Enhancing Workplace Safety – Safety is of Highest Importance for Rain Carbon
Our employees are the main drivers of our business success. By ensuring the safe operation of our plants, we are protecting the health and safety of employees, visitors and neighboring communities. In addition, we are responsible for protecting the health and safety of all users of our products, including the employees of our customers. By providing updated and adequate safety information for our products, we are doing our part to create safer workplaces for our customers. Through our Global Safety, Health & Environmental (SH&E) Policy, we are committed to:
- Protecting the health and safety of all who are part of our operations, live in the communities where we operate and use our products
- Conducting business with respect and care for the environment
- Having a systematic approach to SH&E management designed to ensure compliance with all relevant laws and regulations and achieve our commitments to SH&E
- Eliminating all injuries, occupational illnesses, unsafe practices and environmental incidents resulting from our activities
- Striving for world-class operating excellence by integrating our SHE principles throughout our businesses with a focus on continuous improvement
- Including SH&E performance in the appraisal of our staff
We have implemented multiple initiatives – such as the Quest for Zero initiative, the Safety-First 2.0 initiative and our Life-Saving Rules -- to ensure a safe work environment for all employees, contractors as well as visitors and local communities.
Quest for Zero Initiative
After launching our Quest for Zero initiative in 2018, which supports our aim to become an incident-free organization, we began introducing organization-wide training and awareness-building measures in 2019. The aim of the initiative is to develop a culture in which employees are encouraged to adopt safety as a behavior in all aspects of their lives. Employees should be able to recognize un¬safe situations and feel empowered to pro¬actively act and implement preventive mea¬sures to avoid incidents.
Safety-First 2.0 Initiative
Rain Carbon has developed the Safety-First 2.0 initiative that began in May 2022 to understand where we stand with regard to occupational safety and what issues we must focus on to improve the most. The Safety-First 2.0 initiative implemented detailed practices for increased management involvement at the site level, increased meetings with our con¬tractors and visitors to discuss SH&E, management-of-change improvements, and increased SH&E training at all of our sites (e.g., annual hazard-identification training and global post-incident refresher training).
Rain Carbon’s Life-Saving Rules
To help maintain our high level of safety performance, our global SH&E organization initiated the Rain Carbon Life-Saving Rules (LSR) campaign in 2021. The campaign includes nine LSRs that we view as the most important for employee safety and that are being implemented over a three-year period. The global SH&E team has minimum directives for implemen¬tation at each site. Each site must meet these mini¬mum requirements related to each rule, train all employees on the new pro¬cedures, to purchase any equipment, as needed, and to begin implementation. For the first four rules (Control of Hazardous Energy, Work Authorization, Con¬fined Space and First Break), directives, training, site-walkthroughs and local guidelines have been fully developed and integrated.
President ’s Safety Excellence Award
In recognition of our production facilities that have gone one year or more without a recordable injury, we launched the President’s Safety Excellence Award in 2021. In 2022, 10 Rain Carbon production facilities were recognized for their outstanding safety performance – including our Purvis carbon calcination facility in the United States that has gone more than a decade without a recordable injury.
