Health, safety and environment
We work 1.4 to 1.7 million hours a year. We publish the figures every year, and every worker may stop a job when they see a hazard.
Since the last lost-time injury584 days18 March 2025
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Policy
- No high-risk job starts without a permit to work: at height, in confined spaces, hot work, lifting, electrical.
- Every shift starts with a safety briefing, recorded in the log.
- Every employee and subcontractor may stop a job; nobody is punished for it.
- Incident and hazard reports reach the system within 24 hours; investigations close within 10 working days.
- Oily water, drilling waste and used oil are collected and treated; nothing is discharged to land or sea.
Rauf Huseynov, general director. In force from 15 January 2026.
Figures by year
Our own staff together with subcontractors working on our sites.
2021
- Hours worked
- 1,412,000
- LTI
- 2
- Recordable cases
- 7
- TRIR
- 0.99
- LTIF
- 1.42
- Hazard reports
- 184
2022
- Hours worked
- 1,538,000
- LTI
- 1
- Recordable cases
- 6
- TRIR
- 0.78
- LTIF
- 0.65
- Hazard reports
- 236
2023
- Hours worked
- 1,604,000
- LTI
- 1
- Recordable cases
- 5
- TRIR
- 0.62
- LTIF
- 0.62
- Hazard reports
- 291
2024
- Hours worked
- 1,688,000
- LTI
- 1
- Recordable cases
- 4
- TRIR
- 0.47
- LTIF
- 0.59
- Hazard reports
- 342
2025
- Hours worked
- 1,742,000
- LTI
- 1
- Recordable cases
- 3
- TRIR
- 0.34
- LTIF
- 0.57
- Hazard reports
- 377
2026, January–September
- Hours worked
- 1,318,000
- LTI
- 0
- Recordable cases
- 2
- TRIR
- 0.30
- LTIF
- 0.00
- Hazard reports
- 301
What they mean
- LTI
- Lost-time injury: the injured person cannot work at least one shift after the day of the injury.
- Recordable case
- An LTI, restricted work or any medical treatment beyond first aid.
- TRIR
- Recordable cases × 200,000 / hours worked: roughly cases per 100 full-time workers a year.
- LTIF
- LTI × 1,000,000 / hours worked: lost-time injuries per million hours.
Stop-work authority
Anyone on site, subcontractors and drivers included, may stop a job when they see a hazard. The crew stops, the supervisor comes, and work resumes only when the risk is removed. Under article 230 of the Labour Code a worker may refuse work when safe conditions are not provided and bears no liability for it.
When the weather stops work
From annex 2 of the Labour Code; wind on the Beaufort scale. We change the plan from the forecast before a limit is reached.
| Work | Limit |
|---|---|
| All work outdoors and in buildings without cooling, air temperature above | 41 °C |
| All crane work onshore, wind force of | 6 Beaufort |
| Construction and dismantling with crane vessels at sea, wind above | 4 Beaufort |
| Downhand welding at sea, wind above | 4 Beaufort |
| Vertical and overhead welding at sea, wind above | 3 Beaufort |
| Work on producing wells on fixed offshore platforms, wind above | 6 Beaufort |
| Tripping on drilling wells, wind above | 8 Beaufort |
| All work on the derrick except well flushing, wind above | 10 Beaufort |
| Outdoor work stops or warming breaks are given at this temperature with wind above force 3 | −10 °C |
Subcontractor prequalification
Every subcontractor working on our sites passes this check first.
Questionnaire and documents
HSE policy, figures for the last 3 years, insurance, workers’ certificates, equipment papers.
Document review
5 working days; missing documents are listed in writing.
Site audit
For high-risk work: lifting, hot work, confined spaces, work at height.
Score and approval
At least 70 out of 100; approval lasts 2 years and every job is reviewed afterwards.
Certificates
ISO 9001:2015
Quality management · since 2006
ISO 14001:2015
Environmental management · since 2011
ISO 45001:2018
Occupational health and safety · since 2019
In an emergency
Call 112 first, then our dispatcher, who answers around the clock. We report a workplace accident to the State Labour Inspection Service the same day (Labour Code, article 217).
Dispatcher: +994 12 555 63 11Report an incident or a hazard
For our staff, subcontractors and people living nearby. You may send it without your name. The HSE department reviews every report within 24 hours.
Labour Code articles checked as of October 2026.