Since Hexion began training and tracking Severe Incident Factors (SIF’s) in 2013, the Company has decreased SIF injuries by 95 percent between 2013 and 2020. This means that our associates and contractors are experiencing significantly fewer incidents that carry the potential to cause serious or permanent harm. Hexion is very proud of our associates and their commitment to a safety mindset. Our associates are the ones that have made continual improvements in safety possible while striving for zero incidents.
Ensuring the health and safety of our associates, customers, communities, and stakeholders is a minimum expectation from our value chain and considered our “social” license to operate. We are excited to report that our Occupational Illness and Injuries Rate (OIIR) dropped to 0.45 from 0.51 in 2019 and 0.88 in 2018 and our lowest rate ever recorded. This is another indicator of our continued focus and success in addressing safety.
Policies, standards and guidelines are just words – words that instruct us on what to do and what not to do; but a safety mindset is what turns safety policies into a reality. This means living this mindset and attitude, every minute of every day.
We can have the best safety policies, procedures and equipment, but for us to operate in a manner that guarantees that every associate and contractor gets home in the same shape they arrived to work, and remains in that healthy and safe condition, everyone must adopt, commit and practice to living a mindset where safety is paramount 24/7.
