Safety
Safety & Integrity is one of our leading core values and is woven into how we do our jobs each day. We encourage our workforce to carry this principle of working safely and maintaining personal integrity when working alone or with others, inside and outside our facilities. With every person having ‘stop work authority,’ we aim to prevent accidents before they happen by empowering our employees address potential problems as soon as they’re recognized.
Process Safety Management (PSM)
By encouraging our sites to go beyond regulatory requirements, we drive continuous improvement and support our broader goals of zero harm.
We conduct internal audits on health and safety issues at all locations. In addition, we conduct HSES risk assessments, pre-startup safety reviews, personal safety and pre-job risk assessments, and provide protective equipment to all impacted employees. We also maintain hazard and operability studies, and risk mitigation and compliance plans.
Following the Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) model, we continuously update our risk assessments to reflect normal operations, incident learnings, and investigation findings.
Safety Training
Training is an integral element of our safety management system and is defined in various health and safety-related policies and procedures. We offer targeted training, including regulatory training, to relevant employees and contractors on health and safety risks and best working practices, including chemical safety, general safety, and many personal safety-related subjects.
Our training programs include, but are not limited to:
Working from Heights
Preparing Equipment for Maintenance
Hazardous Materials Transportation
Emergency Response
Respiratory Protection
American Chemistry Council Responsible Care®
Kraton is a proud participant in the American Chemistry Council (ACC) Responsible Care® initiative. Most of Kraton’s sites have certified Responsible Care Management Systems in place. Our manufacturing plants in North America are RC14001 certified.
Product Regulatory
Kraton’s Product Stewardship & Regulatory Affairs (PSRA) team manages health, safety, and environmental aspects of our raw materials and products throughout their life cycle and across the value chain to mitigate risks to customers, stakeholders, and the environment.
PSRA conducted hazard assessments of 100% of our pine chemicals and polymers as part of the Product Safety Codes of ACC Responsible Care. Through this process, we have identified the highest risk chemical families based on human health and environmental risk, and we reviewed these for potential areas of risk mitigation. We reassess Kraton products whenever changes to product, process, or regulations occur and communicate the impact and necessary actions with stakeholders.
100%
Significant product categories were 100% assessed for Health and Safety impact improvement (GRI 416-1)
0
Incidents of non-compliance with regulations and/ or voluntary codes concerning the health and safety impacts of our products.
Kraton received no fines, penalties, or warnings from jurisdictional authorities. (GRI 416-2)
