We integrate health and safety into every aspect of our operations, creating a strong safety culture where every team member is responsible for maintaining safe work practices.
Santos integrates process safety and asset integrity into its sustainability framework to prevent major incidents and foster safe, reliable operations.
Our material topics
Santos is steadfast in pursuing safety excellence and is committed to conducting business activities in a manner that allows all employees and contractors go home healthy and safe.
Our approach
Santos is committed to being one of the safest, most reliable operators across the globe through a proactive and systematic approach to health, safety and security. Our commitment to safety is led by the Board and Executives with regular site visits being conducted to engage directly with our workforce and observe safety practices firsthand.
Guided by our Always Safe value and Code of Conduct, the SMS encompasses comprehensive policies and operating standards for health, safety and security. These standards articulate our strategic direction and minimum mandatory requirements across the organisation, while allowing flexibility in how these standards are achieved operationally.
Read more on risks and opportunities, our process and due diligence and our actions and performance in the 2025 Annual Report.
Asset integrity, process safety and life saving rules are core parts of our prevention approach.
Our approach
Santos is committed to being one of the safest and most reliable operators across the globe through the prevention of incidents that may have the potential to cause harm to our people, environment and assets. A failure to manage asset integrity and process safety can result in a major accident or environmental events. Using our improved safety risk assessment methodology, multiple independent barriers are identified and implemented to prevent a loss of containment and mitigate the escalation potential should it occur.
Read more on risks and opportunities, our process and due diligence and our actions and performance in the 2025 Annual Report.
In the event an incident occurs, we have the capability and industry aligned incident and emergency management framework and preparedness to drive safe and coordinated action at every level.
Our approach
We are deeply committed to the health and safety of our people and those who support our operations. While we focus on incident prevention, we maintain capabilities to respond to low-likelihood but higher consequence events. Our response priorities are clear: people first, then environmental protection, followed by our assets, ensuring a structured and ethical approach.
Our Crisis and Emergency Management Framework begins with the organisational Health and Safety Policy, which flows through to our operating and technical standards. These standards are embedded and operationalised to address the unique emergency risk profile of each asset covering staffing, competencies, equipment, risk management and testing protocols.
Read more on risks and opportunities, our process and due diligence and our actions and performance in the 2025 Annual Report.