Ensuring the health, safety, and security of all those involved in our operations is of the utmost importance.

Our environment, health, and safety policy describes how we protect our employees, contractors, local communities, and the environment. Each country has a health and safety coordinator who implements the policy with the support of our corporate sustainability team.

Our comprehensive Health and Safety Management System contains the elements and tools needed to implement the policy, including leadership and management participation; audits and inspections; health and safety training; risk assessment and accident investigation; emergency preparedness; and contractor safety.

A key part of this system is our electronic monitoring and tracking platform, which allows plant supervisors to access accident data in real time, share best practices, and alert other managers to potential safety concerns. All of our sites must follow the safe operating procedures in place for all high-risk tasks. Further safety guidelines are available for other areas, including industrial hygiene, risk assessment, and fire prevention.

To ensure that our employees have the knowledge and tools to assure their safety and that of their coworkers, we provide them with protective equipment and rigorous instruction, using the most advanced training technology. Our ultimate safety goal is to provide a workplace completely free of accidents. We aim to ensure the well-being of our employees and to comply with international health guidelines.

We have developed health-awareness and preventive-care programs that help our people address physical, environmental, and behavioral factors that could lead to sickness or injury. We provide on-site seminars to our employees on such topics as nutrition, ergonomics, and stress management.

We also offer preventive health screenings for cardiovascular, respiratory, vision, and other physical risks. To fight the spread of infectious disease, we have established vaccination programs for employees at many of our locations around the world. We have started to implement a health program that covers a range of occupational and general health issues, including, but not limited to dust, noise, and vibration; smoking; travel medicine; mental health; and specific diseases such as HIV/AIDS, typhoid, and malaria.