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Our culture is one of commitment to safety, accountability for actions and feedback on performance. We believe that every workplace incident, injury and illness is preventable. Our goal is to ensure personal safety for our employees. Preventing workplace incidents, injuries and illnesses is an integral part of our worldwide business strategy.

As with all aspects of sustainability, we continually strive to improve our workplace safety. That is why we have decided to transition from year-over-year, incremental safety targets to a more aggressive, five-year target accompanied by a sweeping, companywide safety program. The goal of our ambitious 2015 safety targets is to challenge employees across the company to change their way of thinking about safety.

 At Eastman, we assess our personal workplace safety performance by examining:

Safety measurement

2010 Data

2011 Target

2015 Target

Global Injury and Illness rates (OSHA Recordable)
(annual incidents per 100 employees [200,000 work hours] involving treatment beyond first aid in relation to actual work hours)

0.79 

Target rate of
no more than 0.7

Target rate of
no more than 0.35

Global Days Away from Work (DAW)
(annual incidents per 100 employees [200,000 work hours] where work is missed in relation to actual work)

0.11

Target rate of
no more than 0.15

Target rate of
 less than 0.05

Global Process Safety Incidents*

7  

5

N/A (Currently an annual target)

* Eastman applies American Chemistry Council's reporting criteria for process safety incidents globally.
 
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