Health & Safety
ICL is pursuing top-tier safety performance as a global organization and by all its sites and BU’s, in comparison to respective peer industries. To achieve this, ICL continually strives to improve the safety culture and behavior of its workforce, by taking proactive action, managing and reducing risks.
Industrial production in general, and specifically in the chemicals industry, requires taking special precautionary measures to maintain a safe and healthy work environment. Some of our products, raw materials and production processes represent a high risk to anyone who deviates from required professional safety standards or from the mandatory means of safety.
Ensuring that our operations, products and distribution systems are safe and secure for employees and our site contractors as well as guests, distributors, suppliers and the communities in which our facilities are located, is part of our ‘Environment, Safety, Health and Security’ policy.
During the current global COVID-19 outbreak, ICL Management is closely following the situation and has established a designated task force which is in continuous direct contact with our teams across the globe, making sure all required safety measures are in place. Action taken included the provision of all required protective equipment (such as face masks and sanitizers) to all global locations, postponing business flights and communicating precaution instructions to all our employees.
ICL requires and provides the use of safety equipment, for all production employees in general and customized for specific roles and work environments.
ICL has adopted occupational health and safety management systems beyond regulatory requirements in 93% of its production sites. These safety management systems are either OHSAS 18001/RC14001 certified or to equivalent management systems. The certified sites include approximately 98% of our production sites workforce, and 85% of our total global workforce (based on data used in indicator 102-8). Sites that do not have industrial production processes, such as office buildings, do not have safety management systems beyond what is required by law. That includes approximately 14% of our employees.
Despite ICL’s continued efforts to reduce work accidents at its sites, in September 2019 a fatal accident occurred involving a contractor worker at ICL China Shanghai Tari (STI). The worker was electrocuted during repair work for a solar-power water heater. The accident was investigated by both the company and the authorities. Results indicated that electricity systems’ management and maintenance rules weren’t followed and aligned with ICL’s operating rules and procedures, which allowed for human error and override of existing protection measures. In immediate response to this event, all electricity system malfunctions were repaired and enhanced electricity isolation systems were installed.
For violation of the local safe production law, the site was fined by 386 K RMB (=~55K USD). The site was also required by law (and by the company’s management, in accordance to with its safety standards) to undertake further corrective actions, including enhanced safety training of relevant personnel (including emphasis on safe maintenance procedures); taking both proactive measures and preparing emergency reaction measures for safe production; and enhanced hazard recognition and prevention practices. The site has completed all these required actions.
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