Health, Safety, and Environment: see how we operate

We are guided by our HSE Policy, which defines the principles and guidelines that base our decision-making processes and workforce behavior.
Man and woman planting seedlings for the Amazon Mangroves, a socio-environmental project supported by Petrobras.

Caring for Heath, Safety, and Environment (HSE) is the guide to our work

To reduce risks to human health and the environment, our operations have action plans and emergency drills, and our workforce undergoes frequent training courses. In addition, we sponsor a series of environmental projects aimed at mitigating carbon emissions, protecting endangered environments and species, and conserving biodiversity.

Learn about our principles

Our Heath, Safety, and Environment activities are guided by the five principles of our HSE Policy. Check out each one of them:

HSE is Value

The workforce is committed to looking out for each other in the workplace and, when in doubt, to stop and seek help.   Our zero fatality and zero leak ambitions, sustainability goals and comitments, including climate change requestes, are integrated to our strategy and decision processes.

Respect for life

By caring for people and promoting an ethical, healthy and safe environment, we are committed to:
  • A fair culture of HSE based on mutual trust, transparency and learning from experience.
  • Encouraging people's protagonism in the continuous improvement of safety, health and well-being.

Risk-Based Management

We seek excellence in process safety at all stages of the life cycle of our assets, and we are committed to the following:
  • Continuous learning and innovation aimed at proactively reducing risks.
  • Readiness for emergency situations in order to ensure the speed and effectiveness of the response.

Business Sustainability

We conduct our business and activities with environmental responsibility by contributing to:
  • Sustainable development, and we are committed to the goal of carbon neutrality in our operations.
  • Preventing and mitigating the environmental impacts of activities and products and the improvement of the environmental quality where we operate.​​​​​​​

We reaffirm our commitment to:

We reaffirm our commitment to:
  • ​​​​​​​Sharing lessons learned and best HSE practices with our supply chain and partners, strengthening Petrobras' position of excellence in HSE.
  • Compliance with legislation, rules, standards and commitments to which the company is a signatory, communicating information in a transparent and correct manner.

Learn our HSE guidelines

Our HSE Policy also includes, in addition to our principles, 15 HSE guidelines. Get to know them:
To implement our projects, we go through environmental licensing processes, which include an analysis of possible impacts on the region.