Health, Safety and Wellbeing
At Smurfit Westrock, providing a safe and healthy working environment is a core value shared by our employees, their families, and the communities where we operate. Health, safety, and wellbeing are integral to our culture, and we foster an environment where colleagues look after themselves and each other. We want to ensure we provide a secure, supportive workplace where everyone goes home safe every day. This commitment extends to contractors, subcontractors, and visitors at all our sites.
Our global Health and Safety Policy
Our structured approach focuses on continually improving safety performance, grounded in loyalty, integrity, and respect. The policy outlines our commitments to:
- Promote a supportive culture focusing on openness, involvement, and dignity in the workplace; we are all responsible for each other’s health, safety and wellbeing.
- Provide constructive feedback on success and setbacks in equal measure; we care for our employees and expect them to care for each other, by speaking up when noticing anything they feel is unsafe or that would harm anyone’s health or wellbeing
- Review workplace incidents so there is consistent reporting, investigation, and, where appropriate, identification of improvement opportunities that strengthen our health and safety management systems and wellbeing to avoid recurrence in incidents.
- Comply with all applicable legal requirements and implement good health, safety and wellbeing practices by effective deployment of our health and safety management systems. •
- Ensure that all line managers foster a work environment where every member of the workforce, including contractors and subcontractors, understand their role in health, safety and wellbeing, and deliver on their individual responsibilities.
- Ensure that all operational managers take responsibility for health and safety implementation, communication, and compliance.
- Ensure that our employees, contractors, and subcontractors are trained to work safely.
- Have processes in place to identify health and safety hazards so that risks are assessed and minimized to prevent injuries and health problems among our employees, contractors, subcontractors, partners and visitors.