(16b) Manufacturing Excellence Through a Journey to Live Incident-Free

Safety Excellence is an essential element to achieving manufacturing excellence. This paper describes proven methods of crafting a journey towards achieving safety excellence in the chemical industry. The elements described in this paper helped Chemtura to steer the direction and guide the Corporation on a journey towards safety excellence. The leadership vision, associated techniques for investigating incidents, communication of investigation results, along with the development of tracking tools are described herein. Critical success factors and pitfalls are also illustrated. This paper presents a systematic approach to communicate the vision, collect and assess data, and share risk awareness information across an organization that can lead to an incident-free workplace.