Environmental & Social Information • Mar 15, 2023
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Sustainability Report 2022
To lead the way in the delivery of fixed offshore wind projects, contributing to an efficient and sustainable energy supply for the future.
| Chief Executive Officer's statement | 1 |
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| Our approach to sustainability | 2 |
| Health, safety and wellbeing | 3 |
| Energy transition | 5 |
| Labour practices and human rights | 7 |
| Business ethics | 9 |
| Operational eco-efficiency | 11 |
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| Ecological impacts | 13 |
| Further sustainability topics | 15 |
| Community impact and relationships | 16 |
| ESG performance data | 18 |
| Acronyms | 23 |
Seaway7 supports the UN's Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs), which provide a framework for achieving the agenda and targets set by the UN Member States that collectively signpost what needs to be done to end extreme poverty, fight inequality and injustice and protect our planet. We have mapped our Sustainability Priorities against these goals which are highly relevant to our ambitions.
In 2022 the world has faced significant energy and climate change related challenges, which have further enhanced the ambitions of nations for energy independence, energy security and towards a Net Zero future. Locally generated renewable energy is our core business, and we aim to support our clients to accelerate the energy transition and to provide their customers with increasing volumes of sustainable and affordable wind power.
Seaway7 is a global leader in the delivery of fixed offshore wind projects. We are contributing to an efficient and sustainable energy supply for all our futures; this is what drives us every day.
As a competent and experienced partner, we offer specialist foundation, offshore substation, submarine power cable, wind turbine installation services and heavy transportation for the renewables sector. We have been involved in offshore wind projects since 2009, leveraging our extensive offshore contracting experience from the wider offshore energy industry. By supporting the offshore installation of close to 3 GW of offshore wind energy capacity, 2022 has been a record year for us.
Our Company values are at the heart of our business and guide the way we work with each other, our clients, investors and suppliers. Our values are embedded at all levels of the organisation, they drive our culture, our behaviour and represent how we think and act. Sustainability is one of our Company values and we will continue our push for a sustainable future for the world we live in.
Our people, together with our fleet and equipment, are our key assets. Seaway7 has a strong focus on the health, safety and wellbeing of our people. We maintain best practices when it comes to respecting human rights and adoption of good labour practices in our own organisation and in our supply chain. To further develop our Seaway7 culture, we have defined and launched in 2022 our employee value proposition, 'This is Our Way'. Developed by our employees, the employee value proposition describes the Seaway7 we all want to work for.
We recognise that our business landscape is changing and support the increased expectations from our employees, our clients and our shareholders. Our Company is committed to continuously integrating sustainability into our operations.
Seaway7 is a global leader in the delivery of fixed offshore wind projects. We are contributing to an efficient and sustainable energy supply for all our futures; this is what drives us every day.
We endeavour to improve our sustainability performance by putting efforts in the areas that matter most to us and our stakeholders. We welcome the development of enhanced transparency and more consistent sustainability reporting to support better decision-making.
Advancements in sustainability and ESG reporting such as the EU's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive/European Sustainability Reporting Standard and the Norwegian Transparency Act will provide the industry with reporting frameworks.
As a newly formed company formed by the merger of Subsea7's renewables business unit with OHT ASA, we confirmed our key sustainability priorities in 2021. We are pleased to share with you the progress we made in 2022 across our priority areas. In 2023 we will continue setting appropriate and clear targets and actions to set direction, to be transparent and to hold ourselves accountable.
Our focus is clear, we are committed to continuous improvement of our sustainability performance and to meeting our targets through 2023 and beyond.
Chief Executive Officer
We support offshore wind farm developers to bring renewable energy to the world. Seaway7 is equally committed to ensuring sustainable practices run throughout our business. We have made significant progress already in establishing a sustainable business that stands us in good stead for the future.
Our approach to sustainability and our targets are founded on our established Company policies on Health, Safety, Environment, Quality (HSEQ), Ethics and Human Rights. Seaway7's sustainability strategy is guided by the priorities of our major shareholder, Subsea7.
These priorities are:
In 2023 we will support Subsea7 in a planned review of the materiality assessment of the key priorities.
Seaway7's sustainability governance structure begins with the Board of Directors, who are responsible for guiding the Company's sustainability strategy. Our CEO updates the Board of Directors on important issues pertaining to the business, including sustainability. At senior management level, we have a Sustainability Committee, comprising the Executive Management Team, the Human Resources Director and the Operational Functions Director who report directly to the CEO. This committee enables a clear communication channel to assess sustainability matters pertinent to the business and to makes recommendations to the Board.
Board of Directors
CEO
Sustainability Committee
Sustainability Manager
Our stakeholders are important to us and we are aligning with their expectations on sustainability.
defines what is acceptable and what is expected in terms of corporate behaviour. We have a duty to respect the communities where we operate and the environments we work in.
expect us to operate safely, cleanly and with integrity.
expect us to keep them safe, treat them with respect and be a good employer.
expect us to be fair, balanced, and transparent in our interactions with the market around our approach to environmental, social and governance related risks and opportunities.
Our goal is an incident-free workplace. We work every day, everywhere to make sure all our people are safe.
We work closely and openly together with clients, partners and suppliers at a local and global level to deliver safer and stronger results for all.
We are driven to achieve the outcomes our clients want. We are trusted to achieve superior performance from every project.
We take a proactive approach towards our social responsibilities, mitigate the impact of our activities on our planet's environment and respond to the effects of climate change.
We apply the highest ethical standards in everything we do. We treat clients, our people, partners and suppliers fairly and with respect.
We create smarter and simpler solutions to meet the industry's needs. We combine technology, expertise, assets and partnerships to deliver projects in new ways.
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Promoting safe and healthy workplaces across our value chain where employees feel welcome and secure.
Providing a workplace that is incident- and injury-free at all times, everywhere.
Providing a workplace that encourages, supports and enables health and wellbeing choices and lifestyles.
The safety of our people is our first priority. Our workplaces are potentially hazardous, particularly when we are working offshore. We believe that all our people and those working on our sites are entitled to the same level of protection regardless of where in the world they work. It is essential that we have the right frameworks in place to enable our people to work safely. Our policies and training programmes are continuously reviewed to make sure that this is achieved.
We capture key lessons from our global operations to improve our systems, and to reduce and ultimately eliminate activities that have the potential to harm our people, the environment and cause damage to our equipment. We record all incidents and near misses in detail and investigate each event. Near misses can be defined as an event where something happened, nobody was injured, and nothing was damaged; however, had circumstances been slightly different it would have been an incident. By collecting this valuable information and tracking our performance in our Business Management System (BMS) we are able to continually seek to improve our safety performance. We drive performance improvement with an aim of achieving an incident-free workplace.
We are actively committed to our health and safety standards. We will always communicate openly on Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality (HSEQ) issues with our stakeholders and share with them our experience and knowledge of successful initiatives.
The importance of health, safety and wellbeing is recognised through a number of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. We strongly support these and work to ensure we create, maintain and promote a safe, secure and healthy work environment.
We believe that best performance is achieved when people are connected and engaged. Our senior management representatives maintain strong relationships with our vessels and site management teams through our worksite sponsor programme. This programme ensures our vessels and worksites are being properly supported by the organisation, HSEQ actions are being attended to and that senior management have a first-hand appreciation of the current situation and any critical issues on our worksites. Our commitment to health and safety in projects starts in the tender phase of a project and is followed through until project completion.
Assurance and verification of safety standards are key to consistently strong safety performance. Seaway7 checks activities against internal standards and processes as well as regulatory and legislative requirements. We undertake internal safety audits, which include checking our vessels, our procedures and our documentation. We also use external auditing to ensure we comply with regulatory obligations and our clients' requirements, and to enhance our supply chain oversight.
Seaway7 has operations around the world, and some of the places we work in are higher risk. We assess the security risks of countries, areas, hotels, airlines and other means of transportation, to make sure our people are secure and travel safely. We provide our people with onsite support as required to minimise the risk to personal security. This may include security personnel, Company-arranged transport, travel management plans and travel guides.
We recognise the importance of supporting the wellbeing of our people both for their own health as well as for our Company. We promote a healthy work-life balance through a wellbeing framework, with a combination of initiatives to protect against occupational health hazards, and to support employees in the workplace and at home. All employees have access to a confidential, third party managed Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides support for coping with life's challenges including health and wellbeing, financial problems, stress or anxiety and family issues.
Our employee survey includes wellbeing questions which allows us to understand the impact of our wellbeing tools and initiatives and to put in place impactful activities to address the feedback and to further support our people.
Seaway7 was established in 2021, when Subsea7's renewable business unit merged with OHT ASA. In 2022 we created and launched our new employee value proposition "This is Our Way", themed around a people powered future. The programme was developed by our people, for our people.
Despite having met our 2022 safety targets, we continue to consider that our human and organisational performance (HOP), coupled with our levels of engagement, will have a positive impact on our overall safety performance. This year HOP was introduced at an in-Company Safety Conference and the philosophy shared with the Company's HSE professionals. The HOP journey will continue in the next years to come. In 2022, the Safety Leadership Training programme continued and ISO45001 ("Occupational Health and Safety") certification was achieved. Due to revoked Covid-19 measures, the vessel sponsorship visit program was re-established and where possible face-to-face meetings were organised.
In 2022 we organised EAP sessions for managers as well as employees to raise awareness on what support is accessible through EAP. We will use the insights from our employee survey to put in place impactful activities to address the feedback and further support our people. To develop our Seaway7 culture, we defined and launched our employee value proposition. Developed by our employees, it describes the Seaway7 we want to work for. We have captured it as 'This is Our Way'. Work will continue to ensure a positive employee experience across all our people activities.
To further improve our business performance on the aspects of health, safety and wellbeing a number of initiatives are planned. Focus areas in 2023 will be:
We believe that focusing on consistent and predictable outcomes is necessary for delivering good quality. We will use our quality system to further underpin more predictable outcomes with a strong focus on quality assurance.
We will build further on our employee value proposition 'This is Our Way' launched in 2022. Our wellbeing initiatives will be further rolled-out and will be made clearly visible to all employees in each office location.
To lead the way in the delivery of bottom-fixed offshore wind farm solutions, contributing to an efficient and sustainable energy supply for the future.
Cumulative power capacity of offshore wind projects supported:
We support the development of affordable, reliable and sustainable energy and we are committed to progressing and supporting the transition towards lower-carbon sources of energy.
The energy transition is essential in reducing climate change and in improving energy security. Offshore wind is a reliable and affordable renewable energy source that supports counties in becoming more energy independent, and it plays an important role in the energy transition.
Offshore wind is our business and we support our clients to provide their customers with increasing volumes of affordable wind power. We utilise our skilled people and their wealth of marine construction expertise together with our construction vessels, equipment and facilities to develop and deliver the best and most cost-efficient offshore wind farm solutions. We are committed to further develop our people, capabilities and construction assets and to stay at the forefront of the safe, reliable and cost-efficient construction of large scale bottom-fixed offshore wind farms.
The Levelised Cost Of Electricity from offshore wind has decreased significantly over the past decade, driven by increased efficiency in transportation and installation, larger turbines, and cost improvements in the supply chain. Offshore wind farms are now economically viable at significantly lower levels of government subsidy. Looking ahead, further significant growth is projected in offshore wind as societies increase investment in renewable energy and energy independence. The pace and scale of developing offshore wind farms is anticipated to increase drastically in the second half of this decade.
Seaway7 was the first to install a monopile on dynamic positioning (DP) system, using sophisticated positioning systems and the vessel's thrusters to remain on station). In 2022 we have installed 119 monopiles whilst on DP across three different offshore wind farm developments.
After establishing Seaway 7 ASA in October 2021 when we combined Seaway7, the renewables business unit of Subsea7, with OHT ASA, in 2022 we have built further on our position in the renewables supply chain, providing our clients with foundation installation, substation installation, turbine installation, cable-lay and transportation services for the construction of offshore wind farms through various contracting models. By supporting the installation of close to 3 GW of offshore wind capacity and applying innovative installation methods, 2022 has been a record year for us. Across eight different offshore wind farm developments we installed 210 cables, 130 monopiles, 107 jackets, 128 pin-pile foundations and fabricated 61 suction bucket jackets.
We doubled the size of our Technology Development team to grow our innovation efforts and increased our involvement in offshore fixed wind Joint Industry Projects (JIP) in Europe and the US to accelerate innovation and industry problem-solving.
In 2023 we anticipate to take delivery of two new installation vessels, Seaway Alfa Lift and Seaway Ventus. Both vessels will support efficient development of offshore windfarms. For the Seaway Alfa Lift this can be found in the industrialised approach to the installation of larger monopiles and for the Seaway Ventus in her capability to install the next generation of wind turbines.
Utilising our extensive knowledge and experience gained from the installation of many fixed wind installation projects, we will continue to explore new and innovative ways to address the energy transition challenges facing the industry. Currently under development are alternative offshore wind turbine foundation concepts and installation methodologies.
Ensuring broad understanding of Seaway7 expectations and commitments in relation to the principles of the UN Global Compact.
Applying the principles of the UN Global Compact within Seaway7 and actively monitoring compliance.
Working with our suppliers and partners to see the principles of the UN Global Compact applied across the value chain.
In-line with our largest shareholder Subsea7, which is a signatory to the UN Global Compact, we support the commitment to respect and protect human rights (Principles 1 and 2) and to fair and lawful employment practices across the Company and throughout our supply chain (Principles 3, 4, 5, 6). We also support the International Labour Organization's standards regarding child labour and the minimum working age.
Our human rights programme has been designed to ensure we identify and manage human rights risks within our own operations and down our supply chain in accordance with emerging regulatory and stakeholder requirements and expectations, including in relation to supply chain "diligence" and transparency. It leverages the thinking that has gone into our Business Ethics compliance and the experience we have gained from that programme.
The programme is summarised in the diagram.
Our sector can present significant human rights risks, due to the type of work our people and many of our suppliers perform and the countries from which they come or in which they operate. Therefore, we want to ensure that we have assessed the risks correctly and have taken the right steps to mitigate or guard against them. These measures serve to strengthen our management system approach in accordance with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to prevent, address and remedy any risk of adverse human rights impact related to our activities. Our approach to anti-corruption, safety and security, and the environment also reflect our recognition of our human rights obligations.
Respecting human rights and adopting good labour practices is how we fundamentally do business. We aim to ensure fair and lawful employment practices and to provide a working environment free from discrimination, bullying and harassment, and no-one is ever mistreated, abused or exploited by us or anyone we work with. Maintaining good employee and supply chain relations also makes us a stronger and more reliable organisation capable of attracting and retaining talented people, and with which suppliers want to partner, around the world.
We maintain procedures by which people can pursue a remedy for any legitimate grievances they may have; and we encourage people to follow our Speak Up Policy and use Safecall or other Speak Up channels to raise serious concerns about any breach of our Code of Conduct or Human Rights Policy, or any failure by the Company to uphold its human rights commitments.
Seaway7 has a large and complex supply chain that to a large extent overlaps with the supply chain of our major shareholder Subsea7. Therefore, in the assessment of the supply chain we work closely with Subsea7 and apply the same frameworks.
Please refer to our website for more information on how we manage labour practices and human rights, www.seaway7. com/labour-practices-and-human-rights.
We continued to cooperate with Subsea7 to assess and mitigate or guard against human rights risks across the organisation and our supply chain.
During 2022, we implemented a new process for assessing human rights risks at or on our offices, sites and vessels across all locations, both in relation to our own staff and on-site suppliers' staff. We achieved our objective to identify the highest risks, with a particular risk base focus on child labour, slavery, trafficking, and other forms of forced or involuntary labour. The resulting mapping was used to define policy and procedure enhancements and appropriate action plans to implement them.
This year Subsea7 introduced an enhanced supplier human rights risk-tiering matrix, which takes into consideration the country risk (based on proprietary country risk data to which we subscribe) and whether the type of material or service provided by the supplier falls into a category which we deem potentially higher risk. Whilst the existing process already screens suppliers for human rights risks, we adopt the newly developed enhanced human rights assessment and due diligence questionnaire for high-risk suppliers.
By the end of 2022, a number of our high-risk suppliers that had been through the process and over 150 Subsea7 suppliers took part in a pilot implementation of the new due diligence questionnaire.
Our assessment of supplier risk primarily focuses on the potential presence of underage or low-skilled migrant workers, as these are the biggest risk factors for the risk areas we are prioritising. By prioritising these risk areas, we aim to be able to progress further down our supply chain faster.
In 2022 we continued to raise awareness of our human rights commitments and what they mean for Seaway7 and our suppliers. In-line with our 2022 target, we focused on training our management team members and those of our employees who need to have a good level of understanding, because their roles (including Human Resources, Legal and Contracts) mean they can and should help to identify and manage human rights risks in our operations or in our supply chain.
We aim to continue enhancing and embedding our Human Rights Programme to ensure we manage human rights risks effectively and can demonstrate that we are doing so. We will continue to work to ensure our programme aligns with international standards and stay abreast of evolving legal and stakeholders' expectations and requirements, such as the Norwegian Transparency Act and the forthcoming EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence directive. We will also start to develop assurance methodologies, so we can assess whether appropriate, effective human rights risk management procedures are in place in our operations and in our supply chain.
We will continue to support Subsea7 with the enhancement and roll-out of the supplier risk assessment procedures with the aim of putting 40% of high-risk suppliers through the enhanced human rights risk assessment and due diligence process by the end of the year. The results and lessons learned will be used to fine-tune our questionnaire before we integrate it into our procedures. We plan to roll out the questionnaire across all high-risk suppliers identified via an enhanced risk assessment process over the next three years.
Further training will likely take the form of equipping the same audience who completed the training in 2022 with more practical tools for identifying human rights issues among our own employees and supplier staff at our sites, or whilst visiting our supplier and project locations, and knowing what action should be taken. We will also continue to raise awareness across our supply chain, including by continuing to include human rights on the agenda at the planned supplier integrity event in 2023.
Embedding a culture of ethics, compliance and integrity.
Ensuring only those who uphold our commitments to ethical business conduct can work with or for us.
Ensuring we make a positive impact on business ethics in our sector, including the supply chain.
Our largest shareholder Subsea7 is a signatory to the UN Global Compact. Principle 10 of the UN Global Compact identifies the importance of businesses working against corruption in all of its forms. Through a range of initiatives and policy and process enhancements we have continued to strengthen our approach to maintaining ethical business conduct.
Integrity is one of our core values, and Seaway7 is committed to acting honestly, fairly and with integrity at all times, to comply with the law, and to treat people with respect. By so acting, we believe we can earn the trust of our clients, employees, business partners, suppliers and other stakeholders.
As with safety, we take a management system approach to embedding a culture of ethics and integrity and managing legal and reputational risks. In recent years, regulatory, stakeholder and societal focus on, and demands and expectations in relation to anti-bribery/anticorruption have remained strong, as does our focus on that topic too. Our sector can present significant corruption risks, as can many of the countries in which we operate. We all have a role to play in helping to combat corruption, and that includes requiring high standards and encouraging best practice in our supply chain. During 2022, international sanctions also became an even more prominent compliance risk area.
The Seaway7 Compliance and Ethics Programme has been designed to embed our Code of Conduct and help manage compliance and ethics risks. To help manage risks in our supply chain, our programme also includes our Code of Conduct for Suppliers, which sets out the key principles of ethical conduct that our suppliers are required to uphold, and a range of supply chain risk assessment and due diligence procedures.
Visit our website for more information on our Compliance and Ethics Programme.
GoodCorporationTM performed an independent assessment of our compliance and ethics programme. This assessment comprised policy and procedure review, interviews with management and other employees, and transaction sampling. It was undertaken in the Aberdeen and Zoetermeer offices, as well as through online interviews with personnel in other locations. Management will use the findings and recommendations to create prioritised action plans to improve the programme.
Seaway7 is part of the Subsea7 Group which has a well-established compliance and ethics programme. Seaway7 has commenced implantation of the Subsea7 Group compliance and ethics programme and will continue to follow and strengthen this process.
This year we held our first annual Global Integrity Day, which we believe will be one of the most impactful initiatives for encouraging, empowering and embedding a culture of integrity, and thereby incentivising and making more likely the effectiveness of our programme. This year's event was scheduled to coincide with UN International Anti-Corruption Day. We showed a presentation on Global Integrity Day, then had two panel discussions, at which our CEO and a business unit VP discussed what integrity and anti-corruption compliance mean to them and answered live questions with Subsea7's General Counsel and Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer.
A healthy Speak Up culture is essential to an effective compliance and ethics programme. Continuing our approach to making compliance and ethics training more engaging and thus more effective, this year we launched a new e-learning module which continued the successful style adopted in 2021 and this time focused on encouraging our people to Speak Up if they witness any dishonest, unethical or illegal conduct. With more than 650 employees of our targeted onshore workforce having completed the e-learning, we achieved our target.
Over the past year, Subsea7's focus has continued to be on implementing the Group's approach to assurance across Subsea7 and third parties. Seaway7 was assessed by an external expert firm to perform independent assessments of our anti-bribery/anticorruption programme.
We track all potential breaches of the Code of Conduct that are raised via our Speak Up channels or reported or detected locally, and we have a procedure for cases to be investigated conscientiously and without bias. More information about the Seaway7 Speak Up Policy can be found at www.seaway7.com/about-us/business-ethics.
The number of Speak Up cases so far this year points to some modest success in fostering a culture of Speaking Up. We will continue to do more to promote Safecall and other Speak Up channels.
Our supply chain to a large extent overlaps with the supply chain of our major shareholder, Subsea7. We will continue to support Subsea7 with embedding refinements to the supply chain risk assessment process. In 2023 there will be a particular emphasis on those engaged without a purchase order, to ensure any compliance and ethics risks are identified and mitigated. We also aim to refine those processes, with a view to ensuring they are consistently applied and as practical and effective as possible.
Reducing emissions from our operations.
Reducing our scope 3 emissions.
Working with our supply chain to offer lowercarbon alternatives to our clients.
We recognise the importance of being actively engaged in tackling the challenges facing our environment. We are undertaking initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility throughout our Company.
Seaway7 recognises the impacts of climate change and its potential effect on our business, our end markets and on society. We also see the importance of understanding climate related risks and opportunities and how they may impact our business.
Around the world, governments are setting ever more ambitious targets to reduce carbon emissions and wean their economies off highpolluting sources of power. Offshore wind is one of the technologies of choice to replace high-carbon fossil fuels in many of the world's major economies.
We are actively engaged in seeking ways to be more efficient in the way that we work and investing in solutions that lower our greenhouse gas emissions and those of our clients. Most of our emissions come from our vessels such that our carbon dioxide emissions correlate strongly with our operational activities throughout the year.
Two of Seaway7's vessels are listed with the Environmental Ship Index (ESI) in the World Port Sustainability Programme: Seaway Aimery and Seaway Moxie. The ESI identifies seagoing ships that perform better in reducing air emissions than required by the current emission standards of the IMO. In the coming year Seaway Alfa Lift and Seaway Ventus will be added to the fleet. Both vessels have been designed with a strong environmental focus.
Our new build Seaway Alfa Lift will be the largest and most innovative, custom-built offshore wind foundation installation vessel in the world. The vessel has been designed with the environment in mind. To reduce CO2 emissions, the vessel has an optimised hull design, eco-mapping, shore power options, possibility to install a battery hybrid system, and alternative fuel options. To remove SOx and soot, a Hybrid Scrubber is installed and to remove NOx, a system for Selective Catalytic Reduction is pre-installed and is expected to be commissioned in the coming years.
Our new build Seaway Ventus will be amongst the largest self-propelled jack-up installation vessels in the world. The vessel has been designed specifically to transport and install the next generation of offshore wind turbines and XL monopile foundations to the highest environmental standards.
Special emphasis has been placed on providing a class-leading environmental footprint by way of energy recovery from the crane and jacking system, enhanced heat recovery from the engines, battery hybrid solutions as well as a sophisticated electrical and control system. All together CO2 emissions will be reduced by 20% compared to similar units. The vessel will be prepared for hydrogen fuel cells which will cut emissions even further when such technology becomes available.
Seaway7 is globally certified to the Environmental Management Standard ISO 14001:2015. This standard applies to the management of our environmental responsibilities in a systematic manner including the enhancement of environmental performance as well as the achievement of our environmental obligations and objectives.
Our installation vessels are all diesel-electric powered, which essentially means they are floating power stations that generate electricity, but we do not necessarily need or use all the power all of the time. We are fitting our installation vessels with digital dashboards which provide visibility, in real time, where we can potentially reduce emissions through saving power and fuel.
We commenced installation of digital fuel flowmeters and digital dashboards across our installation fleet to optimise fuel/power management and thus reduce emissions.
We installed Becker Mewis ducts on three of our heavy transport vessels. With one more vessel to go we will in 2023 complete the installation of these well-proven devices that enable power savings and therefore reduce fuel consumption by approximately 5% on our heavy transport fleet.
With the support of Subsea7, which in 2022 ordered a hybrid battery system for the Seven Arctic, we performed a study on the design and analysis of a hybrid battery power system for our foundation installation vessel the Seaway Strashnov.
On the Hollandse Kust Zuid project we have pioneered installation of monopile foundations operating in dynamic positioning mode (DP). Working on dynamic positioning eliminated the use of anchor handling tugs to deploy the 8-point anchor mooring of the installation vessel, thus reducing emissions and improving the vessel time required offshore to install the foundations. We have updated the mapping of our energy contracts and energy saving initiatives for our office locations to include the changes following the combination of Seaway7 and OHT ASA in 2021.
We will complete installation of digital fuel flowmeters and digital dashboards across our installation fleet. Furthermore, we will continue with development and roll-out of our data driven Offshore Decision Support Tool. This tool delivers improved vessel operational efficiency during installation as well as optimised (weather based) routing during transit.
We will support Subsea7 with the development of a Carbon Management System tool (CMS). The aim is to establish a digital platform to track and report our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions such that our efforts and actions in reducing our emissions can become more focused and can be measured against baselines. The CMS will include our supply chain, which will support the focus on scope 3 emissions.
Further develop the technical solutions and business cases for investment decision on hybridisation of existing installation vessels and exploring the possibilities for powering the pile driving hammer electrically from the ship's power plant rather than from a dedicated stand-alone generator set.
To minimise and recycle all our waste.
Making a positive impact on marine life in each country where we operate.
Zero single-use* plastics onshore and offshore.
We recognise the importance and need for the business to encourage the development of environmentally friendly technologies. We are aware of the impact our activities may have on the environment and we are striving for ways to reduce impact through a range of initiatives.
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Safeguarding healthy ecosystems is essential to a sustainable future. The goods and services ecosystems provide are vital to sustaining wellbeing, and to future economic and social development.
Seaway7 understands the impacts our operational activities have on marine and land-based ecosystems and biodiversity. We have the responsibility to conduct our business in a way that considers the environment, and which aims to keep any negative impact to a minimum and put in place procedures to protect biodiversity and the ecosystems we work in.
Our HSEQ policy focuses on ensuring regulatory compliance and improving our environmental performance through careful selection of consumables and working practices designed to reduce waste, energy consumption and emissions. Seaway7's line managers are responsible for implementation and compliance with our policies and procedures within our BMS, ensuring that all employees and contractors are aware of their obligations and responsibilities.
Awareness of the impact that our activities may have on the environment and the management of measures to control such impacts is encouraged through:
Our environmental awareness training is mandatory for all new starters and covers environmental compliance, reporting environmental incidents, our impacts and the role of our employees and their actions. We recognise the impacts our operations may have on marine biodiversity above the water, below the water and on the seabed and are focused on minimising and mitigating these impacts.
We support BORA Blue Ocean Research Alliance® (a partnership between UK National Oceanography Centre and Subsea7). This alliance seeks to bridge the gap between industry and science in support of a sustainable marine future. This not-for-profit alliance will explore many opportunities to add value in understanding the health of our oceans and supporting biodiversity.
We have actively been involved in various joint industry projects (JIPs) aimed at reducing or mitigating the noise from piling operations by improving existing technologies and developing new. We pioneered the industry by using for the first time the vibro-tool monopile installation methodology on a commercial scale offshore wind farm development. Furthermore, we have continued the development of a novel wind turbine foundation concept that can be installed noise free.
Throughout 2022, we utilised our Company-wide single-use plastic dashboard to provide real-time visibility across our business, to discover where we need to reduce our consumption. Further to last year's four single-use plastic items, we continued to phase out a further two categories. A small number of sites and vessels still need to phase out existing stock, but we are ensuring no future purchases going forward for these categories. In addition, we are working on decreasing unnecessary plastic use for packaging from our supply chains or ensuring the plastic is at least recyclable.
In 2021, we installed on top of the scour protection on the Hollandse Kust Zuid project, at selected locations we installed nature-inclusive design (NID) elements aimed at supporting breeding of specific fish species. In 2022 we returned to these locations to collect data to share with the scientific community.
Our efforts to reduce and recycle our waste will continue throughout 2023. We will further enhance our waste management protocols.
We will continue to investigate possible partnerships that will help us to understand the marine ecosystems at our work sites.
In support of BORA Blue Ocean Research Alliance®, we will assess deployment of the BORAbox® on our vessels and projects. The BORAbox® is a suite of sensors fitted to ROVs or offshore infrastructure to collect data to enhance the reach and volume of ocean observations. Data collected is regularly processed for scientists to analyse and make available to the global science community. With a focus on measuring essential ocean variables, the BORAbox® measurements will monitor temperature, salinity and the carbonate system, all of which are vital in helping monitor the wellbeing of our seas and oceans.
We will continue to drive a zero single-use plastic guidelines and look at ways to reduce our dependence on single-use plastics on our sites and vessels and within our supply chain. This includes engagement with our people and our suppliers to raise awareness and re-state our intention to remove single-use plastics from our operations, onshore and offshore.
We will continue to investigate and develop wind turbine foundation designs and technologies aimed at reducing and mitigating the noise produced during offshore installation. Furthermore, we will develop nature-inclusive design in our projects, for example by investigating the use of more eco-friendly (e.g. with lower associated emissions) materials.
Continued commitment to supporting topics that are important to our people, our business and the society we are part of.
Our people are at the heart of everything we do and supporting all individuals to achieve their full potential is key to Seaway7's success. With our focus on renewable energy, we provide the opportunity to experienced new-hires to bring their existing skills and apply these in a new industry. Seaway7 uses a well-established range of learning and development tools to help our people grow their knowledge and abilities in different areas of the business.
Our aim is to provide all our people with opportunities to develop the skills, knowledge and experience that will allow them to perform at their best and make the most of their potential. We offer a framework of global learning to support personal and career development.
Development schemes, behavioural models, webinars and a variety of learning content are easily accessible via digital platforms, designed to promote inclusive and equal learning opportunities. Our employees are encouraged to take charge of their careers and, through one-to-one meetings supported by their direct managers, career development plans are created and reviewed on a regular basis. Areas for development are identified and can be supported by our learning and development tools. The process is driven by the individuals and supported by their functional managers.
In October 2022, Seaway7 organised the annual Festival of Learning event. There were over 500 course registrations for our sessions and workshops. We provided learning around themes such as digitalisation, sustainability, cross cultural communication, wellbeing and various technical topics.
We believe that everyone has the right to be treated fairly, with dignity and respect, and to have equal opportunities in a supportive, friendly and inclusive environment, free from all forms of discrimination, harassment or bullying. We are committed to providing a workplace where everyone can thrive. We value and promote diversity and regard it as a key to our success. An inclusive and diverse environment fosters creativity and innovation and improves decision-making by introducing new ways of thinking.
To support our ambition to provide equal opportunities to everyone in the organisation, a Diversity and Inclusion Steering Committee was established in 2021. Sponsored by a management team member, the Committee has representatives from different regions and parts of the business. The Committee's aim is to act as a role model for diverse and inclusive behaviours, influence others and spearhead the agenda, as well as set Seaway7's framework for success, ensuring the topic remains a Company priority and adapting the focus as the Company evolves.
Our custom-designed Seaway7 Graduate Programme has premiered this year and offers both on- and off-the-job development to graduates, exposing them to a variety of experiences and training in elements of project execution, from engineering to opportunities working offshore. We are pleased that 21 talents with 17 different nationalities are part of the 2022 programme and chose to start their career in renewables with us.
In 2022 Seaway7 employees proactively engaged with local communities through charitable events and business activities.
More than 70 participants, including family members and friends, from Seaway7's offices in Norway, the Netherlands and Germany came together on World Clean-up Day (17 September) in their respective locations to clean up as much litter as possible in their neighbourhood, the nearby beach and the inner-city.
The Oslo office strengthened local initiatives by participating in activities like litter picking at their children's football pitch and cleaning their neighbourhood. Our German colleagues put on their running shoes and went "plogging", a combination of picking-up waste whilst jogging, and cleaned their office surroundings. The Netherlands office have, under adverse weather conditions, collected 10 bags of garbage at the Kijkduin beach which will result in 10 trees being donated by the local beach club for their efforts.
In September 2022 Seaway7 launched a partnership with Global Energy Group and Seagreen Wind Energy Limited, the Monthly Hazard Observation Card Award, that benefits local charities and see them gain a £1,000 windfall. If employees identify any potential hazards or improvements on the project site at the Port of Nigg, they can submit a Hazard Observation Card (HOC) to their team leader with the best card each month chosen and the person submitting it asked to nominate a charity to receive a £1,000 donation.
Charities which have benefited include:
In April 2022 employees from the Aberdeen office rolled up their sleeves and gave their time to help paint and clean houses for refugees being re-homed in Aberdeen as a result of fleeing from the Ukraine conflict.
Whilst working on the Yunlin project our team on board the Maersk Connector completed a 24hr charity run, totalling 208 kilometers. Way to go! £360 (GBP) was raised onboard and another \$500 (USD) was also contributed by the welfare committee. Funds went to a Prostate Cancer Support Group, who provide support for men and families of those affected by prostate cancer.
By actively sharing information on the local environment and endangered species, we raise the awareness to our project team and our contractors on the biodiversity at worksites and on our vessels. At work sites where we connect the power cables coming from sea to the shore system, we undertake weekly walkabouts during which we include beach clean-up exercises. In 2022 one of our site teams supported the local community and local research institutes with the recovery of a beached white dolphin. White dolphins are a critically endangered species, and we have a specific awareness programme in place to identify and protect them at our work sites.
The summary table below represents a range of key metrics associated with our sustainability topics.
| Climate change and greenhouse emissions | ||
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| Performance indicator | Unit | 2022 |
| Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions | ||
| Scope 1 GHG emissions1,2 | CO2-e tonnes | 216.836 |
| Scope 2 GHG emissions1,3 | CO2-e tonnes | 78 |
| Scope 3 GHG emissions1,4 (GHG Protocol scope 3 Category 6 – business air travel emissions) | CO2-e tonnes | 573 |
| Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions | ||
| CO2 emissions5 | CO2 tonnes | 213.795 |
| Energy consumption | ||
| Fuel consumption | tonnes | 61.785 |
| Purchased onshore electricity from renewable energy tariffs | % | 79 |
| CO2 emissions and energy saving initiatives | ||
| CO2 emissions reduced from energy efficiency initiatives6 | CO2 tonnes | 16.155 |
| Fuel saved from energy efficiency initiatives6 | m³ | 5.839 |
| Renewable installed capacity | ||
| Cumulative offshore wind farm monopile foundations installed / (installed in 2022) | number | 769 / (130) |
| Cumulative offshore wind farm jacket foundations installed / (installed in 2022) | number | 259 / (107) |
| Cumulative offshore wind turbine generator foundations installed / (installed in 2022) | number | 1028 / (237) |
| Cumulative renewables cables installed / (installed in 2022) | number | 936 / (210) |
| Cumulative length of renewables cables installed / (installed in 2022) | kilometre | 1926 / (645) |
| Cumulative offshore substations installed / (installed in 2022) | number | 35 / (0) |
| Cumulative power capacity of renewables projects supported /(supported in 2022) | GW | 10.4 / (2.9) |
Our reporting on GHG emissions is based on carbon dioxide-equivalent (CO2-e), a standard unit for measuring carbon footprints. The conversion factors to calculate CO2-equivalent (CO2-e) are IEA for electricity and Defra for fuel/gas.
Scope 1 GHG emissions from Seaway7 owned vessels and from leased-in vessels that Seaway7 uses for a period of 12 months or more.
Scope 2 GHG emissions are emissions from purchased electricity (non-renewable sources) for our onshore facilities.
Scope 3 GHG emissions covers only emissions from business travel – air miles travelled by our people for work. Emissions data are pre-calculated and provided by external party.
Scope 1 CO2 emissions from Seaway7 owned and from leased-in vessels that Seaway7 uses for a period of 12 months or more.
Reduction in CO2 emissions and fuel saved resulting from energy saving measures.
| Environmental | ||
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| Performance indicator | Unit | 2022 |
| Emissions1 to air | ||
| NOx emissions | tonnes | 4.167 |
| SOx emissions | tonnes | 171 |
| Environmental incidents2 | ||
| Environmental incident frequency rate per 200,000 hours worked | rate | 0.83 |
| Spills | ||
| Number of environmental spills | number | 7 |
| Volume of environmental spills | litres | 610 |
| Environmental spill frequency in litres per 200,000 hours worked | rate | 22 |
| Number of significant3 spills >10m3 (hydrocarbon) |
number | 0 |
| Volume of significant3 spills >10m3 (hydrocarbon) |
litres | 0 |
| Waste generation and disposal | ||
| Hazardous waste generated from | ||
| Offshore1 | tonnes | 662 |
| Onshore5 | tonnes | 0 |
| Non-hazardous waste generated from | ||
| Offshore1 | tonnes | 915 |
| Onshore5 | tonnes | 25 |
| Total hazardous and non-hazardous waste directed to disposal from owned onshore sites | tonnes | 17 |
| Total hazardous and non-hazardous waste recycled from owned onshore sites | tonnes | 8 |
| % | 32 | |
| Non-hazardous waste generated from offshore6 segregated for recycling |
% | 65 |
| Environmental fees | ||
| Significant fines or non-monetary sanctions in excess of \$100k USD for non-compliance with environmental laws/regulations |
USD | 0 |
Notes
We report emissions (NOx and SOx), waste and spills from Seaway7 owned vessels and from leased-in vessels that Seaway7 uses for a period of 12 months or more.
An environmental incident is defined as an actual unplanned, uncontrolled or unauthorised release to the environment causing pollution to land, air, water or the seabed.
An environmental spill is reported as spills reaching gravel, soil, water, sewer systems or absorbing floors, even if only a small portion of the spill is not contained. Spills fully contained by drip trays, overflow tanks etc. are not considered environmental spills.
For Seaway7, significant spill is defined as the number of uncontained hydrocarbon liquids spills greater than 10 m³.
Onshore waste data is limited to Seaway7 owned worksites. We are working on the consolidation of this data to cover both owned and leased worksites.
Excludes an element of non-hazardous waste which cannot be recycled.
Social
| Performance indicator | Unit | 2022 |
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| Safety1 | ||
| Total recordable injury | number | 7 |
| Total lost-time injury (LTI)2 | number | 0 |
| Fatality | number | 0 |
| Total recordable injury frequency per 200,000 hours worked | rate | 0.25 |
| Lost-time injury frequency (LTIF) per 200,000 hours worked | rate | 0.00 |
| Serious injury frequency3 per 200,000 hours worked |
rate | 0.00 |
| Total near miss reports4 | number | 49 |
| Training on health and safety5 | ||
| Total days of health, safety and wellbeing training6 | days | 187 |
| Safety courses taken per person6 | average number | 1.54 |
| Health and wellbeing courses taken per person6 | average number | 0.27 |
| Emergency Response exercises conducted onshore7 | number | 18 |
| Human rights programme | ||
| Proportion of our workforce8 covered by human rights risk assessment within the last three years | % | 99.7 |
| Relevant employees9 trained on human rights |
% | 100 |
| High-risk suppliers undergoing enhanced human rights risk assessment | number | 3 |
| Suppliers with a contract that included human rights clauses | number | 369 |
| % | 46 | |
| Employee training and education5 | ||
| Number of courses taken per employee | average number | 10.6 |
| Hours of training undertaken per employee | average hours | 9.9 |
| Employee survey results | ||
| Satisfaction score for following statement: | ||
| "At Seaway7, people of all backgrounds are accepted for who they are" | Score out of 10 | 8.0 |
| "Employee health and wellbeing is a priority at Seaway7" | Score out of 10 | 6.6 |
| Social | ||
|---|---|---|
| Performance indicator | Unit | 2022 |
| Employment, new hires and turnover (as per 31 December 2022)5 | ||
| Total number of employees (headcount) | number | 689 |
| Employees by gender (male/female) | % | 74/26 |
| Employees by nationality: | % | |
| Europe | 88 | |
| Asia Pacific | 10 | |
| Americas | 1 | |
| Africa | 1 | |
| Employees by age group: | % | |
| under 30 | 12 | |
| 30-50 | 64 | |
| over 50 | 24 | |
| Permanent employees by employment type (full-time/part-time) | % | 93/7 |
| New permanent employee hires by gender (male/female) | % | 64/36 |
| New permanent employee hires by age group: | % | |
| under 30 | 31 | |
| 30-50 | 59 | |
| over 50 | 10 | |
| Permanent employee voluntary turn-over rate | % | 15.8 |
| Leadership diversity | ||
| Onshore leadership level by gender mix (male/female): | % | |
| Leadership group | 90/10 | |
| Executive Management Team | 83/17 | |
| Board of Directors | 60/40 | |
Safety data includes employees (permanent and non-permanent) and subcontractor or supplier employees working on behalf of Seaway7.
An LTI is a work-related injury/illness that results in the injured person (IP) being absent from work at least one normal shift after the shift on which the injury/illness occurred, because they are unfit to perform any duties. This applies whether the IP was scheduled to work or not.
For Seaway7, serious injury frequency is actual injuries that result in the injured person having a permanent impairment per 200,000 hours worked.
A near miss is an incident that has no actual consequences but does have potential negative consequences.
Only data for Seaway7 onshore personnel is provided here. Data for offshore personnel is reported through Subsea7 and OHT Technical Management.
Health and wellbeing courses apply only to those with access to our HR training platform.
Emergency Response exercises are based on simulated scenarios developed to reflect potential offshore or onshore operational issues and are conducted by the onshore support team.
The proportion of Seaway7's permanent and non-permanent workforce headcount who work across all our offices and sites.
Relevant employees refer to those employees who need to have a good level of understanding of human rights because their roles mean they can and should help identify human rights risks.
| Governance | ||
|---|---|---|
| Performance indicator | Unit | 2022 |
| Compliance and ethics programme | ||
| Proportion of the business covered by an independent anti-corruption compliance programme assessment | % | 100 |
| Speak Up channel and culture | ||
| Speak Up and other compliance and ethics cases1 | number | 3 |
| Speak Up and other compliance and ethics cases1 frequency per 1,000 employees |
rate | 4.35 |
| Compliance and ethics cases1 relating to: |
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| Human rights | number | 0 |
| Labour practices (including grievance) | number | 0 |
| Discrimination | number | 0 |
| Human rights impact on local communities | number | 0 |
| Communication, education and training | ||
| Governance body members2 that have received training on compliance and ethics (including anti-corruption) |
number | 27 |
| % | 90 | |
| Employees that have received compliance and ethics training3 | number | 681 |
| Proportion of our workforce required to complete compliance and ethics training3 | % | 99 |
| Categories that have had Seaway7 anti-corruption policies communicated to them: | ||
| Governance body members2 | number | 27 |
| % | 90 | |
| Suppliers | number | 369 |
| % | 46 | |
| Employees | number | 681 |
| % | 100 | |
| Supply chain management | ||
| Medium- and high-risk4 suppliers assessed for corruption risk |
% | 67 |
| Other | ||
| Monetary value of financial/in-kind political contributions made by Seaway7 | USD | 0 |
Notes
Compliance and ethics cases include all alleged or suspected breaches of the Code of Conduct, whether raised via Safecall or reported via other channels. Excluding duplicate concerns.
Governance body members include directors of Seaway 7 ASA and wholly owned subsidiaries of Seaway7 ASA.
Training on compliance and ethics including anti-corruption. Training is conducted through e-learning, general and targeted workshops.
4.Seaway7 considers any supplier in a highrisk country as medium-risk or, if it interacts with public officials on our behalf, high-risk.
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| CMS Carbon Management System |
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| Defra Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (United Kingdom) |
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| DP Dynamic Positioning |
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| EAP Employee Assistance Programme |
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| ESG Environmental, Social and Governance |
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| ESI Environmental Ship Index |
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| EU European Union |
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| EVP Employee Value Proposition |
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| GHG Greenhouse Gas |
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| GW Gigawatt |
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| HOC Hazard Observation Card |
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| HOP Human Organisational Performance |
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| HR Human Resources |
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| HSEQ Health, Safety, Environment and Quality |
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| IEA International Energy Agency |
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| IP Injured Person |
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| ISO International Organization for Standardization |
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| JIP Joint Industry Project |
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| LTI Lost-time Injury |
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| LTIF Lost-time Injury Frequency |
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| NID Nature Inclusive Design |
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| NOx Nitrogen Oxides |
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| SDG Sustainable Development Goal (United Nations) |
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| SIF Serious Injury Frequency |
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| SOx Sulphur Oxides |
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| UN United Nations |
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