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Suncor: report on sustainability 2014

Social performance

$4.2 million

We strive to be a responsible corporate citizen.
total contribution to Southern
Alberta lood relief efforts
That includes ensuring workplace safety,

engaging with stakeholders, partnering with

Aboriginal businesses and investing in the

communities where we operate.

Safety
on principles of transparency, timeliness, mutual
We always rank safety as our top priority.
respect and mutual beneit.

We believe no job is so urgent or routine that
it can’t be done safely. We seek to eliminate
Community investment

all workplace incidents – a goal summed up in Our core purpose is to create energy for a
the title of our Journey to Zero safety program.
better world. Our commitment to community

investment is at the heart of that mission.
Our recordable injury rate frequency declined by

ive per cent in 2013 compared to 2012, while In 2013, we, along with our charitable
our lost time injury frequency rate increased organization, the Suncor Energy Foundation

slightly, from 0.05 to 0.06. We also marked (SEF), continued to make targeted investments
several safety milestones in 2013. Among them:
in ive key areas:

– In April, our St. Clair ethanol plant celebrated
– strengthen communities by cultivating
ive years injury free.
community leaders

– In July, our In Situ operations marked
– support building skills and knowledge
15 million exposure hours and two years
for the current and future workforce

without a lost time incident.
– foster the ability to think creatively through
– In September, turnaround work in
inspiring innovation

Upgrader 1 and Energy & Utilities reported – build employee and volunteer capability by
zero lost time incidents in more than
engaging citizens in community activities

3.5 million hours worked.
– engage employees and communities in
collaborating for the energy future.

Five separate fatalities near our Oil Sands site
earlier this year were sad reminders that we can Collaboration is central to our community

never let up on our journey toward ensuring investment strategy. We are here to connect
every employee and contractor goes home and support, as well as learn from, our partners.

safely at the end of the day. Incidents like these We believe we can be an effective partner in

are tragic and unacceptable – and we are supporting sustainable communities and
determined to learn all we can to prevent
addressing complex social challenges by

any reoccurrence.
working collaboratively.

Our stakeholders
Some examples of this strategy in action:
Developing and maintaining positive, – Social Prosperity Wood Buffalo (SPWB) is a

meaningful relationships with all of our ive-year partnership between stakeholders
stakeholders is critical to beginning the next in the Wood Buffalo region, the SEF and the

conversation that will help us ind better, more University of Waterloo. The goal is to improve
sustainable solutions. We strive to understand the quality of life in rapidly growing Wood

the interests, issues, needs and concerns of our Buffalo through community-driven strategies
stakeholders – and we engage with them based
to strengthen the social proit sector.