Industrial safety – a comprehensive program which is bearing its fruit

Known as “Safety in Action”, the industrial safety program of the Arkema group has been deployed around the world. It is based on three complementary components: technical, organizational and human.

The Arkema group is convinced that its heightened performance in industrial safety is closely related to the establishment of a safety culture common to the entire group.

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The “Safety in Action” program transforms this conviction into concrete commitments. It involves every Group site and employee around the world. The areas of action mainly revolve around the prevention of major industrial risks (technical component), the efficiency of safety management systems (organizational component) and safety at the workstation (human component).

Description of the ten items of the Group's safety policy

Safety indicators show improvement

Thanks to its efforts to improve safety, the Arkema group has succeeded in reducing the frequency of accidents at its facilities.

       

Lost Time Incident Rate

The number of accidents resulting in time off work per million hours of work dropped from 3.6 in 2006 to 1.9 in 2012.

 

       

Total Recordable Incident Rate

The number of accidents with and without time off work fell from 8.4 in 2006 to 3.4 in 2012.

 

The Group’s target is to achieve a 2.0 TRIR rate by 2020 latest

 

The Arkema group is committed to the Responsible Care® program

As a responsible firm, the Arkema group has committed itself to the Responsible Care® program, a voluntary commitment by industrial chemical companies around the world to improve safety and the protection of human health and the environment. Responsible Care® is an initiative under the auspices of the International Council of Chemical Associations (ICCA).