QHSE

G.O.S.L is committed to delivering services that meet the highest international standards of quality, safety, and environmental responsibility. We prioritize the well-being of our people, clients, and communities while ensuring sustainable and compliant operations.

Overview

Our QHSE Policy

At G.O.S.L, quality and safety are at the core of every project we execute. We strive to consistently deliver services that exceed client expectations, while minimizing risks and environmental impact. Our team works proactively to maintain a safe workplace and promote continuous improvement across all operations.

Our Core Objectives Include:

 

  • Deliver products and services that meet client requirements and are fit for purpose.
  • Provide a safe, healthy workplace for employees and contractors.
  • Minimize environmental impact through responsible operations and waste management.
  • Continuously improve quality outputs via internationally recognized systems.
  • Ensure compliance with statutory and legal requirements.
  • Actively seek and act upon customer feedback to enhance services.
  • Foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.

QHSSE & Social Performance

Our Commitment and Policy on Health, Safety, Security, the Environment and Social Performance applies across the company. It includes aims aligned with the GOSL Business principle on how it reflects the integrated way of operation. This gives the common value statements and broad goals in these areas and is designed to help protect people and the environment.

Our commitment goes beyond compliance we actively protect our workforce, clients, and communities while reducing environmental impact and creating positive, lasting change where we operate.

Key Focus Areas:

  • Quality – Consistently delivering services that meet and exceed international standards.
  • Health & Safety – Ensuring the well-being of our workforce and stakeholders.
  • Security – Safeguarding people, assets, and offshore operations.
  • Environment – Promoting sustainable practices and environmental stewardship.
  • Social Performance – Supporting local communities through employment, skills development, and responsible engagement.

It includes our aim to do no harm to people, to protect the environment and to contribute to the societies where we operate. Our mandatory standards and accompanying manuals support these goals. All our companies and contractors under our operational control must manage HSSE and Social Performance in line with its commitment and policy.

HSSE & Social Performance

At G.O.S.L, Health, Safety, Security, and Environment (HSSE) are not just policies they are core values that guide how we work. We are committed to delivering services in a way that protects lives, secures assets, preserves the environment, and strengthens community relations.

GOSL is committed to preventing accidents, injuries, and material losses, and will work to ensure the health, safety, and well-being of all stakeholders, contractors, and others with whom the firm may have contact in the course of its operations.

We aim to ensure a safe and healthy work environment for all employees at all locations, as well as encourage employee participation in Health, Safety, and Environmental problems. Employees must consequently conduct their activities in the safest possible manner, ensuring their own and coworkers’ safety.

GOSL management has primary responsibility for ensuring that the company’s Health, Safety, and Environmental programs are effective, promoted, and implemented in compliance with applicable regulations and established HSE guidelines and requirements. The implementation of the HSE policy is delegated to allow for a shared focus on improving the company’s HSE performance.

Our Key Implementation Measures:

  • Establish a Strong HSE Management System – Define how health, safety, and environmental matters are addressed, evaluated, and communicated across all operations.
  • Ensure Compliance – Adhere strictly to all relevant laws, regulations, and company safety standards.
  • Promote a Safe and Equipped Workplace – Identify and mitigate risks while providing employees with the right tools, safety equipment, and training.
  • Foster a Safety Culture – Encourage reporting of incidents and risks without blame, while holding supervisors accountable for maintaining safety awareness.
  • Protect the Environment – Use resources efficiently, minimize waste, and responsibly manage environmental impacts both onshore and offshore.

Our HSE standards will not be compromised by our business principles. We will therefore continue to adopt proactive measures to improve HSE performance that will ensure no injury to people, no damage to property and no harm to environment as a standard and accepted way of doing business. GOSL complies with the IOGP lifesaving rules when carrying out their operations.

GOSL Nigeria Limited:

  • Has a structured approach to HSSE and social performance management that is designed to assure legal compliance and ongoing performance improvement.
  • Sets improvement goals assesses, evaluates, and reports on performance.
  • Contractors must manage HSSE and social performance in accordance with the company’s policy.
  • This policy is mandatory for strategic partnerships under its operational control, the company utilizes its influence to promote it in other business ventures.
  • Neighbors and impacted communities are effectively engaged.
  • Incorporates HSSE and social performance into employee evaluations and safety incentives are given based on this.

Control Framework:

 

At G.O.S.L, Service Quality, Health, Safety, Security, and Environment (QHSSE) are at the heart of everything we do. Our top priorities are ensuring everyone returns home safely each day, delivering the highest level of service quality to our clients, and protecting — or improving the environments where we operate. We foster a culture where employees take responsibility for their safety and that of their colleagues, working together to maintain secure and healthy workplaces across all locations.

Guided by our QHSSE initiatives and Operational Excellence Performance System (OEPS), we continuously enhance our safety performance through training, team building, and proactive programs. With systems that prevent workplace hazards, promote buddy intervention, and encourage a blame-free culture, we drive measurable improvements year after year. This commitment extends beyond safety to our environmental and social responsibilities, ensuring our operations create positive and lasting impacts for both our clients and the communities we serve.

The framework covers eight (8) areas:

 

  • Contractor HSSE management
  • Environment
  • Health
  • HSSE & SP management system
  • Personal safety
  • Security
  • Social performance

This contains a simplified set of mandatory standards that define high level HSSE and Social Performance principles and expectations. These set of manuals assist our employees to put the mandatory standards into practice.

At GOSL Safety Always Matters

At G.O.S.L, safety is our top priority. Our goal is zero fatalities, zero Lost Time Injuries (LTIs), and no incidents that harm individuals, communities, facilities, or the environment. To achieve this, we follow mandatory safety manuals covering personal, road, and process safety while introducing simpler, clearer requirements that are easy to understand and follow.

We focus on strong safety leadership, fostering a positive safety culture, and ensuring full compliance with safety rules. By recognizing good practices and addressing behaviors that could lead to harm, we continue to improve our safety performance achieving a major milestone of 1,000,000 manhours LTI-free in December 2019, a testament to our commitment to safe operations.

EIGHT GEMS

Our Eight GEMS (Getting Everyone Managing Safety) program is meant to educate and empower employees to intervene when they witness harmful acts, unsafe environments, or other safety procedures being violated. We are advocating for global safety by examining each of the GEMS in detail. We can all work together to attain our GOAL of a workplace with zero incidents.

Our Eight GEMS (Getting Everyone Managing Safety) program is meant to educate and empower employees to intervene when they witness harmful acts, unsafe environments, or other safety procedures being violated. We are advocating for global safety by examining each of the GEMS in detail. We can all work together to attain our GOAL of a workplace with zero incidents.

Differentiating Service Quality

GOSL is committed to delivering efficient services that meet and exceed client expectations in a qualitative manner, consistently working to meet all accepted industry standards. GOSL will always strive to ensure that its personnel have the required background, experience and knowledge base, and that its equipment are in perfect working condition.

To implement this quality policy and maintain our commitment, we will:

 

  • Provide customers with products and services that meet requirements and are fit for their purpose
  • Improve quality output through the determined implementation of a functional internationally accepted Quality Management System.
  • Continually improve employee output to clients by consistently investing in training and knowledge development.
  • Ensure compliance with relevant statutory and legal requirements.
  • Actively seek and act upon customer feedback.

Our people are what drive us.

 

At GOSL, our goal is to become a recognized leader in the oilfield services sector. We intimately understand the importance to deliver consistent quality services to our clients. In attaining this, we rely on the talent of our people and fortify their professionalism by providing them with best-in-class tools and processes.

 

 

  • Every day, we invest in our workers’ learning and development in order to improve competency, safety procedures, and service quality across the board. Our Operational Excellence and Performance System (OEPS) and the standards we’ve established enable our employees to keep their promises to the company, their coworkers, and our customers.
  • At GOSL, our OEPS system is unlike any other in the market, allowing our personnel to design custom solutions for our clients.

 

GOSL is committed to achieving the highest performance in Operational Excellence. This will be achieved through demonstrated leadership, ethical behavior and adherence to GOSL standards. GOSL will endeavor to conduct all operations in a manner that will protect the environment, communities and the integrity of the Company’s human, physical, and financial resources.

Consistent with its policy(s) GOSL will:

 

  • Place safety, health, reliability, quality and protection of the environment as core values while never intentionally placing employees, our processes, customers or the communities in which we live and work at risk of loss
  • Seek continual improvement in reliability, quality, health, safety and environmental performance, taking into account, responsible care, process vulnerabilities, public, customer and employee inputs, scientific knowledge and technology, and best business practices to exceed customer expectations
  • Demonstrate personal commitment to the prevention of employee injury, ill health, and Non-Productive Time (NPT) whilst holding our managers and employees accountable for performance in their area(s) of responsibility
  • Communicate and consult with our employees, interested parties and our customers on safety, health, reliability, quality and protection of the environment
  • Actively seek ways to eliminate and/or minimize identified service-related product risks, workplace hazards, processes inefficiencies, process variance, prevent pollution and reduce environmental footprints associated with our services.
  • Comply with our policies and adhere to all applicable laws, regulations, standards and other requirements that the organization subscribes. Where adequate laws do not exist, we will apply standards that reflect our commitment to Quality, health, safety, security, protection of the environment and Customer Satisfaction.
  • Set, review and act upon our Key Performance Indicators, objectives and targets.

 

This policy(s) will be made available to our workers, customers, suppliers, and other interested parties, as well as communicated to all persons working under our supervision, with the goal of informing them of their specific responsibilities.

Our Certifications

G.O.S.L is certified to globally recognized standards, demonstrating our commitment to quality and safety:

  • ISO 9001:2015 – Quality Management System
  • ISO 45001:2018 – Occupational Health & Safety Management
  • British Safety Council Member – Aligning with international safety best practices
  • Compliance with IMCA and API standards
  • Certified by Institute Of Safety Professionals Of Nigeria (ISPON)

Why Choose GOSL?

  • Rapid and flexible deployment.
  • Reduced mobilization costs with locally maintained equipment.
  • Experienced Nigerian teams available 24/7.
  • Proven track record across major Oil & Gas projects.