Morgan Advanced Materials
Health, safety and wellbeing
We believe that everyone in Morgan has a responsibility to keep themselves and each other safe.
We rely on the expertise and diligence of our operational and safety team to uphold safety standards on our sites, ensuring all incidents are investigated so we can learn from them, and ensure appropriate controls are in place to prevent reoccurrence. We have biweekly reviews in place to review all severe incidents with the Group CEO.
Our Group Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) policy, available in local languages, is underpinned by a Company EHS framework, which provides guidance to our sites on how to put in place local EHS management processes. We also monitor compliance through EHS audits. We continue to maintain our thinkSAFE safety leadership programme, including our Visible Safety Leadership (VSL) and Don’t Walk By (DWB) leading safety behavioural programmes, and embed our ‘TAKE 5’ programme to help employees to carry out simple safety checks to identify hazards and controls before starting any activity.
Protecting our people from the risks associated with exposure to hazardous materials is a fundamental part of our EHS management programme. This includes assessment and monitoring of controls as well as the provision of associated training. Every site has its own industrial monitoring plans to identify potential exposure against regulatory limits, and to set out its control measures to either reduce or remove exposure.
Progress in 2024
We successfully rolled our quarterly safety topics aligned with the key EHS challenges we are seeing in the business, whilst continuing to reinforce the ‘TAKE 5’ message with our teams. Our final quarterly topic for 2024 was on mental health and wellbeing.
Our people have access to an employee assistance programme in the UK and US, and we have trained mental health first-aiders or ‘drop in’ wellbeing clinics at other sites. Our sites also run local programmes to improve wellbeing, for example:
- Our New Bedford site invited a selection of furry friends from Peaceful Paws LLC, to help raise awareness of mental health issues and encourage people to seek help if needed.
- At our Lillebonne site the team organised a health awareness day, getting together to talk about health and specifically the prevention of breast and prostate cancer. The day gave our people the chance to speak to a health professional about prevention initiatives and support. Each participant left the day with a health box containing tests and information to help them monitor their health on a daily basis.
Our safety plans for 2025 and beyond
In 2025, we will continue to embed our ‘TAKE 5’ programme and maintain our focus on our ergonomics programme.
We will refresh our process safety, working with an external partner to reassess our process hazards and controls in relation to our high-risk processes. We will also be reviewing the associated maintenance programmes and taking the opportunity to roll out a process safety training programme to upskill local site teams around process safety risk management. Good process safety risk management ensures our sites and equipment are in good working order which helps reduce the risk of failures that could cause significant injury or harm to the environment.
We will also launch a number of EHS Standards and guidance in the business, which will align with our EHS Framework, to provide enhanced guidance to the sites on how to manage their EHS risks and controls.