2025 key performance highlights:
Total employee and contractor accidents
6% decrease (YoY)
Loss of Containment (LOC) events
9% decrease in more-than-minor LOC events (YoY)
UK CIA health metrics
82% of sites achieved ‘Best Practice’
18% attained ‘Advanced’ ratings in specific areas
Total quantity lost
96% decrease (YoY)
Total employee accident rate
9% decrease (YoY) per 100,000 hours
60-second checks
161,981 completed
Journey To Zero Harm
12,570 safety interactions completed
Health and safety training
Over 67,000 hours completed
Our SHE Standards and Policy
We set high standards for process and occupational safety, which is managed by our network of Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) professionals, who are responsible for maintaining high standards and implementing our SHE Policy.
SHE Objectives
We follow three core objectives:
• No one gets hurt
• We do not negatively impact our neighbours
• We aim to minimize our impact on the environment
SHE Leadership
Our RESPECT Committee oversees our global SHE policies, sets objectives, and monitors ongoing performance. The committee, led by our CEO, Patrick S. Williams, includes members of the Senior Leadership team and reports directly to our Board of Directors.
2025 Safety Performance
| Safety KPI | 2025 target | 2025 metric | 2024 metric |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of employee fatalities | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Number of contractor fatalities | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Number of major employee accident injuries | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Number of major contractor accident injuries | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Number of employee lost time accidents (absent >3 days) | – | 9 | 15 |
| Number of contractor lost time accidents (absent >3 days) | – | 0 | 2 |
| Innospec employee reportable lost time accident rate per 100,000 worked | >0.06 | 0.18 | 0.32 |
| DART (cases of days away from work/restriction/transfer) rate | – | 1.09 | 0.92 |
| CDAW (cases of days away from work) rate | – | 0.77 | 0.756 |
| TRC (total recordable incidents) rate | – | 1.34 | 1.05 |
| Near Miss Frequency rate | – | 545.2 | 572.6 |
External Recognition
Cigna Healthy Workforce Designation
Our US-based sites maintain a Gold Level Award from the Cigna Healthy Workforce Designation™. This recognizes that senior leadership offers extensive support for employee well-being programs through organizational commitment. This includes programs and resources that support various dimensions of well-being in addition to health equity considerations that creates a supportive culture, and safe, healthy workspace.
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA)
Our Ellesmere Port, UK site received its eighth Order of Distinction Award from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) for their excellent safety performance in 2024. The award acknowledges 23 consecutive years of achieving RoSPA Gold.
Internal Recognition
We celebrate strong safety performance through our corporate safety awards and certificate programs, recognizing sites and teams that achieve significant milestones in accident prevention.
We recognize our manufacturing sites and associated operations that complete a calendar year or more without an Innospec Reportable Lost Time Accident (IRLTA).
2025 corporate safety awards
Over five years without an IRLTA
- Pleasanton, TX, US
Over three years without an IRLTA
- St Mihiel, France
One year without an IRLTA
- Barcelona, Spain
- Castiglione, Italy
- Ellesmere Port, UK
- High Point, NC, US
- Leuna, German,
- Vernon, France
2025 corporate safety certificates
Gold certificate (1 million employee hours worked without an IRLTA):
- Ellesmere Port, UK
Silver certificate (1/2 million employee hours worked without an IRLTA):
- Salisbury, NC, US
Bronze certificate (1/4 million employee hours worked without an IRLTA):
- Chatsworth, CA, US
- Leuna, Germany
- High Point, NC, US
Explore more about health, safety & well-being at Innospec
Process Safety
We have worked diligently to develop and implement a robust process safety management system that controls our process hazards and minimizes the risk of process safety incidents.
Learn MoreOccupational Safety
We focus on understanding how the behaviour of individuals contributes to safety culture. Integrating years of experience, investigations and advice from external safety experts, enables us to have everything in place to provide the safest possible working environment.
Learn MoreJourney To Zero Harm
Our company-wide Journey To Zero Harm (JTZH) program is our key strategic tool to help reduce accident numbers by encouraging everyone to take responsibility for carrying out a personal safety risk assessment before starting an activity.
Learn MoreHealth and Well-being
Looking after the well-being of our employees is key to the success of our business. By providing ongoing support we can ensure we make the most of a person’s experience, dedication and creative skills at work.
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