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World-Leading Operations Performance

Dow maintains world-leading operations performance in natural resource efficiency, environment, health and safety.

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Measuring our progress

Dow’s commitment to safety and world-leading operations performance is key to our company’s success, our history and our “license to operate” in communities around the world. We measure our annual progress through four indices: Unplanned Events, Environmental Stewardship, Total Worker Health and Transportation Stewardship.

Our metrics

  • Dow will strive to eliminate fatalities, significantly reduce severe injury and illness incidents and maintain the total recordable injury and illness rate at industry-leading levels.
  • Dow will strive to eliminate all process safety events that impact our people, our communities and the environment.
  • Dow will strive to eliminate all preventable Motor Vehicle Accident (MVA) fatalities.
  • Dow will have a Total Worker Health® implementation that comprehensively controls workplace health risks, protects workers and improves the health of Dow people (Healthy Culture, Healthy Workplace, Healthy People).
  • Dow will demonstrate a 50% improvement in a Transportation Stewardship Index through progress in incident-free performance, leading-edge programs to influence logistics and raw material suppliers and risk reduction across the value chain.
  • Dow will strive to eliminate severe transportation incidents that impact people, property and the environment in the communities through which our products, raw materials and intermediates flow.
  • Dow will improve raw material efficiency utilization index by 10 percent relative to the 2015 baseline.
  • Dow is committed to efficient operations that drive environmental benefits for our communities and the world.
    • Dow will reduce the freshwater intake intensity at key water-stressed sites by 20 percent.
    • Dow will reduce its waste intensity footprint by 20 percent.
    • Dow will grow, but offset emissions of Priority Compounds, Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) and nitrogen oxides (NOx).
  • Dow will obtain 750 MW of its power demand from renewable sources by 2025.

Recent highlights

  • In October of 2022, Dow achieved 3 years without a severe Motor Vehicle Accident.
  • Dow achieved a 50-year best performance for fatality-free operations in 2022:
    • December 2, 2022 – with 977 days fatality-free
    • March 30, 2023 – with 3 years fatality-free
  • As of 2022, more than 175 of our highest priority ergonomic, noise and chemical exposure risks have been eliminated or reduced since 2015 keeping us on track to reach our 100% target for the Total Work Health goal by 2025.
  • Since 2022, contracts are in place for 1037 MW of renewable power – already surpassing our 2025 goal for sourcing renewable power.
  • Dow is on-track to meet its Transportation Safety Index improvement target. This performance is supported by a combination of effective risk management programs and projects intended to reduce overall transportation risk profile.