As a responsible industrial operator, TIGF has sets itself ambitious targets to guarantee an optimal level of safety for its pipelines and underground storage. Strict rules have been issued by the Administration in France, making pipeline transport the safest way of moving energy from place to place. Those rules are rigorously enforced by TIGF and the Regional Directorates of Environment, Planning and Housing (DREALs).

TIGF’s attention to the safety of people and plant is the result of a solid cultural heritage.  It is anchored in the very structure of the company’s organisation. TIGF’s HSEQ-DD (Hygiene, Health, Safety, Security, Environment, Quality and Sustainable Development) policy embodies both control of the industrial risks inherent in the activities of the gas industry and safety at the workstation.
Danger on the roads, identified as the top professional risk faced by TIGF staff, is covered by a special prevention policy.

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TIGF has introduced a Safety Management System based on the International Safety Rating System (ISRS). This rating process, introduced voluntarily in the early 2000s, has achieved level 8 (out of 10), one of the best levels in the profession.
The ISRS runs alongside Safety Management Systems (SMS) covering the storage facilities and the natural gas pipeline transport grid. These are focussed more on industrial risks.

In 2010, across 1,500,000 hours worked within TIGF premises (company staff and participating companies), the business recorded just 7 declared accidents.
8.3 million km were travelled in 2010, without a single road-related personal accident being recorded.

The graph below shows how the Declared Accident Frequency Rate (TFAD) has changed over the years. It has been reduced to a sixth of the 2002 level.

TFAD: Declared Accident Frequency Rate: Number of accidents with or without time off work per million hours worked
TFAA: Accident Frequency Rate with time off work:: number of accidents with time off work per million hours worked.
TG: Seriousness rate: number of days off work per thousand hours worked