1. Mobile Phones & driving

2. Introduction Investigation has shown that use of a mobile phone while driving, including hands-free phones, promotes higher risk of an incident As of 15th June 2005: All Local Shell Entities in EPM forbid the use of a mobile phone, including hands-free, while driving on company business This is applicable to all Shell staff, contractors, and anyone, including suppliers, working on a Shell managed site.

3. “On company business…” While driving a Company vehicle, rental car, or own vehicle on Company business, the driver is not permitted to use a mobile phone or 2-way radio even with the use of hands-free equipment For security & emergency operations and for business critical activities relying on cell phones or 2-way radios, these can be continued to be used, but only with hands free technology and limiting the duration of conversation provided the company completes a documented risk assessment for the permitted activities Scheduled calls will require the vehicle to be stopped and safely parked (i.e. not on the ‘hard shoulder’ of a road). Voic should be used to field any other calls while the device is switched off during the journey

4. Drivers engaged in cell phone conversations:
Significantly poorer driving performance
Four times as likely to crash
Comparable to alcohol impaired driving
Responsiveness seriously affected
Significantly vary their speed
Normal field of view
While on the phone

5. Are you still using your mobile phone whilst you are driving?
When using a hand held mobile phone you travel an additional 50 feet before stopping. Worse than being drunk 0m

6. Who else has already done this?BP
Exxon
Schlumberger
Shell USA Downstream
EPW Brazil
EPW Venezuela
EPW Canada
EPE
EPT
Salym Petroleum Development

7. What action are you expected to take?
Follow the company rule and do not use a mobile phone at all while driving on company business
Always check that the recipient of your phone call is not driving. End the conversation if you suspect they are driving
Lead by example and do not use a mobile phone at any time while driving
Encourage others not to use mobile phones while driving
If you see an offender, intervene, it could prevent an injury
Road traffic fatalities (including pedestrians, cyclists and motorists) are projected to double over the next two decades to over 1.5 million people annually, moving from ninth to third in terms of the leading causes of injury and disease globally.
Make sure you and your colleagues are not one of those statistics

8. Your safety is top priority
Mobile Phones & driving Any member of staff found to be using communications devices while driving on Company business will be in breach of HSE regulations and may be disciplined accordingly This policy with respect to mobile phones has been endorsed by the EPM-LT as part of the EP standard (Manage Logistics – Road Transportation HSE)
Your safety is top priority