健康与安全
保护我们的同事在安全、无事故的环境中工作的权利。
Why Health & Safety Matters
Colleague safety lies at the heart of our business and is our first and foremost priority. Our colleagues deserve a workspace that supports their health and safety. Our efforts work to avoid close calls and prevent injury, particularly potentially serious and life changing safety events.
治理
Our global 环境健康与安全 (EHS) 政策 provides the structure and standards that enable our safety culture. The policy is supplemented by business unit-specific EHS policies for all facilities, further strengthening our commitment to safety. Our Safety Leadership Team, led by our Chief Administrative Officer and comprised of representatives from each region and strategic business unit, manages our global EHS policy and is responsible for driving progress on policies, programs, and initiatives to support a culture of safety at Greif. Our strong safety culture and management begins with and is led by our Executive Leadership Team and is the responsibility of every manager within Greif. To ensure our policies fairly represent the entirety of our workforce, 100 percent of our workforce is represented by safety committees comprised of colleagues and management at all our production facilities. Every two years, we conduct third-party audits at each facility to ensure compliance with all laws, regulations and policies. We use our Compliance Management System (CMS) to track health and safety tasks, including safety observations, incidents and close calls at the facility level. Our 20 global policies apply to all union and non-union colleagues in our workforce. Our 承包商安全政策 makes provisions for the safety of our contractors.
Our global health and safety efforts were more important than ever as we carefully worked to ensure the health and safety of our colleagues during the COVID-19 pandemic. At Greif, we provide critical and essential goods manufacturing and distribution, packaging and protecting goods and materials that serve the greater needs of communities around the world. Given our position, Greif was recognized as an essential business and has operated throughout the pandemic across our global portfolio by adhering to local, state and national regulations in more than 40 countries. To ensure colleague safety in response to COVID-19, we established a global task force and multiple regional task forces, which met at least weekly and more often as needed. Our task forces, and management at all levels, continuously monitor the impact of COVID-19 on our colleagues, communities and business continuity. In addition, we proactively modified and adopted new health and safety measures and practices including:
- 在所有运营中保持严格的程序，例如禁止访客，并为业务关键型物流供应商和分包商制定额外规定
- 加强整个设施和办公室的清洁和卫生规程
- 加强个人防护装备要求，确保顾客产品不会被裸手触摸
- 向同事提供关于如何最好地优化个人卫生、消毒和社交距离实践的最新指导和建议
- 必要时错开生产团队，以进一步加强社交距离要求
- 鼓励非生产部门的同事在家或远程办公，并支持他们完成这一过渡
For up-to-date information about our response to COVID-19 and our ongoing commitments to the health and safety of our colleagues and to serve our customers please refer to the Greif Coronavirus (COVID-19) Customer Update.
Our Serious Injury and Fatality (SIF) global workgroup was formed in 2016 to analyze industry research regarding SIF events and methods of advancing our program. Based on their work, we introduced the Life Changing Injury and Fatality Elimination (LIFE) program in 2017 to better understand and track close calls and potentially life-altering, life-threatening and life-ending safety events. Through LIFE we have raised awareness and implemented programs to address critical safety behaviors at each of our facilities, such as suspended load-related safety, lockout-tagout procedures and enhanced machine guarding. The program led to the introduction of our PIT-Pedestrian Policy, which helps to safeguard our colleagues against the dangers of lift truck operations, the event with the highest risk of a LIFE injury in Greif’s facilities. In 2019, we used our LIFE data to identify global and regional leading indicators and develop safety action plans to address the highest risk injury events. In 2020, we replaced the risk index with an improved LIFE metric and implemented corrective actions tracking for LIFE events. We have also implemented a process to share all medical cases and LIFE events using the SBI format on a one page document across all our Global Industrial Packaging (GIP) business unit.
18.26
Average Safety Training Hours
Each production colleague in our business receives safety training, ensuring our safety culture is understood and practiced every day.
Formal training continues to be critical to our safety initiatives. In 2020, we delivered 18.26 hours of safety training per production colleague, an increase from 17.77 in 2019.
To help our leaders establish a stronger safety performance culture and encourage all colleagues to be accountable and keep themselves and others safe, we began offering virtual safety leadership training to plant managers at GIP North America, EMEA and APAC facilities in 2020. The leadership training provides our safety leaders with the knowledge and resources to reinforce the importance of safety to colleagues, address safety issues and be alert to risks and successfully facilitate meaningful dialogue through our Commitment-Based Safety / Quality (CBS/Q) program. The CBS/Q program highlights the value of daily safety. At the start of each day or shift, teams begin with a 15-minute discussion around safety and quality, encouraging a safety and quality culture within the work teams. The meetings provide a daily opportunity for colleagues to talk openly about any concerns and creates an environment where proactive safety behaviors are valued. They identify potential safety hazards within their job function, articulate and rank their safety performance, and make pledges to take responsibility for their actions. The leadership training and CBS/Q program will be in place across all GIP facilities globally in 2021.
In 2020, we launched TAKE2 to encourage our colleagues to “take two minutes” to think about the process, personal actions, equipment and potential hazards involved when they are performing a task that is not part of their normal workday. Colleagues then complete and sign a TAKE2 analysis. This allows them to stop and ensure they are thinking of not only their own safety, but also the safety of their colleagues. The last step involves a lead person, supervisor or manager, signing the TAKE2 analysis before the colleague is allowed to begin the non-routine task. Through this program, we also place an increased focus on safety risks our colleagues may face at home that are relevant to the workplace, and vice versa.
In 2019, we introduced a Global Safety Scorecard and visual standards to help promote consistent safety metrics globally. The Scorecard standardizes metrics within each business unit to ensure we are evaluating safety similarly across all our operations, but considers business- and facility-specific safety risks that drive global metrics.
To promote a continuous focus on safety, Paper Packaging & Services (PPS) facilities hold weekly safety calls attended by all General Managers, senior leadership and other select colleagues from each facility. During the calls, each facility is responsible for reviewing any incidents that have occurred over the past week and there is rotating responsibility to share at least one best practice for promoting safety with the group. These calls have led to the adoption of innovative safety risk reduction and elimination solutions in every operation. The Mill Group also began a series of learning discussions in 2020 centered on Human Operational Performance, to better understand how factors such as human error can impact safety.
Sites within PPS have placed increased focus on pedestrian and mobile equipment interaction, lockout-tagout, machine guarding, job safety analysis and risk and hazard recognition as part of our continued efforts to embed a safety culture across all Greif facilities. We are also proud to continue some innovative safety practices from Caraustar’s legacy safety programs. For example, Caraustar had established a program across a number of sites that provides our colleagues with access to an athletic trainer to help them prevent and recover from both non-work-related and work-related injuries that may result from the physical demands of the job and at home. This program is currently in use at nearly half our mills and several select PPS facilities. In late 2020, PPS began piloting a virtual Athletic Trainer program for smaller facilities with plans to expand its use over time. The Industrial Products Group adopted an innovative solution that utilizes technology to analyze standard activities to identify ergonomic risks and modify workstation configurations and practices to eliminate conditions that can contribute to injury.
目标与进展
Greif has two Health & Safety goals:
- Reduce Medical Case Rate (MCR) by 10 percent annually to achieve a MCR Zero in the long term.
- 到 2025 财年末，每家工厂都将设立由管理层和工人组成的协作环境健康和安全委员会。
表现
As of 2018, each Greif plant had a safety committee comprised of managers and colleagues. We are proud of the results that have come from our vigilance in health and safety.
Our renewed focus on health and safety resulted in a 20 percent reduction in MCR year over year. We focused our efforts on facilities where we saw increased safety incidents in 2019. We implemented focused safety facility plans and reinforced goals and actions on the largest safety risks, and the risks that led to incidents at each facility. For example, all legacy Caraustar mills and a third of our Industrial Packaging and Recycling sites received a third-party safety audit in 2020. Results of the findings are shared across other sites with common solutions and improvements. Audits will continue across PPS in 2021. Since 2007, we have experienced a 66 percent reduction in MCR, improving from 3.51 to 1.18. Similarly, since 2011, Lost Workday Case Rate (LWCR) has improved from 1.3 to 0.62, a 52 percent reduction.
We remain steadfast in our commitment to safety and reaching the goals we have set for ourselves. We believe our overall safety strategy and culture of safety that we have created in our organization is effective and provides the foundation we need to continue reducing MCR and LWCR in the coming years. We believe our Commitment-Based Safety/Quality, Behavior Based Safety Observation and Take Two programs are critical in strengthening our commitment to our safety culture.
COLLEAGUE HEALTH & SAFETY
**LWCR, or Lost Workday Case Rate, measures the number of recordable injuries resulting in lost workdays per 100 full-time colleagues in a 12-month period.
2019 年的数据仅包括 3 月份以后的 Caraustar 数据，不包括财年前 4 个月的数据。
员工援助计划（EAP）
加拿大和美国的所有 Greif 同事都可以享受员工援助计划 (EAP)。Greif 的 EAP 是一项保密的工作干预计划，为同事及其家人提供信息服务，旨在增强情绪、精神和整体心理健康。该计划提供预防性和主动性干预措施，以便尽早发现、识别和/或解决可能对绩效和幸福感产生不利影响的工作和个人问题。这些问题和问题可能包括但不限于人际关系、健康、创伤、药物滥用、赌博和其他成瘾、财务问题、抑郁症、焦虑症、精神障碍、沟通问题和应对变化。
庆祝长期无事故运营
Greif’s long-term health and safety aspiration is to achieve zero accidents at all our facilities worldwide. While we recognize the challenge of this aspiration, 46 of our Global Industrial Packaging (GIP) facilities have achieved three or more years of accident free operation, including the following sites that have achieved five or more years of accident free operations:
- GIP Vietnam, Vung Tau – 14 years
- GIP Houston – 13 years
- GIP Naperville – 12 years
- GIP Chino – 11 years
- GIP Volgograd, Russia – 10 years
- GIP Delta St. Gabriel – 9 years
- GIP Sadat City, Egypt – 9 years
- GIP Midland – 8 years
- GIP Agarsk, Russia – 8 years
- GIP Sultanbeyli, Turkey – 8 years
- GIP CLCM St. Francis – 7 years
- GIP Hazleton – 7 years
- GIP Houston – Plastics – 7 years
- GIP Mt. Sterling – 7 years
- GIP Winfield – 6 years
- GIP Kazan, Russia – 6 years
- GIP Vologda, Russia – 6 years
- GIP Vreeland, Netherlands – 6 years
- GIP Auburndale – 5 years
- GIP Bradley – 5 years
- GIP Hadimkoy, Turkey – 5 years
- GIP Huizhou, China – 5 years
- GIP Londrina, Brazil – 5 years
- GIP Hedenhusene, Denmark – 5
- GIP Mobeni, South Africa – 5 years
- GIP Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – 5 years
这些成就以及 2023 年的其他零伤害设施，为我们在全球所有设施实现零事故的愿望提供了强有力的典范。
主席安全卓越奖
每家实现 MCR 为零的工厂都将获得董事长安全卓越奖。2023 年，我们在全球范围内有 97 家生产工厂获得了该奖项，并在虚拟颁奖典礼上获得表彰。
