Safety

A safe working environment in our plants, laboratories and administrative offices is essential to our success not only as a chemical and materials company, but as an enterprise that is dependant upon thousands of people around the world.

People are Honeywell Specialty Materials' most important asset, and their safety is not just a management goal or an individual task safety must be a value embraced by all employees. We are adamant that everyone who is part of Honeywell Specialty Materials take safety to be their responsibility and embed it into their daily life.

The success of Honeywell Specialty Materials' safety performance and advancement of the safety culture is dependant on our employees' performance. To achieve these goals, we constantly review and evaluate our safety practices and standards and follow these standards as we perform our daily activities. We also implement new safety management systems and audit processes to help find new ways to make our facilities safer.

So far in 2005, Honeywell Specialty Materials achieved several honors and milestones for safety performance, including:

	The Claymont, Delaware, United States, facility becoming RC14001 certified by the American Chemistry Council (ACC), which incorporates requirements for ISO 14001 certification and broadens them to include Health, Safety and Environment (HS&E) and security.
	The U.S. Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) recommending the Spokane, Washington (U.S.) for Star certification in its Volunteer Protection Program (VPP). The facility also achieved 2 million hours without a lost work-time incident.
	The Chesterfield, Virginia (U.S.), plant logging 3.5 million hours without a lost work day.
	The Columbia and Anderson, South Carolina, sites were recognized for outstanding safety performance by the South Carolina Manufacturers Alliance.
	The Seelze, Germany, facility surpassing one million hours without either a lost work day.

Simply put, nothing is more important to us than safety.

It is an ongoing commitment, and one to which we are steadfastly dedicated.