
Board of directors
James Fisher's board of directors is responsible for steering the group’s purpose, culture and values.
Our overarching goal remains to maintain the health and safety of our employees, contractors, suppliers and customers at all times.
The nature of our operations means that we frequently face hazards and harsh environments for which we are well prepared, trained and equipped.
We want people, including those benefitting from our products and services, to return safely to their homes, families, and friends every day. This is the inspiration for our "goal zero" incidents vision. To embed the right mindset and realise this vision, we will invest our efforts in three areas; policy development, education, and engagement.
The Group’s health, safety and security priorities, objectives, and performance monitoring are co-ordinated and governed by:
2022 health and safety performance did show an improvement on 2021 HSE performance data. During 2022, there have been incidents including high potential near misses and Lost Time Injuries. The Group has appointed a central HSEQ leader to improve the HSEQ performance and adopt best practice frameworks, processes, and standards across the Group.
Executive leaders continue to increase the level of awareness and focus on health and safety, and the Group Safety Forum is successfully sharing best practice, improving root cause analysis, initiatives and lessons learned amongst all stakeholders across the Group.
The Health, Safety and Security (HS&S) focus area will be led through our Business Excellence team from 2023. The Safety Forum supports a Group-wide commitment to a positive, collaborative culture that focuses on people empowerment while developing and deploying business critical standards, policies, procedures, and systems, ensuring compliance through monitoring.
Meeting our targets and commitments, and effective management and tracking of our ESG performance requires clearly defined leadership and direction, and strategic influence. Therefore a robust and regularly reviewed Governance structure is essential.
During 2022 the Sustainability Committee carried out a review of the sustainability organisation and governance structure to support our overarching sustainability and climate change agenda. As a result, various clarifications and changes to the executive level committee were made in order that it could be as effective as possible in curating activities across our respective sustainability
areas of focus.
Our Sustainability Committee, led by the Chief Executive Officer, reports directly to the Board of Directors and supports the Group’s sustainability strategy activation across all our operating companies.
The Sustainability Committee is supported by stakeholder working groups, each with the mandate for identifying and driving best practice initiatives for implementation by the operating companies of the strategy and sharing of information and recommendations to the Committee.
Find out how we aim to minimise the environmental impact of our operational footprint and the nature of the activities we undertake while actively investing in supporting the energy transition.
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