Case Study
Developing Process Safety at MOL
Developing Process Safety at MOL The Sec OnD buiLDing bLOck Of an effecT ive SafeT y cuLTure When Béla Cseh, HSE director at Hungarian energy group MOL, first suggested bringing in DuPont safety consultants to improve the company’s safety performance in 2004, the reactions he got were mixed. Many people in the organisation already believed they were doing the right thing and didn’t see the need to bring in an external company to train and advise them. Yet in Cseh’s experience, “Consultants are good, because they force us to do what we know we should do.” Safety: a prerequisite for developing multi-nationals Once a state-owned Hungarian oil and gas company, the MOL Group, since privatisation in 1995, has developed into Central Europe’s most influential player in the energy marke