HEALTH & SAFETY INTEGRATING SAFETY INTO ALL WE DO DOW | 2021 ESG REPORT | 39 A Focus on Continuous Improvement in Safety Promoting worker and environmental safety is core to our business and sustainability strategy, and we continually strive to make improvements. The following are examples of how Team Dow was involved in our efforts in 2021. WHAT’S THE WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN? To continue to improve on our cultural journey in personal safety during 2021, EHS&S hosted four interactive and innovative global sessions titled “What’s the Worst That Could Happen?” The objective of these sessions was to share best practices among all functions, businesses and regions regarding critical safety topics, with a focus on fall prevention, heavy equipment, process safety and containment, and contractor safety. Several employees shared their personal workplace incident stories, which reminded us that injuries are not just a metric but can also be a life-altering experience for those impacted. ELIMINATING ELEVATED WORK Audit and near-miss data from 2016-2020 identified an opportunity to eliminate or reduce fall risks. As a result, we: • Formed a Routine Elevated Work Solutions project team that created a toolkit to help identify fall risks at a site and evaluate ways to make a task safer through engineering controls. One of the new techniques to eliminate elevated work included the use of drones for inspections. • Conducted a Fall Prevention Blitz to help prevent fall-related incidents, with a “lifeguard” approach – employees and contractors looking out for one another to ensure safety and immediately address potentially hazardous behaviors. Health & Safety Spotlight In 2020, we had five severe injuries among contractors in North America. In 2021, we recorded zero – globally. This is due to the widespread impact of the North America Contractor Safety Task Force, whose strategy was then successfully leveraged across multiple regions. Learn more on p. 40.