(55b) Behavior of Employees,

Since developed and implemented HSE management system in 2001, China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (hereafter referred to as ?Sinopec?) always focus on behavior of Employees to achieve the common objective and commitment of all personnel in company ???Preventing accident and avoiding injury?. Sinopec has used a series of methods and established several rules and criteria to monitor the behavior of employees. Job Safety Observation is one of the effective approaches to prevent accidents. Taking daily inspection respectively by managers and operators can find hazards in facility and correct unsafe behaviors of employees. By taking these approaches, Sinopec has achieved obvious performance improvement that the number of the major accidents decreased from 69 in 2001 to 30 in 2006