Speakers:

Xavier Bontemps, international HSE leader with over 35 years’ energy industry leadership experience gained from senior roles at BP, Ineos and Total – and most recently as TotalEnergies’ Corporate HSE Director.

Kate Chauviré, Director, Academic Planning and Coordination, CEDEP

This last episode connects safety and operational excellence and examines the common performance levers between the two. Xavier Bontemps discusses how safety leadership and operational excellence work naturally together based on his personal experiences. 

In 2012, Xavier was recruited as the Manufacturing and Projects Director of a new refining and chemicals branch of a large energy company. Refining was merging with petrochemicals under one unique organisation. One of his founding acts was defining common governance and the meaning of operational excellence. Xavier takes us through this policy and definition of operational excellence based on four fundamental principles: management commitment, governance, management of contractors and individual commitment of all staff. 

He concludes that safety performance is strengthened when executed in parallel with the management of operational excellence. They are naturally bound together and require strong leadership that can continuously link both together, leaves skin in the game when the going gets rough, hammers strong stakes in the ground and solicits and honours contractor insights. 

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