Safety Excellence

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Embracing a Holistic View of Safety

A SAFETY OBSESSION IS DEEPLY ROOTED IN RESPONSIBLE CHEMISTRY

Responsible chemistry begins with our focus on the safety and health of our people, along with people throughout our company’s value chain. We live our Safety Obsession value every day by empowering our people to recognize and control risk, by learning from our experiences, and focusing on the excellent execution of our Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) systems to continually improve our performance. We demonstrate our Safety Obsession value through proactive risk management, a culture of learning, execution of our management systems, and industry-leading performance. In doing so, we align our Safety Obsession value with our Holistic Safety approach.

Our 2023 Actions

Implemented a new second-party audit process
Developed a library of site Highly Toxic Materials (HTMs) treatment protocols and medications for the nursing staff to review and utilize, as necessary. This information will assist new nurses in learning about Chemours HTMs
Developed incident analysis tools and delivered training on the use of them for investigation
Expanded our Emergency Response Program by adding forward observers in strategic locations to better support our Emergency Response capabilities in southern U.S. and Latin America
Enhanced Emergency Preparedness module in ETQ Reliance, an internal tracking system, for improved site drill tracking capabilities
Implemented a new digital solution to manage the contractor EHS prequalification process at U.S. sites for improved visibility and a streamlined process
Updated and reissued Contractor Safety Handbook

2030 CRC Goals Snapshot

Striving for Zero Safety Incidents

We celebrate achieving consistent, quantifiable, and positive health and safety outcomes and are equally relentless in our prevention of harm by aligning our Safety Obsession value with holistic safety. We invest in people, facilities, and processes to protect the physical safety of our employees and we are equally committed to holistic safety to ensure that they feel safe in any Chemours setting. We take purposeful, decisive actions to support the total well-being of our workforce to allow every employee to perform their best. In line with our focus on holistic safety, we offer a broad range of benefits and well-being programs that we believe are critical to the health and safety of our employees.

In 2023, Chemours employees worked over 13 million hours with 20 recordable injuries, and our contractors worked almost 7.5 million hours with 14 recordable injuries. Our Safety Obsession culture requires and encourages employees to seek out training opportunities to increase safety literacy and capability at our sites. In 2023, our global employees completed approximately 49,248 hours of classroom and computer-based training.

CASE STUDIES

Taking a More Human-Centric Approach

Human Performance is about understanding how and why people make mistakes and what Chemours can do to prevent, mitigate, and reduce the likelihood of human error. Procedural Excellence is about understanding how written guidance influences human performance and success. Based on that understanding, Chemours has developed a strategy to establish a more human-centric model to manage process risk, which we have built into our corporate process safety standard. Introducing human performance principles has created a new mindset for how we manage and respond to human error. We continue to develop advanced analytics, visualizations, and automated processes to seek improvement opportunities in enterprise-wide engineering and management systems.

Distributing Products Safely

Chemours has manufacturing operations in eight countries and transports products to more than 2,700 customers in 110 countries. As our transportation and distribution activities span many miles, we find it imperative to responsibly manage, monitor, and improve safety in the transportation of raw materials to our production facilities and the shipment of our products to customers. In 2023, Chemours enhanced our distribution safety performance by delivering new railcar training to better equip operators on basic railcar components and inspection, developing new consequence criteria for our transportation risk assessments, and updating our internal distribution audit protocol.

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Managing Contractor Safety

In 2023 as part of continuous improvement, Chemours implemented a new digital solution to manage safety prequalification at our U.S. sites, leading to improved visibility, streamlined verification of requirements, and improved data analysis that will enable future capabilities in each phase of the contractor safety management process. This process further establishes clear accountabilities and communication of safety expectations with our contract partners to prevent harm to anyone working at our sites. We also communicate our safety expectations to contractors through our Supplier Code of Conduct and by including language in our contractual agreements requiring compliance with local laws and EHS requirements.

Partnering for Progress

Staying on the Leading Edge of Safety

The safety of our people and communities is far too important to limit our learning to our company. We partner with peers and industry organizations so that our safety knowledge and perspective is as broad as possible and to keep abreast of leading-edge thinking about safety in chemical manufacturing. Among the memberships in which we participate are:

The American Chemistry Council where we Collaborate with other member and partner companies to improve safety throughout the supply chain, address climate change issues and impacts, and help develop products and technology that will benefit society.
Center for Chemical Process Safety Learn and share best process safety management practices to prevent incidents.
Community for Human and Organizational Learning Share information, concepts, and best practices on human performance improvement, organizational effectiveness, and error reduction tools and techniques.