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Safety, People and Culture - Our commitment

Each barrier in this model represents a safeguard that has failed, leading to an accident. Over time, the energy and aviation sectors have gained significant insights into the technical challenges they face, and today, latent failures in accidents often outnumber technical ones.

Within this model, specific subsections define the elements of a robust safety culture: Informed Culture, Learning Culture, Flexible Culture, Just Culture, and Reporting Culture. When these components function properly, they help prevent the alignment of failures that could lead to accidents. However, at Solanity we decided improve and embrace the safety culture model in all business practices. We call it Operational Excellence.

At Solanity, we believe that safety starts with our people and extends to everyone we interact with. We maintain a professional approach in all our business practices and foster a culture of operational excellence, inspired by the successful safety culture model used in various industries, including energy and aviation.

Safety culture involves a set of enduring attitudes and values regarding safety issues. It is widely recognised that accidents are rarely caused by a single event but rather by a series of events, often illustrated by the Swiss Cheese Model. This model suggests that accidents result from two types of failures: active and latent. Latent conditions can exist in any business area, remaining dormant until they contribute to an accident chain.

Operational Excellence

Latent failures, which can originate in various parts of an organisation, may remain unnoticed for years. These include aspects such as poor procedures, inadequate training, regulatory gaps, or flawed automation, all of which can have unintended consequences when combined with an active failure. Expanding this into all business areas, latent practices, poor business processes and incorrect assumptions can have an adverse impact on business, so the need to build a culture that allows for constant improvement is crucial to success.

In safety culture, a flexible culture is defined by the ability of a specific business unit to make necessary procedural changes to enhance safety. We believe that any change within Solanity should follow a core process involving the entire company. This approach minimises the risk of unintended consequences affecting other business units. Therefore, we promote an adaptive culture that adheres to a central change process involving the whole company.

A learning culture often focuses on lessons learned after incidents occur. We advocate for a more proactive approach - continuous improvement. This aligns with our quality assurance methodology, ensuring that we consistently seek improvements across the company.

Lastly, our reporting culture goes beyond safety related issues. Inspired by the Toyota Production System, where any process deficiency can be highlighted, we encourage open reporting in all business areas. This allows for necessary improvements to be made, following our centralised change process.

At Solanity, we believe that achieving our mission of providing sustainable energy - professionally, effectively, and efficiently - requires having the right people within the right culture. We’ve drawn lessons from the safety culture model to enhance all areas of our business.

This is why our commitment to safety is embedded in everything we do.

As the saying goes: Culture - it’s the way we do things around here.