Sustainability

Occupational Health & Environmental Safety (K3LH)

The Occupational Safety, Health, and Environment (OHSE) Policy was developed to ensure safe, healthy, and sustainable operations. This policy includes guidelines and procedures to protect employees from potential risks of workplace accidents, safeguard their health, and ensure that every operational activity considers environmental impacts responsibly.

Through the OHSE policy, the company is committed to complying with regulations and standards related to OHSE, as well as continuing to improve continuously in creating a safe and environmentally friendly work environment.

OHSE Policy

  • PT Pupuk Indonesia (Persero) revitalizes old factory machines by updating technology to increase productivity and reduce energy consumption.
    For example, the company replaces a factory whose energy consumption reaches 40 MMBtu/ton of product with a new plant whose gas consumption is only 28 MMBtu/ton of product.
    Two factories of PT Pupuk Indonesia Group that have been revitalized, namely PKT 1 in Bontang and Pusri 2B in Palembang have replaced the Pusri II factory.

  • The company also designed a Decarbonization program as an effort to reduce emissions for business sustainability that is more environmentally friendly, through the development of blue & green ammonia, utilization of renewable electricity, solar power plants, co-firing of biomass in coal boilers, implementation of circular economy (utilization of CO2 into products and others, such as liquid CO2).

  • Utilization: reuse dominant B3 waste as raw material for by-products and auxiliary materials for main products.

Pupuk Indonesia Group has developed a strategy to integrate and prioritize action plans aimed at addressing various safety risks within the company, by setting measurable targets to ensure effective and efficient implementation.

Implementation of Process Safety Management (PSM) at PI Group

As part of its efforts to manage safety risks related to industrial processes, PI Group has implemented Process Safety Management (PSM) across five fertilizer subsidiaries (fertilizer plants). The following action plans have been put in place:

  • PSM Audit: An evaluation of Process Safety Management (PSM) implementation was conducted across five subsidiary fertilizer producers through a comprehensive PSM audit, covering all 12 key PSM elements. The audit aimed to assess regulatory compliance, measure the effectiveness of process safety systems, identify weaknesses or potential risks, and promote continuous improvement.
  • PSM Roll-Out Program Implementation: Development of procedures and guidelines for PSM audits as part of a broader roll-out program designed to strengthen PSM implementation across all units within Pupuk Indonesia Group.

With clear priorities and measurable action plans, Pupuk Indonesia ensures that every step taken to address safety risks and enhance occupational health and safety (OHS) culture is well-executed, delivering positive impacts on employee safety and the company’s operational sustainability.

Pupuk Indonesia is strongly committed to occupational health and safety across all areas of its operations. To uphold high Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) standards, the company has implemented an OHS Management System (SMK3), documented under PI-TEK-PR-002 in the OHS Management System Implementation Guidebook. A key component of this system is the Work Accident and Occupational Disease (PAK) Investigation Guide, which ensures the company has a clear procedure for investigating workplace accidents, health disruptions, occupational diseases, and other incidents.

Accident Investigation Procedure

  • Initial Reporting:

    All incidents—whether near misses, minor, moderate, major, or fatal—must be reported within the designated timeframe:

    • Near misses and minor accidents: within 2×24 hours
    • Moderate, major, and fatal accidents: within 1×24 hours

  • Investigation, Analysis, and Corrective Actions:

    • The HSE Synergy Department conducts initial investigations and analysis of the incident
    • The investigation team provides corrective action recommendations based on their findings
    • The relevant work unit is required to implement the recommended actions
    • The HSE Synergy Department monitors the implementation to ensure effectiveness

  • Documentation and Reporting:

    • All incidents are recorded as part of the company’s OHS performance metrics, supporting the goal of achieving zero accidents
    • This documentation process contributes to improved safety targets and continuous enhancement of OHS practices

Through the implementation of this procedure, Pupuk Indonesia ensures that occupational health and safety remains a top priority in every operational activity, fostering a safer and healthier work environment for all employees.

  • In implementing OHS, PT Pupuk Indonesia adopts the Occupational Safety and Health Management System (SMK3) and Process Safety Management (PSM) standards with a Zero Accident target, namely zero workplace accidents and prevention of occupational diseases. In 2024, we successfully achieved 50,800,556 safe working hours, and the LTIFR value for employees was reported at 0.05 and contractors at 0.03.

Our Response to Environmental Issues

Pupuk Indonesia actively participates in protecting and preserving the environment. Responsibility for environmental management is manifested in a program to comply with regulations and environmental quality standards accompanied by the implementation of environmental management systems, energy efficiency, emission reduction, water conservation and waste water reduction, 3R B3 waste and Non-B3 solid waste, as well as protection of biodiversity.

Pupuk Indonesia has implemented company policies in the field of Health, Occupational Safety and Environment (K3LH) since 2014 in order to realize social responsibility in the environmental field. Until now, all operational activities of the Pupuk Indonesia Group have environmental documents and permits. In addition, the Company also has a permit for the disposal of waste water into the sea/river as well as B3 waste management.

The production activities of the Pupuk Indonesia Group factory produce waste in the form of liquid, solid or gas. The waste is managed with the latest technology to ensure that the waste disposed meets the required quality standards. Compliance with these quality standards is evidenced by the achievement of Proper Blue (Compliance) and Proper Green and Gold (Beyond Compliance) from the Ministry of Environment and Forestry in 2020.

Monitoring and measurement of wastewater and emissions from each subsidiary is carried out periodically. Monitoring and measurement is carried out by the Indonesian National Standard (SNI) regarding waste sampling and waste analysis test methods or other equivalent reliable test standards.

The processing of B3 waste is carried out in accordance with the regulations and permits for waste processing from the Ministry of Environment and Forestry. The transportation uses land and sea transportation modes that already have a permit from the Ministry of Transportation and transportation recommendations from the Ministry of Environment and Forestry to be further utilized/processed by a licensed third party.

The Subsidiaries also have permits for the utilization of B3 waste from the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, including the use of fly ash, bottom ash, gypsum and lime. Fly ash and bottom ash are used as a substitute for brick, paving blocks and soil stabilization materials by PT Pupuk Kalimantan Timur.

Gypsum produced from the Phosphoric Acid factory and lime from the ZA factory can be utilized internally without being handed over to a third party by PT Petrokimia Gresik. Gypsum is a by-product that has economic value for the cement, plasterboard, brick and agricultural industry markets. Meanwhile, lime is a substitute material in reclamation activities in the company's internal area, which is followed by a reclamation permit from the Ministry of Transportation.

In the production process, Pupuk Indonesia Group uses natural resource raw materials, particularly gas and water, in an efficient manner as a commitment to environmental conservation. This effort is carried out by utilizing technology that is more friendly to the consumption of raw materials/tonnage of product which is smaller than the previous technology.

The efficiency of the plant is also operated by reusing wasted materials such as offgas, condensate water and rinsing water that is pulled back into the process as raw materials.

The reforestation program is an effort by Pupuk Indonesia Group in preserving the environment such as the urban forest program, planting rare trees, planting mangroves, planting regional specialties according to the location of the Subsidiary (to become KEHATI Park).