vessels - work atmosphere shall be stable and challenging by high retention rate and motivating work. Proactively the Company shall seek to identify requirements and needs for additional training through regular audits, Master and Management reviews. A healthy lifestyle shall be promoted by providing fresh and healthy food and physical exercise opportunities. Environmental Protection and Safety Management Policy Awilco LNG’s Environmental Protection & Safety Management Policy is: Awilco LNG shall give the highest priority to the safety of human life and health as well as the environment and protection of asset values with the goals of ‘Zero Spills and Zero Accidents’. The Company recognizes that the most important means to achieve the objectives of this operational excellence and deliver high quality service is to: Provide support to ships' operation by implementation of a well structured Safety Management System based on a well defined Management Organization Operate the vessels with continuously properly trained, informed and motivated crews Provide, equip and maintain the ships to the necessary standard as required by national regulation and international convention as well as to the defined and expressed Owners' standard Avoid safety hazards through preventive safety measures Establish contingency plans and execute drills and training to improve emergency preparedness to meet situations which represent dangers to life, health, environment, ship and cargo See to it that a Safety Management Culture is implemented within the Company Use a reporting system for accidents, near accidents, non conformities and improvements, with special attention to the learning effect through feed back of experience and suggestions for improvement. Use performing measures to continuously improve our operations. AWILCO LNG ASA, P.O.BOX 1583 VIKA, NO-0118 OSLO, NORWAY. Phone: 47-2201 4200. Fax: 47-2201 4370 DISCLAIMER