Safety: The Cornerstone of AmSty Culture
Safety is a core value that guides every decision we make at AmSty.
Each day, we strive for zero injuries and incidents while making products that make people's lives better. Our guiding principle is simple: we must work safely, or we do not work at all.
Strong safety performance ensures consistency, reliability and confidence in everything we produce. Employees and contractors are held to a high standard to make safe choices to prevent injury, illness and process safety events. Every AmSty employee and contractor is empowered with stop-work authority to avoid unsafe acts and conditions.
In addition to stringent protocols for our employees, to ensure each of our contractors and vendors share our commitment to health and safety, we've implemented an information management system to evaluate and monitor safety, performance and compliance. We train and empower cross-functional teams of experts to review any operating change in advance to identify potential hazards and to establish safe work procedures and audit protocols.
AmSty is certified by the American Chemistry Council (ACC) as a Responsible Care® company, which recognizes industry leaders dedicated to ensuring the business of chemistry is safe, secure and sustainable. Responsible Care® companies have a worker safety rating that's nearly five times better than the U.S. manufacturing sector and almost three times better than those in chemical manufacturing overall. Our safety record – as measured by the Recordable Incident Rate (RIR) – is in the top quartile of chemical companies in the ACC.
This commitment to protecting the safety of our employees and contractors is evident across individual AmSty facilities, where teams have achieved impressive safety milestones. For instance, our Marietta, Ohio, facility recently reached 11 years without a recordable safety incident. In addition, our facility in Allyn's Point, Connecticut, has reached nine years; and facilities in Cartagena, Colombia, Hanging Rock, Ohio, and Torrance, California, have each achieved eight-year safety milestones.
The average plastics manufacturing facility in the U.S experiences at least one OSHA-recordable incident each year. The achievements of the teams throughout our company are a testament to the discipline, teamwork and genuine care for one another and an example of what can be achieved when safety is fully embraced.
At AmSty, our commitment to health and safety extends across every facility, every team member and every decision. This unwavering focus helps ensure stable operations, dependable supply and continued trust from our employees and partners.
