Safety always comes first
Comprehensive safety management minimizes risks.
As an international specialty chemicals group, LANXESS considers safety a top priority. The company’s success depends fundamentally on its plants running smoothly, cost-effectively and in full compliance with legal requirements. All business units and employees play their part in identifying risks early on and eliminating potential hazards for people and the environment. They are supported in this task by the group-wide integrated HSEQ management system. All LANXESS sites operate to extremely high health & safety and environmental standards.
Strict checks and focused education
The diversity of LANXESS’s product portfolio necessitates the use of many chemical and technical processes. Uniformly high standards for planning, constructing and operating facilities are applied to ensure the maximum possible process and plant safety. A comprehensive safety management system (SMS) sets out regulations governing all safety-relevant processes at production plants. Regular checks and intensive staff education and training programs ensure that the SMS is implemented consistently and help to prevent accidents.
Careful auditing prior to acquisitions
Safety is also of paramount importance in acquisition projects. A technical due diligence audit designed to identify potential risks is always conducted alongside the standard economic review during the preliminary stages. LANXESS uses comprehensive gap analyses to determine how best to resolve any safety shortcomings and implement the company’s demanding HSEQ standards in good time.
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Strict checks and focused education
The diversity of LANXESS’s product portfolio necessitates the use of many chemical and technical processes. Uniformly high standards for planning, constructing and operating facilities are applied to ensure the maximum possible process and plant safety. A comprehensive safety management system (SMS) sets out regulations governing all safety-relevant processes at production plants. Regular checks and intensive staff education and training programs ensure that the SMS is implemented consistently and help to prevent accidents.
Careful auditing prior to acquisitions
Safety is also of paramount importance in acquisition projects. A technical due diligence audit designed to identify potential risks is always conducted alongside the standard economic review during the preliminary stages. LANXESS uses comprehensive gap analyses to determine how best to resolve any safety shortcomings and implement the company’s demanding HSEQ standards in good time.
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Maximum Protection for employees. Strict regulations for health protection and occupational safety.
Handling chemical substances and working with technical facilities always involve a degree of risk. To give our employees the best possible protection from accidents, LANXESS has introduced strict group-wide directives on health protection and occupational safety. These directives focus primarily on identifying risks in advance and implementing measures designed to prevent accidents and rapidly detect and respond to incidents.
If, despite all safety precautions, an incident does occur, it is recorded in the global electronic Incident Reporting System (IRS). The system documents the entire incident – from the initial notification and response to the definition of deadlines for implementation. As a result, crisis management always has an overview of accidents, environmental incidents and downtimes in production. The lost time injury frequency rate (LTIFR), known as MAQ (injuries for every million hours worked) in Germany, is the key indicator used to assess occupational safety. The LTIFR in 2013 was 3.2, which represents a clear improvement on the previous year
Handling chemical substances and working with technical facilities always involve a degree of risk. To give our employees the best possible protection from accidents, LANXESS has introduced strict group-wide directives on health protection and occupational safety. These directives focus primarily on identifying risks in advance and implementing measures designed to prevent accidents and rapidly detect and respond to incidents.
If, despite all safety precautions, an incident does occur, it is recorded in the global electronic Incident Reporting System (IRS). The system documents the entire incident – from the initial notification and response to the definition of deadlines for implementation. As a result, crisis management always has an overview of accidents, environmental incidents and downtimes in production. The lost time injury frequency rate (LTIFR), known as MAQ (injuries for every million hours worked) in Germany, is the key indicator used to assess occupational safety. The LTIFR in 2013 was 3.2, which represents a clear improvement on the previous year
High standards for all production sites.
LANXESS operates over 50 production sites in more than 20 countries worldwide. The diversity of the company’s product portfolio demands a whole range of chemical and technical processes. That is why a clear, group-wide safety concept is especially important. The application of uniform standards for planning, building and operating plants helps to systematically identify risks and potential hazards and safely eliminate them by implementing appropriate countermeasures. This approach enables LANXESS to put in place the conditions needed to ensure processes at all sites worldwide are safe.
A comprehensive safety management system sets out exactly how employees should approach safety-relevant processes at production plants. Staff training and regular reviews ensure that these regulations are systematically implemented. During compliance checks, experts conduct spot checks to assess whether all necessary measures are being taken to ensure the safe operation of facilities.
LANXESS operates over 50 production sites in more than 20 countries worldwide. The diversity of the company’s product portfolio demands a whole range of chemical and technical processes. That is why a clear, group-wide safety concept is especially important. The application of uniform standards for planning, building and operating plants helps to systematically identify risks and potential hazards and safely eliminate them by implementing appropriate countermeasures. This approach enables LANXESS to put in place the conditions needed to ensure processes at all sites worldwide are safe.
A comprehensive safety management system sets out exactly how employees should approach safety-relevant processes at production plants. Staff training and regular reviews ensure that these regulations are systematically implemented. During compliance checks, experts conduct spot checks to assess whether all necessary measures are being taken to ensure the safe operation of facilities.
Safe handling of chemicals.
As a responsible chemicals company, LANXESS works tirelessly to ensure that hazardous goods are always handled correctly – and that includes the safe transportation of products. An efficient hazardous goods management system helps to prevent potential health risks and pollution worldwide.
LANXESS Global Dangerous Goods Management coordinates the implementation of international, regional and local hazardous goods transport regulations. Its tasks include classifying marketable products, raw materials, samples and waste according to the applicable regulations. Appropriate packaging, modes of transport and routes can then be selected based on these classifications.
Limiting potential hazards
Besides the actual transport logistics, the Transport Safety unit at LANXESS is also responsible for upstream and downstream processes. These include loading and unloading, filling and emptying, handling operations and load securing for hazardous and non-hazardous goods. Potential hazards in the process chain are systematically identified and minimized through appropriate precautions.
As a responsible chemicals company, LANXESS works tirelessly to ensure that hazardous goods are always handled correctly – and that includes the safe transportation of products. An efficient hazardous goods management system helps to prevent potential health risks and pollution worldwide.
LANXESS Global Dangerous Goods Management coordinates the implementation of international, regional and local hazardous goods transport regulations. Its tasks include classifying marketable products, raw materials, samples and waste according to the applicable regulations. Appropriate packaging, modes of transport and routes can then be selected based on these classifications.
Limiting potential hazards
Besides the actual transport logistics, the Transport Safety unit at LANXESS is also responsible for upstream and downstream processes. These include loading and unloading, filling and emptying, handling operations and load securing for hazardous and non-hazardous goods. Potential hazards in the process chain are systematically identified and minimized through appropriate precautions.
High safety standards are a prerequisite at LANXESS production sites
The safety of employees, visitors and neighbors is the top priority at LANXESS production sites. That is why health protection, occupational safety and the safety of plants are all subject to stringent standards. LANXESS goes to great lengths to ensure that potential risks are minimized from the outset and that hazards are averted. Employees are given intensive training on how to handle hazardous substances and operate plants safely. Moreover, LANXESS employs dedicated professional safety experts who have cutting-edge technology at their fingertips. It is their job to regularly check safety standards at sites, devise alarm and emergency response plans and carry out drills. They are tasked with identifying potential weaknesses early on and preventing health risks and pollution in the event that an unavoidable incident such as a fire or product leak should occur.
Targeted education for good neighborly relations
At the German sites in Leverkusen, Dormagen and Krefeld-Uerdingen, LANXESS works with its service partner CURRENTA on safety issues. With many years of experience and advanced technologies, the company plays a key role in protecting people and facilities. CURRENTA also focuses on education, for example by distributing safety leaflets to private households located near the sites. These leaflets include information on the high safety standards in place at the plants and also provide important tips about what to do should an incident occur. This reinforces trust in the chemicals industry and helps to prevent hazards.
The safety of employees, visitors and neighbors is the top priority at LANXESS production sites. That is why health protection, occupational safety and the safety of plants are all subject to stringent standards. LANXESS goes to great lengths to ensure that potential risks are minimized from the outset and that hazards are averted. Employees are given intensive training on how to handle hazardous substances and operate plants safely. Moreover, LANXESS employs dedicated professional safety experts who have cutting-edge technology at their fingertips. It is their job to regularly check safety standards at sites, devise alarm and emergency response plans and carry out drills. They are tasked with identifying potential weaknesses early on and preventing health risks and pollution in the event that an unavoidable incident such as a fire or product leak should occur.
Targeted education for good neighborly relations
At the German sites in Leverkusen, Dormagen and Krefeld-Uerdingen, LANXESS works with its service partner CURRENTA on safety issues. With many years of experience and advanced technologies, the company plays a key role in protecting people and facilities. CURRENTA also focuses on education, for example by distributing safety leaflets to private households located near the sites. These leaflets include information on the high safety standards in place at the plants and also provide important tips about what to do should an incident occur. This reinforces trust in the chemicals industry and helps to prevent hazards.