The HSE management system requires organizations to conduct risk analysis to identify potential hazards and consequences arising from their own activities, and subsequently adopt effective preventive measures and control measures to prevent their occurrence, in order to reduce potential personal injury, property damage, and environmental pollution.

It emphasizes prevention and continuous improvement, featuring a high degree of self-restraint, self-improvement, and self-motivation mechanisms. Therefore, it is a modern management model and one of the modern enterprise systems.

Human beings themselves and the natural environment on which they rely for survival are the most important resources in the world. All industries must take ensuring employee health, preventing accidents, and protecting the environment as the starting point for all work.

Petroleum exploration and development, as well as refining and chemical engineering, constitute a complex systematic project, fraught with numerous hazardous factors during the production process. Over the past nearly 40 years of development, the HSE management system has gradually been established and advanced in China's petrochemical industry, both in terms of its management framework and operational mechanisms. As the "entry permit" for the international petrochemical sector, the HSE management system plays a pivotal role in mitigating environmental, safety, and health incidents within petrochemical enterprises.

Driven by major international oil companies and relevant organizations, and particularly under the shock of several major accidents in the oil industry, the HSE management system has been continuously evolving. Major oil companies have essentially formed their own unique HSE management system models.

The system is a perfect combination of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec) industry standards with international quality management systems, environmental management systems, and occupational health and safety management systems. It represents the only way for CNPC and Sinopec to align with international standards, protect themselves, avoid risks and hazards, ensure safe production, achieve continuous improvement, and provide effective industry quality assurance.