An important step toward building effective partnerships is engaging local communities to better understand and address their issues, concerns and aspirations. Many companies with facilities, such as refineries, gas plants, pipelines and drilling operations, establish local councils that inform citizens about the facility’s operations and what provisions are in place to protect the health and safety of the community. These councils, sometimes referred to as Community Advisory Panels (CAPs), typically reflect the makeup of the community and meet regularly with facility managers. Community councils provide a forum for discussing matters of mutual interest and for promoting decisions and actions. Many companies are also partners in community health programs with the aim of improving health related services to local communities or in supporting regional and national programs. Chief among emerging community health concerns, especially among developing countries, is the prevention of HIV/AIDS, malaria and other blood borne diseases. Many companies work directly with local communities to promote a variety of prevention strategies ranging from education and sanitation improvements, to making medical facilities and staff available, or to building and staffing community hospitals.
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ChevronTexaco and its Block 0 partners – Sonangol, TotalFinaElf, and Agip – joined forces to set up a state-of-the-art blood bank Cabinda province. The bank has improved blood-screening services for hepatitis, HIV, malaria, and other infectious diseases.
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At TCO’s Tengiz Field, employees of different nationalities and languages work shoulder-to-shoulder, major construction equipment roams the field for most of the year, and weather conditions rank among the globe’s most extreme. Despite such obstacles, by October 2001, TCO’s staff of 3,200 had posted some 17 million hours – almost three years – without a lost-time incident.
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Protection of human life is the first step in assuring lasting community progress; thus, safety plays an important, if sometimes under-recognized, role in sustainability.
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Thirteen of the company’s 14 company-operated refineries have established community advisory councils (CACs) that meet regularly and promote dialogue between the local community and refinery management.
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The Mackenzie Valley A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed with the Aboriginal Pipeline Group, which represents many of the local communities. The memorandum ensures that the local people will benefit from the development.
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At the Alpine field on Alaska’s Western North Slope, ConocoPhillips operates the first oil production facility located and developed on Native Alaskan land. As part of the land access negotiations prior to development, ConocoPhillips and the community of Nuiqsut created a Surface Use Agreement that defines the responsibilities and obligations of both parties.
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The company’s concern for safety extends to its employees’ families and the communities in which it operates, and many company locations have safety outreach programs.
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During the course of project planning for Chad oil production and the pipeline to Cameroon, there was extensive environmental planning and public consultation. This included over 900 public consultation meetings in more than 300 villages in the oil field area and pipeline route.
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In an effort to reduce the spread of AIDS in Africa, the company is working with local communities to strengthen HIV education and prevention programs. ExxonMobil joined in a public-private partnership in Angola that supports a variety of community-focused HIV/AIDS education and prevention strategies. In Chad and Cameroon, programs to prevent and mitigate the effects of HIV/AIDS are part of our World Bank-approved environmental management plan.
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In 1999, Marathon was one of the first companies to become a pioneer company in the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association (NRPA) Responsible Care Partnership Initiative, which focuses on improvement through implementation of key HES practices.
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