Neo Performance Materials promotes occupational health and safety management systems at all its facilities. Eighty nine percent of Neo’s manufacturing personnel operate in a plant that carries an external ISO 45001 – Occupational Health and Safety Management System certification. This management method has been promoted by Neo management for more than a decade to drive strong performance and demonstrate our commitment by using an internationally recognized standard. Those facilities that are not yet certified have many, if not all, the ISO-45001 elements in place.

These certifications require risk assessments, review of required regulations, annual goals and objectives as well as management review meetings. At the corporate level, a similar system is in place in which an aggressive list of HESS improvement goals and objectives are developed in management review meetings. Site Managers, HESS Managers, the Executive Team, and the Board’s HESS Committee all participate in the corporategoal setting process. The Executive Team and the Board track progress quarterly.

This process includes a robust HES audit system that uses site-specific documents (System Status Reports). These documents attempt to identify key regulatory requirements, applicable corporate standards, and site-specific risk reduction requirements and consolidate them into one document. These reports were developed by Corporate Health and Safety, in conjunction with Neo professionals that work in that region, and external HES consultants. While these documents are the basis for Neo corporate audits, the intent is to have a useful document from which sites can monitor their systems internally. The document is not meant to be a periodic checkup, but a continuous review of our prevention systems.