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Recently, we posted the first part of our Corporate Responsibility Report blog series focusing on Environmental Responsibility. This series will cover each of West’s key areas of focus where we feel we can make the greatest impact: Environmental Responsibility, Health and Safety, Compliance and Ethics, Diversity, Philanthropy and Quality. In this part of the series, we are focusing on Health and Safety, and the proactive approach West is taking in this area.
At West, we believe that a healthy and safe workplace is a fundamental right of everyperson. We take responsibility for maintaining a safe workplace at every site and work hard to minimize the risk of incidents, injuries and exposure to health hazards for all team members, contractors and visitors. It is West’s policy to comply with all applicable health and safety laws and regulations, designing and operating our facilities to provide team members with a healthy and safe workplace.
We firmly believe in the importance of cultivating a culture of safety where every team member has a shared responsibility and is engaged in safety. This mindset is led by our President and CEO, Eric Green. At each company-wide meeting, he includes a message about safety, often reciting his commonly used statement, “one incident is one incident too many.”
Each facility at West has a Health and Safety committee, comprised of a variety of team membersat the site. The responsibility of each of these committees is to:
A culture of safety is evident throughout our sites. Many locations hold an annual Safety Week, to engage our team and help them develop a safety mindset. Safety Week events include health and safety education and training, and often a series of activities, games and contests, all focused around health, safety and accident prevention.
In 2017, West began planning for the roll out of a new Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Management System, which is designed to establish a global, uniform approach to key areas of HSE, all tied to leading indicators, utilizing proactive activities and controls to help reduce and/or eliminate accidents within operations. This system will include a new HSE tracking software that has the capability of entering specific events (such as incidents, near misses, behavior-based safety observations and environmental activities) in a more efficient and effective way.
Click here to view the full 2017 Corporate Responsibility Report.
Although Corporate Responsibility is often most thought of as caring for the environment and giving back to local communities, we firmly believe that it also means taking responsibility for the health and safety of our team members, contractors and visitors, and working to safeguard them against work-related accidents and illnesses. It is West’s policy to comply with all applicable health and safety laws and regulations, and we are committed to designing and operating our facilities to provide a healthy and safe workplace.
The health and safety of our team members has always been West’s top priority. This mindset is supported by our Board of Directors and is led by our President and CEO, Eric Green, who often reiterates his belief that “one incident is one too many.”
<p>We are proud to announce our inaugural Corporate Responsibility Report. West’s commitment to sustainability and remaining active in the areas where we live and work are integral to West’s culture. In Parts 1-3 of this five-part blog series on the report, we focused on West’s efforts in <a href="/blog/2017/june/corporate-responsibility-for-2016">Compliance and Ethics</a>, <a href="/blog/2017/july/corporate-responsibility-report-part-2-philanthropy">Philanthropy</a> and <a href="/blog/2017/july/corporate-responsibility-report-part-3-celebrating-diversity">Diversity</a>.</p><p>The fourth part of the five-part series on West’s Corporate Responsibility discusses West’s Health and Safety programs.</p>
Deep-rooted in West’s culture, the health and safety of our team members has always been our top priority. And this remains consistent and strong despite the challenges brought on by COVID-19. Recently, our manufacturing plant in Sri City, India achieved 2,000 recordable incident free days, which is a tremendous milestone that demonstrates the team’s collaboration and commitment to safety at all levels of staff, from management to the plant floor.
We are very pleased to announce that two of our sites in Asia Pacific have received two additional safety accreditations recently, which further demonstrates and acknowledges our team’s continuous commitment to health, safety, and environment throughout West and the industry.
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