Infineum Sustainability Report 2023

07

Safety

A comprehensive
approach to safety

‘Nobody gets hurt’ remains Infineum’s first priority. We believe that anyone working for Infineum has the right to return home at the end of each day in the same state of health and wellbeing as they began it, and that all incidents, injuries, and occupational illnesses are preventable. Our goal is to ensure zero harm to our people and the environment.

It is the responsibility of all our sites to efficiently and effectively follow the same Operations Integrity Management System (OIMS) to successfully manage the health, safety and wellbeing of all colleagues and contractors working on our sites.

OIMS ensures that hazards are systematically identified, assessed, and controlled, and are managed in compliance with health, safety and environmental laws. We regularly conduct internal and external assessments of OIMS at all sites, turning observations into actions to continually improve our systems, whether this involves addition of preventative actions, or simplification of processes or procedures.

OIMS is certified equivalent to the international ISO 45001 standard for health and safety. It defines our way of working and is at the core of everything we do.

Embedding our safety culture in everything we do

A robust safety culture is embedded into our everyday processes and is maintained through strong safety leadership, simple messaging and clear metrics that focus on incident prevention.

Whilst our sites have teams of HSSE professionals supporting their activities, everyone at Infineum is required to take responsibility for protecting themselves, colleagues, contractors and the environment. All colleagues choose safety goals every year that become part of their annual performance review.

To ensure that our colleagues go home in the same condition they arrive to work, regardless of whether working onsite, travelling on business, or visiting third party locations, everyone is empowered by our Chief Executive Officer to stop work if they feel unsafe at any time. Indeed, we encourage employees and contractors to challenge unsafe behaviour, and call attention to safe behaviour.

If they see something, we expect them to say something and report it as a ‘Behavioural Based Safety Observation’ (BBSO).

Our safety culture is embedded from day one, starting with our site safety inductions, then progressing depending upon the role of the colleague or contractor.

Hazard identification is crucial, it enables us to provide robust risk assessments supported by strong preventative actions. Should an incident occur, we conduct thorough investigations to identify the root cause and apply all necessary actions.

All actions, whether arising from a risk assessment, OIMS assessment or incident investigation, are tracked through to a timely completion.

Safety incidents and relevant learnings are shared with the entire organisation through monthly HSSE reports and quarterly functional safety meetings.

In a robust safety culture, communication is never just one way - we listen to our colleagues on safety related matters, analysing feedback from safety standdowns and global meetings, incorporating learnings into our global systems to support our continuous improvement journey.

Zero harm to our people and the environment

Our strong safety culture and management systems enable us to deliver excellent safety performance.

Infineum is a top performer on personal safety results, for both our colleagues and contractors, appearing in the top 10% of the chemical industry.

However, we always aspire to do better and with our 2025 ambition of ‘zero harm’, we are aiming for zero personal, process and environmental incidents in our operations.