Recently, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the Ministry of Emergency Management, and the National Health Commission jointly issued the "Decision on Commending the Advanced Collectives and Outstanding Individuals in the National 'Ankang Cup' Competition for 2022-2023". COSCO SHIPPING Energy, with its outstanding performance in work safety, was honored with the title of "Outstanding Unit" in the National "Ankang Cup" Competition for 2022-2023. This is the company's first time to receive this honor and the only unit within the Group to be awarded. This prestigious honor is not only a full affirmation of the company's adherence to the concept of safe development over the years, but also a high recognition of the hard work of all employees ashore and aboard in safe production and operation.

Improving Systems and Mechanisms to Fulfill Work Safety Responsibilities

COSCO SHIPPING Energy conducts standardized work safety standardization construction, continuously improves systems and mechanisms, establishes a comprehensive and multi-layered work safety responsibility system, and fortifies the work safety defense line. The company focuses on establishing a well-rounded comprehensive management system, regularly subject to evaluations by overseeing authorities and third-party certifications to ensure compliance and effectiveness. It continues to advance safety risk graded control and dual-control mechanisms for hidden danger investigations, institutionalizing the three-tiered hazard investigations the key management and control mechanism of "Five Preventions" on vessels, deeply promoting the investigation and rectification of major accident potential hazards, and increasing the treatment of high-risk and repetitive defects. Responsibilities for safety are firmly established at every level, strictly enforcing accountability mechanisms to ensure safety production responsibilities are clearly assigned and adhered to.

Addressing Both Symptoms and Root Causes to Fortify Work Safety Defenses

Adhering to the concept of "People First, Life First", COSCO SHIPPING Energy regards work safety as the lifeblood of enterprise development, thoroughly implements work safety, coordinates development and safety, addresses both symptoms and root causes with an emphasis on the latter, and solidly promotes the action of tackling key issues for the fundamental improvement of work safety. It coordinates and advances the deepening of hidden danger investigation and treatment, strengthens key controls, promotes foundation strengthening, and facilitates management upgrades, establishing a comprehensive and multi-layered safety defense line, and laying a solid foundation for building a world-class shipping and technology enterprise. The company's labor union conducted the first "Ship Safety Star" competition and selection activities, establishing advanced benchmarks for safety work, fostering a strong atmosphere of "learning from advanced examples, striving to be advanced, and surpassing advanced examples," further consolidating the company's work safety foundation and injecting new vitality and momentum into the company's work safety.

Building Activity Platforms to Consolidate the Foundation for Safe and Healthy Development

The labor unions at all levels of COSCO SHIPPING Energy deeply expand the "Ankang Cup" competition activities, carefully planning and conducting a series of diverse and content-rich activities centered around the theme of "investigating and rectifying hidden safety hazards and jointly promoting safe and healthy development", injecting strong momentum into the company's stable and safe development. It comprehensively advances "Work Safety Month" activities and special investigation and rectification work for major accident hidden dangers, organically combining safety knowledge and occupational disease prevention knowledge contests, "snap safety hazards anywhere and anytime" activities, as well as safety culture promotion, using competitions to promote learning and stimulating employees' enthusiasm for learning safety knowledge, and allowing employees to gain a deeper understanding of the importance of work safety and key knowledge points during the competitions. The "snap safety hazards anywhere and anytime" activity encourages everyone to discover and promptly record hidden safety hazards around them anytime and anywhere, fully demonstrating the keen insight and high sense of responsibility of ship and shore employees regarding hidden safety hazards. It continuously deepens the "6+X" safety and health series of activities on vessels, advocating that vessels conduct healthy and positive employee cultural and sports activities each month based on actual conditions. It leads crew members to continuously strengthen their safety and responsibility awareness, escorting the company's safe development with a greater sense of responsibility and mission.

Innovation Drives Safety, Creating a New Engine for Work Safety

COSCO SHIPPING Energy continuously explores diverse development channels with innovation as its guide, committed to deepening the construction of model worker and employee innovation studios, meticulously transforming these studios into "new engines" for the company's innovation-driven development. The Chen Jianrong Ship Management Model Worker Innovation Studio, with its abundant innovation achievements, has won the honor of the Shanghai Model Worker Innovation Studio, and its research and development projects have won awards such as the Shanghai Employee Rationalization Suggestion Innovation Award and the First Prize for Excellent Labor Competition Achievements within the group, demonstrating the company's innovative strength and leading level in the field of safety management. The COSCO SHIPPING Energy labor union closely focuses on the company's key tasks of "improving quality and efficiency, and accelerating transitions", concentrating on core work such as safety management, digital intelligence, green and low-carbon initiatives, and risk prevention and control, extensively mobilizing all employees to brainstorm and actively conduct reasonable suggestion solicitation activities, and effectively promoting the continuous optimization and upgrading of the company's safety management work.

Promoting Family Culture to Construct a Safety and Health Protection Network

COSCO SHIPPING Energy has always regarded safeguarding and developing employees' spiritual and cultural rights and interests as an important task, fully advancing the construction of a family-oriented safety culture, and meticulously constructing a trinity safety and health protection system encompassing the enterprise, family, and employees. It hosts the "Heart Sailing" series of activities for energy ships, inviting crew members' families to deeply participate in the company's work safety management, more effectively promoting family happiness and harmony, and allowing the majority of crew members to feel dual support from their families and the company while working at sea. It continuously and deeply advances the "Empowering Crew Members" five major projects, cares for every employee with heart and emotion, and holds the "June 1st" Children's Day theme activity of Energy Haibao and the Crew Members' Family Open Day, building a deep interaction platform for crew members and their families, which not only enhances the deep affection between parents and children but also allows family members to gain an in-depth understanding of the company's enterprise culture and operations, further enhancing crew members' sense of gain and pride, and making them more determined to contribute to the company's high-quality development.

Honor is a new starting point, and safe development never stops. Winning the title of "Outstanding Unit" in the National "Ankang Cup" Competition this time is not only a full affirmation of COSCO SHIPPING Energy's past work safety efforts but also an incentive and impetus for its future safe development. Looking ahead, COSCO SHIPPING Energy will continue to uphold the concept of safe development, promote the implementation of work safety efforts with higher standards, stricter requirements, and more practical measures, continuously deepen fundamental work safety problem-solving and critical action initiatives, comprehensively strengthen the construction of a safety culture, continuously explore and innovate safety management models, and strive to build a safer, more efficient, and greener world-class shipping and technology enterprise, making new and greater contributions to the company's "multi-core and multi-chain" development landscape!