Our health and safety goal is simple – provide a safe work environment for all of our people and eliminate all incidents associated with Newell Rubbermaid activities, products and services. We will accomplish this through leadership commitment, following a well-defined, proactive safety process, acting globally and thinking locally, promoting involvement, and recognizing and building on our successes. Safety must be present in every aspect of our product life cycle from the suppliers with whom we partner, to the employees who build and distribute our products, to our customers that sell our products, and finally to the consumer who uses our products.
To track the results of our efforts we will use the Global Recordable Incident Rate as our lagging metric and Safety Excellence and Leadership (SEAL) score as our leading indicator. Our historical performance and goals are as follows:
• Reduce Global Recordable Incident Rate to < 1.0
Background: Global Recordable Incident Rate measures the total recordable incidents for every 100 employees working 200,000 hours a year. The base for recording follows the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) total recordable incident reporting criteria.
• Improve the Global SEAL Score to > 80 percent
Background: SEAL is an incident prevention roadmap that establishes a consistent set of safety expectations for all of our global locations. The assessment is a diagnostic tool. The SEAL score is the percentage of points achieved versus points possible on the assessment.