Dubai, UAE; December 06, 2016: Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC) hosted Yearly Business Excellence Awards to honour workers for innovative suggestions and payment to attaining new standards in high quality and excellence.

As part of the occasion, 120 staff members were honoured for initiatives that improved operational and business effectiveness, boosted health & security requirements, and enhanced employee spirits. Award classifications consisted of Ideal Monitoring System Representative, Finest Internal High quality Auditor, Best Retail Website and Best HACCP Auditor.

Because its inception, ENOC Innovate, the Group's employee recommendation scheme, received 1,587 suggestions and assisted the Group save over AED69 million with the application of 21 winning suggestions that have added to ENOC's high quality standards.

In 2016, ENOC established another landmark in quality and excellence by finishing movement to the upgraded ISO 9001: 2015 accreditation for Top quality Management along with the ISO 14001:2015 for Environment Management, ahead of the due date in September 2018.

His Excellency Saif Humaid Al Falasi, Group Chief Executive Officer of ENOC, claimed: "Dubai is developing itself as a knowledge-based economy as our visionary rulers apply programs that motivate innovation and creativity. As a Dubai Government-owned organisation we are very much a part of this journey. At ENOC, innovation, high quality, creative thinking and empowerment become part of our organisational society. The company's devotion to business quality has actually added to a continuous stream of success tales that attained significant savings."

Structure on its dedication to innovation and quality, ENOC plans to develop a commercial innovation committee to advertise a society of innovation and encourage knowledge-exchange among the key players in the oil and gas industry.

ENOC has likewise established a new strategic campaign as Process Excellence, using the assistance of Lean and Six Sigma (LSS) techniques. The executed LSS projects include reducing project preparation to design & develop brand-new filling station websites, boosting gas giving ability of pumps and boosting automobile evaluation and registration process at Tasjeel sites.

The UAE Innovation Week, launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum is a platform to display various government efforts, along with events and tasks by the government, the private sector and academic entities.