Gulf Helicopters Company considers Safety to be a corporate value of the company and believes in providing its employees and customers with a safe environment.

Gulf Helicopters Company is committed to provide the highest standards of Safety and Compliance Monitoring in all facets of operations and maintenance and will resolutely strive to improve these standards with the goal of continuous improvement. The Company and its employees are committed to comply with, and where possible, exceed, legislative and regulatory requirements and standards. The Company is committed to human factors awareness, and for that reason trains organisation staff in order to be aware of human factors and sets a continuous training programme in this field.

Management is committed to the establishment of a safe and healthy place of work together with safe work practices, provision of safe equipment and effective management systems to ensure the integrity of all resources and processes. Safety is considered by Management to be a vital and integral part of the successful performance of any task and to the overall success of the Company. In order to achieve this goal, every employee is responsible to integrate safety into the performance of all their duties.

Management is committed to a Just and open safety culture, and actively encourage and promote the reporting of all occurrences, errors, incidents and hazards  so that they may be investigated and corrective action taken to avoid future re-occurrence. Management is committed to ensure that employees are not inappropriately punished for reporting occurrences or cooperating with investigations.

Management staff are responsible for implementing this policy and ensuring that safety is always the prime consideration, resources are adequate, employees are suitably qualified, trained and are provided with the required resources and that all work processes are properly planned and monitored to complete all jobs safely. The direct responsibility for the safe performance of an operation shall rest with the supervisor and with each employee.

The overall safety objective is proactive Hazard Identification and Risk Management. Occurrence Reporting, Management of Change, Risk Assessment and Mitigation, are all considered to be parts and tools of the Safety Management Systems implementation within Gulf Helicopters Company.

Gulf Helicopters Company encourages every employee to inform the Management personnel if neglect of this policy is witnessed, and identify areas that may benefit from further strengthening. All Gulf Helicopters Company employees shall comply with this policy and the standards and procedures set forth in the Safety Management Systems Manual.

 Mohd Hilal O Al-Hilal

Chief Executive Officer