We take our responsibility for our workforce, and for the environment they live and work in, very seriously. Our goal is to achieve Zero Loss Time Injury (LTI) on all our manufacturing facilities. This is a challenging goal for all of us but a number of our factories have demonstrated that this is possible. For example our factories in St. Petersburg, Russia and Turkey have reached 5 million man-hours without LTI. PMI factories in Romania, Portugal, Philippines, and Kazakhstan achieved 3 million man-hours without LTI; while Germany, Holland, Serbia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Lithuania, Ukraine, and Krasnodar, Russia factories attained 1 million man-hours without LTI.

For several years we've been tracking the safety performance of our factories around the world. We've found, both from those statistics and from discussions with managers and staff, that many accidents are caused by habit, unsafe behaviour and distraction. Clearly, keeping to strict environmental health and safety standards is only the start. Responsible workplace behaviour matters just as much. That's why we've developed programmes to tackle the behavioural causes of accidents. They include such measures as:

ongoing job safety and behavioural analyses;

employee training courses;

routine and planned inspection conducted by management team and supervisors; and

cultural assessments.