Safety is a precondition for all we do at Celanese. We take seriously our responsibility to protect ourselves, one another, our worldwide communities, equipment and facilities. Since Celanese became a U.S.-based publicly traded company in 2005, leadership has purposefully transitioned the company's safety approach from site-developed, sitespecific processes, to a global best practice-driven approach with corporate-level guidelines. We've taken processes that work well at sites, documented them as best practices, and adopted them worldwide.

In Celanese today, the expectation for safety starts with strong commitment from leadership, and it's reinforced by engaged, proactive employees committed to helping all workers return home in the same condition they arrived.

Keeping employees safe
In 2007, Celanese formalized the “Employee Engagement Process” that was adopted as part of our global Integrated Management System (IMS). IMS processes promote consistency, common expectations and employee engagement in occupational processes. It applies to all employees in Celanese businesses across the globe.

Process Safety - Safe Facilities & Safe Communities
Process safety is the proactive control of risk to human life associated with releases of hazardous chemicals and energy such as fires, explosions and toxins. Our expectation is zero accidents and zero defects. In 2007, Celanese expanded the scope of our facilities' process safety management system elements by 40 percent, and also required all manufacturing sites to establish a Responsibility and Accountability plan encompassing each of the system's 21 elements. The result is stronger, more thorough methods which ensure the safety of our plants, equipment and the communities in which we operate.

Global training standards are key in advancing process safety. More than 300 employees are trained annually in process safety techniques such as process hazard and consequence analysis through internal programs. We continually monitor our safety, environmental and process safety compliance to identify opportunities for improvement through regular internal audits by Celanese technical experts, third-party experts and our EHS team.

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