At IPLOCA, we are committed to promoting the highest standards of health and safety across the international pipeline and energy industry. Our mission is to foster a culture where safety is a core value, embedded in every aspect of our members’ operations.

We recognize that the nature of pipeline and energy work presents unique challenges and risks. Therefore, we strive to support our members in achieving zero harm through leadership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Our Commitments:

  • Leadership & Accountability: We will lead by example, promoting safety as a shared responsibility at all levels of our organization and among our members.
  • Compliance & Standards: We will support adherence to all applicable health and safety laws, regulations, and industry best practices in every country where our members operate.
  • Risk Management: We will encourage proactive identification, assessment, and mitigation of risks to prevent incidents and protect workers, communities, and the environment.
  • Training & Competence: We will promote ongoing education and competency development to ensure that all personnel are equipped to work safely and responsibly.
  • Incident Reporting & Learning: We will foster a culture of transparency and learning by encouraging the reporting of incidents and near misses, and by sharing lessons learned across our membership.
  • Continuous Improvement: We will regularly review and enhance our health and safety initiatives, tools, and resources to reflect evolving industry needs and innovations.

The HSE &CSR Committee, acting on behalf of the Board will regularly review the HSE Performances of all members, in order to set industry standard and expectations, and monitoring performance against the KPIs set by the Board.

IPLOCA aims to actively improve the HSE culture in the industry, through the following initiatives:

Health, Safety, and Environmental Statistics
Since 1999 IPLOCA has been collecting safety statistics from membership, such that aggregate statistics for the industry can be monitored and reported. In 2017, these statistics were combined with the Environmental statistics to create a unique form and report. All Regular Members are required to submit their Health, Safety, & Environmental Statistics to IPLOCA annually.

Health & Safety Award
An annual IPLOCA Health and Safety Award sponsored by Snamis presented at the convention each year in recognition of a significant achievement in this field.

Health & Safety Workshops
IPLOCA organises workshops for members to share experiences and initiatives being put in practice to prevent incidents and accidents. Topics of past workshops can be viewed here.

Health, Safety and Environment Shared Experiences

This databank aims to build up and share an inventory of best practices, lessons learned and alerts from the industry to improve health, safety, environment and sustainable practices on pipeline construction sites.

Available IPLOCA documentation:
Download IPLOCA’s Health and Safety Policy Statement 2025
Download IPLOCA’s Incident investigation process 

Training material
Safety Culture:
The INGAA Foundation, Inc. developed a video to define the desired construction safety culture and the attitudes and behaviors critical to achieving that culture. IPLOCA supports the INGAA Foundation Safety Culture video. To watch it, please click here.

Safety Instructors Tool:
IPLOCA has adapted a course prepared by the Canadian Construction Council and other key stakeholders groups to address health and safety issues specific to pipeline construction in the oil and gas sectors. Unfortunately this DVD is not available any more.

External link:
World Federation’s Safety Guidelines for International Onshore Pipeline Construction