This document summarizes a substandard diesel issue that occurred in Sri Lanka in 2012. It discusses the root causes, such as outdated testing standards and dissatisfying supplier responses. Consequences included damage to thousands of government and consumer vehicles. Strategies to address the issue included forming an investigative committee, paying compensation, and suspending the supplier. Recommendations to prevent future unethical behavior focused on establishing new policies, examining suppliers more closely, and regulating laws and organizations more strictly.
2. What Are Ethics?
Ethics are the code of moral principles and values
that governs the behaviors of person or a group
with respect to what is right or wrong.
3. Why Do The Organizations Need Ethics?
Attract customers to the firm's products
Attract investors and keep the company's share
price high
To control high competition among businesses
To protect consumer's rights
Improve consumer confidence
5. Vision
To be the premier customer driven, environmental
friendly, enterprise in the petroleum and related
industries in the region while contributing towards
the prosperity of our nation.
6. Mission
To achieve excellence in refining, sales and marketing of
high quality products and meet the expectations of the
stakeholders through a dedicated team of professionals
and a loyal & efficient dealer network and by providing
total solutions and services exceeding customer
expectations, while utilizing a high technology base for
growth and development of the enterprise with total
employee participation and innovation, by maintaining
high ethical norms in all its activities and with highest
concern for health, safety and environment.
8. First Fiasco High Sulphur Fuel Oil by Elibank Germany, to
Independent Power Producers in 2009
Second Fiasco Dirty Petrol contaminated or substandard
gasoline (petrol) by CPC
Third Fiasco Jet A1 Fuel Oil (Aviation Fuel Oil) supplied by
British Petroleum Singapore Pvt. Ltd., in May 2012
Fourth Fiasco distribution of Dirty Diesel (Gas Oil) and/or
off-specification/contaminated Diesel (Gas Oil) by CPC
throughout the country 2012. supplied by Singapore based
company Vitol
9. Root Causes For The Importation Of
Substandard Diesel
Outdated lab testing standards and lack of lab
facilities
Delayed arrival of products
Dissatisfying Response for Bid Invitations
11. Government
Mostly damaged A large number of state vehicles
18 of the container cranes at the ports authority
SLTB has suffered losses of around Rs.6 million
26 vehicles of the Department of Post
Several train engines have encountered
12. Consumer
20000 tons of diesel entered the market
150 complaints about cases of stalling of vehicles
CPC accepted that the cause of the damage
13. Strategies To Fix Adverse Impact
Appointed a three member committee
Pay compensation
Testing samples of low quality petrol
Suspended the tender of a Singaporean company
that supplied substandard fuel to the CPC.
14. Recommendations To Prevent Such
Unethical Behavior
Introduce new Policies and Practices to regulate ethical behavior
Examine the ethical climate and put safeguards
Do a depth analysis about the suppliers
Compliance officers must be appointed to keep a check on fraud,
corruption, and abuse within the organization.
Separate auditing from consulting functions
Establish an Ethics Committee
Regulate laws and regulations accurately towards the wrong
doers.