Assessment of Contractor's HSE Performance based on Key Indicators in a Petrochemical Industrial Setting: (a Case Study)

According to the progressive trend of contracting companie's activity in petrochemical industries, also the significant role of HSE in sustainable improvement, it seems that there is a need to have an appropriate plan for evaluation of Contractor s performance. The purposeofthisresearch is the assessment and evaluation of Contractor s HSE performance based onkey indicators inthepetrochemicalcompany. In this descriptive and cross-sectional study data was gathered using two types of questionnaires and checklist. Research population were includedfourteen contracting companies working in a petrochemical company. Sevenelements ofHSEmanagementsystemsaskey indicatorsandevaluationcriteriahavebeendeveloped.The averagepercentageofquestionsasthebenchmarkindex(less than50 %, 50 unfavorable, 70-75 % acceptable,75-90 % Good, 90-100 % favorable) were considered. Collected data were analyzed by nonparametric methods with correlation and Kruskal-Wallistest. The percentage and average are used in descriptive statistics. Our results revealed that all related performance criteria were implemented by more than70% of cases actually. Also about 90% of companies were in favorable, good and acceptablecondition. Kruskal-Wallistest resultsshowed thattheperformanceofcompanies in differentindicators (p=0.437) and alsobetweenthedifferentcompanies in allparameters there was no significant difference(p =0.423, p=1). Results showed that Contractors HSE performance based on key indicators in mostcompanies were in favorable condition and in limited numbers of them were good and acceptable. This relativelyfavorableconditioncan be resulted by the establishment of the HSEmanagementinPetrochemical Companyas well as contractors commitment to respect Client's HSE rules and regulations.