Safety program and performance

People safety

It is our belief 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 2019 through 2023, we reduced our OSHA incident rate by 3% and reduced our process safety incident rate by 78%. 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:

• report and learn from leading parameters such as Near misses (events that had no impact but did have the potential to result in injury, ill health, or damage to assets or the environment) and Hazards (any condition or situation that could potentially harm people, products, or the environment).
• investigate and analyse each incident that occurs at our sites and develop Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) alerts for alle focus events, outlining root causes as well as key learnings from the incident.
• use a Behavior-Based Safety (BBS) program at all locations to identify unsafe behaviors, train front-line leaders, and inspire behavioral change among employees and contractors to minimize potential hazards in the workplace.
• audit each site to ensure that it has informed and involved the communities in which it operates and conducts training and emergency drills on a regular basis and document outcomes and lessons learned.
• identify chemical hazards at each site location and a list of the chemicals and safety data sheets (SDS) used is mandatory.
• host an annual company-wide Safety Day to promote employee awareness and strengthen our global safety culture.

Our commitment to safety has resulted in 32 years without incident at our Paulinia site and our Mahad site in India marking 12 years injury free.