This issue of HSE Focus comes as we fold away another year of hard work and dedicated efforts to further improve out Environment and ensure that our workplace is safer and healthier. Year 2005 witnessed many achievements in HSE, topped with the award of ISO 14001 certification and the commencement of work towards the achievement of OHSAS 18001, in addition to the continuation of our Contractors HSE management workshops…

Focus on HSE issues continues to grow to occupy an appreciable level of our attention when reviewing, planning or conducting our duties. Accompanying this growth, comes the need to organize ourselves to be able to handle the varying aspects of our commitments to improve health performance, assuring our safety and protecting and enriching our environment.

This issue of the HSE Focus magazine highlights a significant ZADCO achievements; namely, the certification of our Environmental Management System (EMS) under the ISO 14001 standard. This achievement is significant, not only because it confirms the high quality of ZADCO's EMS but also because it was the result of a great deal of hard work and cooperation from personnel across the company, both offshore at all sites and head office.