Safety program and performance
Continually Improving Our People and Process Safety
Continually Improving Our People and Process Safety
Safety first
One of Nouryon’s Values is ‘We do it right’ and this includes a culture of safety awareness to protect our people, contractors, customers, communities, and the environment.
Our Safety Ambition: zero injuries and harm
Our goal is to continually improve our performance, with the ambition of achieving zero injuries, waste, and harm. We have set internal goals to eliminate workplace injuries and have several strategies in place to keep improving our safety performance, including our Behavior-Based Safety and Process-Safety Management programs. As a result of these strategies, from 2018 through 2022, we reduced our OSHA incident rate by 12% and reduced our process safety incident rate by 79%. We continue to pursue improvements in our safety performance, for example, by focusing on leading indicators, emphasizing hazard recognition, and improving incident learning.
In 2022, Nouryon was recognized with a number of safety related awards.
49% Recordable incident rate decrease between 2018 and 2021
74% Process safety incident rate decrease between 2018 and 2021
Awarded 13 Responsible Care® Facility Safety Awards by the American Chemistry Council (ACC) in 2021
Top-quartile performer in people safety
Safety Performance Awards and Recognition
In 2022, our strong safety performance was acknowledged by external organizations around the world. The awards included 17 awards from the Texas Chemical Council (TCC) and Association of Chemical Industry of Texas (ACIT) in recognition of our US efforts in continuous improvement in safety, emergency response, security, and environmental stewardship during the previous year.
We are very proud of our teams in Texas for consistently meeting or exceeding safety standards and environmental performance. The annual TCC-ACIT awards recognize the programs Nouryon has in place to protect the communities in which we operate and keep our employees safe.
Also in the past couple of years, our safety performance was acknowledged by external organizations around the world:
It is our belief s that safety must be embedded in our culture at every level and has leading management systems in place to drive continuous improvement. As a result of these strategies, from 2018 through 2022, we reduced our OSHA incident rate by 12% and reduced our process safety incident rate by 79%. We continue to pursue improvements in our safety performance, for example, by focusing on leading indicators, emphasizing hazard recognition, and improving incident learning
Among other things, we proactively:
We strive to deliver leading performance in HSE&S. Nouryon established a Process Safety Management (PSM) program for all operations in 2015, in alignment with industry standards and best practices. Our PSM framework is designed to prevent incidents and keep our facilities and people safe. PSM applies a management system and controls at our manufacturing sites, so that hazards are assessed, understood, and managed.
In 2022, we continued to raise awareness and improve reporting of process safety indicators. As our performance in process safety has improved, we have shifted our focus to leading indicators. We review all incidents and near misses on a weekly basis. The total number of incidents involving a (Levels 1 and 2) process safety event (PSE) decreased by 83% between 2018 and 2022.
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