Environmental, Health & Safety

Our policy

Williams is committed to the continuous improvement of environmental, health and safety performance to help achieve the greatest benefit for all our stakeholders. It is our policy to meet or exceed all applicable environmental, health and safety laws and regulations, and to facilitate full and open discussion to address responsible standards and practices where laws and regulations do not exist. Accordingly, this Environmental, Health and Safety Policy is a standard by which Williams and our employees are continually measured.

Our goals under this policy:

Operations

• Integrate environmental, health and safety stewardship into our core business activities.
• Make environmental, health and safety considerations a core component in existing operations and in the planning, design and construction of new and expanded facilities, including the integration of physical risk management into our business and decision processes.
• Establish a system for total employee involvement in environmental, health and safety process and a means to measure that participation.

Communications

• Promote environmental, health and safety awareness among customers and in the communities where we operate.
• Provide environmental, health and safety training and promote awareness among all employees.
• Cooperate and coordinate, in the spirit of partnership, with local, state and federal authorities and other stakeholders on environmental, health and safety matters and incidents.

Evaluation

• Incorporate critical environmental, health and safety performance metrics into our existing management reporting systems. Include the achievement of high environmental, health and safety standards of excellence as a component of the performance review process for each employee.
• Perform environmental, health and safety process assessments and independent compliance audits at a frequency appropriate to the size and nature of the operations and facilities, and implement corrective action. Perform evaluations of incidents and near misses through formal investigation including the identification of basic and root causes and steps to prevent reoccurrence of a similar event.
• Assess environmental, health and safety risks of existing operations, new business ventures and acquisitions.

Each employee is responsible for compliance with this policy and for implementing the policy within his or her area of responsibility.