In order to continually enhance the safety of our workforce, we have comprehensive strategies, policies, practices, systems and controls in place across the company to protect employees, contractors and sub-contractors. We take a proactive approach to identifying and preventing safety issues, take immediate action when an issue is identified, and continually look for ways to improve our safety performance

In 2018, we are undertaking plans to establish a centralized safety and reliability team serving Liquids Pipelines, Major Projects and Gas Transmission & Midstream. Centralizing our safety teams under one umbrella will ensure that we apply the best in safety standards, policies and practices in a consistent manner across the organization and in the most effective way. The driver of this centralization is to drive even greater safety performance and safety culture across the organisation.

Health & Safety Improvement Strategy
Our vision is to be the leading energy delivery company in North America. This includes being the leader in safety and operational reliability among our peer energy infrastructure companies and driving a strong performance-based safety culture. We are focused on mitigating incidents due to human factors, creating an enterprise risk framework and improving process safety management.

Enbridge Management System Structure
Our primary duty is to keep our workforce safe, protect the public and the environment from harm, and ensure the safe and reliable operation of our assets; and our goal is to maintain and continually improve upon our safety and reliability performance.

This requires us to do the right thing, the right way, every time by conducting our activities in a systematic, comprehensive and proactive manner that manages risks and prevents incidents across the lifecycle of our assets―from design, procurement, construction and operations through to abandonment.

Following our combination with Spectra Energy in early 2017, we established an Enterprise Management System Structure to help us achieve this level of discipline and drive continual improvement in our safety and reliability performance.

This robust structure sets enterprise-wide minimum requirements and guides implementation of these requirements by our business segments. Built into this structure are all dimensions of safety and reliability, including risk management and process safety. The prevention of catastrophic incidents is crucial, and this structure allows us to mandate the application of systematic risk management―good design principles, engineering, and operating practices―throughout the company. As part of this structure, our leaders are responsible for developing and supporting improved safety performance and a positive safety culture, as well as for demonstrating and exercising safety leadership. In addition, all workforce personnel―employees and contractors―have a role to play in helping us sustain our strong safety culture, including the responsibility for reporting hazards, potential hazards and incidents.

Safety Principles and Lifesaving Rules
Our Safety Principles outline how we think about health and safety at Enbridge, and support our core values of Integrity, Safety and Respect by guiding our actions, policies, procedures and culture. The Safety Principles complement our six Lifesaving Rules that focus on areas of high risk and high consequence, which have been updated in 2017 due to the integration with Spectra Energy.

Safety and Reliability Programs
For us, strong safety performance requires a multi-layered management approach to promote and support individual and team contributions. Senior management annually sets detailed safety performance metrics at the business-segment level. These metrics help us focus on key performance factors related to safety and operational reliability. These metrics are incorporated into our business segment scorecards and account for a minimum of 20 percent of the business segment performance bonus available to employees.

We consider our contractors and sub-contractors to be our partners in safety and expect them to view safety the same way we do. In 2016 we did quite a bit of work around our Enterprise Framework for Contractor Safety Management, however due to the combination with Spectra Energy this framework has not yet been implemented. We look forward to continuing this work into 2018 while still having in place our wide range of ongoing contractor safety processes and programs to help us achieve our goal of industry-leading safety performance.