operational excellence

management system
In 2004, we launched our Operational Excellence
Management System (OEMS), a comprehensive system
that helped build our OE culture and improve our health,
environment and safety performance. Our recently
updated OEMS features more visible linkages between
risk, assurance and safeguards and contains a streamlined
approach to manage risk. These updates help increase
our focus on preventing high-consequence incidents and
impacts.

OEMS

OEMS leader/practitioner overview OEMS workforce overview

learn more about OE for leaders/practitioners > learn more about OE for the workforce >

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 safeguards are at
the heart of OEMS
leadership and OE culture
Through the OEMS, our leaders engage
employees and contractors to build and
sustain our OE culture and deliver OE
performance.

focus areas
and OE expectations
Focus areas align with critical OE risks and
include:

• Workforce safety and health

• Process safety, reliability and integrity

• Environment

• Efficiency

• Security

• Stakeholders

The OE expectations guide us to design,

manage and assure the presence and
effectiveness of safeguards.

management system cycle

Through application of the Management
System Cycle, our leaders make risk-based and
data-driven decisions, prioritize activities, and
direct improvements.

risk management
OEMS is a risk-based and systematic approach
to identify, assess, prioritize and manage OE
risks.

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 safeguards
We establish and sustain safeguards and
assure they are in place and functioning in
accordance with legal and OE requirements.

Safeguards are the hardware and human

actions designed to directly prevent or
mitigate an incident or impact. Typical
safeguards include facility designs, mechanical
devices, engineered systems, protective
equipment and execution of procedures.

assurance
Through the execution of assurance programs,
we have confidence the safeguards are in
place and functioning.

Attestation of the OEMS against ISO

standards

Since 2004, Chevron has engaged an

independent organization, Lloyd’s Register
Quality Assurance (LRQA), to verify that
our Operational Excellence Management
System meets international environmental and
safety management system standards and
specifications.

In 2019, LRQA attested to the alignment of

Chevron’s Operational Excellence Management
System (OEMS) with the requirements of
ISO 14001:2015 and OHSAS 18001:2007 and
that OEMS is implemented throughout the
corporation.

read LRQA’s letter of attestation >

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