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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Improving the health of it’s employees and helping the residents of the communities in which it operates is important to Marathon. From changing the occurrence of colon cancer to donating bone marrow, employees are eager to make a difference.
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Gain a better understanding of what local residents wanted to know about the company's upstream operations. These findings helped shaped Petro-Canada's Operating in Your Neighbourhood program, which is intended to provide all of Petro-Canada's drilling and gas plant neighbours with easy-to-understand information about its activities and environment, health and safety precautions.
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Petro-Canada consults with those who may be affected by its projects and development plans. Public consultation is an ongoing activity at Petro-Canada, with an emphasis on building relationships and actively seeking public input.
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The volunteer-led Community Advisory Committee (CAC) to Petro-Canada’s Oakville Refinery in Ontario was formed in 1991 to work with the refinery to reduce environmental impacts on the community.
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Since September 1997, Petro-Canada’s Montreal refinery has been involved in an environmental management and co-operation project with the Quebec Ministry of the Environment and the Montreal Urban Community’s Environment Department.
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In 2000, Petro-Canada launched “Petro-Points for Cancer” program which gives its Petro-Points customers the opportunity to donate their points (in increments of 5,000) to the Cancer Information Service (CIS).
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Across Sub-Saharan Africa we run AIDS prevention and care programmes for our employees and their families using our retail outlets to raise public awareness. We will be adopting a global HIV/AIDS Standard. In January 2002, in partnership with Population Services International (PSI) and other NGOs, Shell Côte d’Ivoire opened the Shell Institut to carry out HIV prevention in Yamassoukrou, the Ivory Coast’s political capital.
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