Dear Colleagues, PDO is continually striving to achieve Goal Zero: ‘No harm to people and no damage to the environment’. We have not yet achieved this and are still on the improvement journey and as such we still suffer casualties and losses from incidents. To achieve our goal it is imperative that we eradicate our repeat incidents, and to do this we need to learn from the incidents we suffer and implement actions to ensure they never happen again to anyone else in the future. If, however, incidents are hidden and not reported then the lessons from the incidents and investigations are lost and we risk repeating the same mistakes. We are also breaking the law. As such, PDO has added specific penalties to contracts to discourage anyone from not reporting incidents and injuries. These become effective in all contracts today, 9 December 2015 and are outlined on the links below. Regards, Mohamed Al Salmani (MSEM)