2021 Owens Corning Sustainability Report | Expanding Our Social Handprint | Living Safely | 260 Contractor Management Since contractors who work with Owens Corning are held to the same standards as the company’s employees, they must attend and provide appropriate safety training for their employees. We conduct behavior-based observations, walkthrough inspections, and audits to ensure that contractors maintain the health and safety of our workplace. We also have consistent processes for prequalifying and measuring contractor performance associated with large-scale projects within our facilities, and for contractors we directly manage. Our Contractor Management Standard establishes the minimum requirements to prequalify, select, orient, monitor, and evaluate contractors who perform higher risk work at Owens Corning sites globally. After deploying the Contractor Management Standard in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada in 2019, we began to implement software to support the program in Europe in 2021. To enhance and streamline the process of verifying that contractors are compliant with Owens Corning standards, we worked with ISN, a global leader in supplier and contractor management. ISNetworld, ISN’s system, facilitated establishing and managing contractor qualification requirements. Our ISN process was detailed earlier in this chapter on page 248. Through the program, over 27,037 individual safety programs have been reviewed, and in 2021, 2,827 insurance certificates were reviewed. This work helps us understand gaps and standardize how we manage risk when working with our contractors. It ensures that all contractors performing work with moderate or high SIF potential at Owens Corning sites around the world have been verified to our standards through an external party. Cellphone Policy Owens Corning is concerned with the safety of its employees, regardless of where they work or which activity they perform. The ubiquity of cell phones continues to present a safety issue, and countless studies have shown the extent to which cell phone users are distracted. Whether our employees are busy in production work areas, taking the stairs in our facilities, or walking or driving in parking lots, we have very specific rules about the use of cell phones. We instituted a ban on the use of cell phones in our sites’ parking lots, and when driving as part of company business, as far back as 2012. At most sites, signs about cell phone use are posted at strategic locations so that employees are reminded that these are safety rules, not mere suggestions, and that every individual is responsible for ensuring we are successful in our efforts toward zero injuries. Partnerships in Safety Owens Corning is fully engaged with our industry partners to help influence safety and regulatory standards, which has a global impact and reinforces our position as a leader in safety. Through our active involvement and leadership in trade associations’ industrial hygiene or safety committees, we provide our industry with occupational-exposure monitoring data to aid in evaluating the potential impacts of regulatory activity and framing trade association input to developing standards. For decades, Owens Corning has been conducting regular industrial hygiene monitoring to assess and quantify the risks our employees may be exposed to and ensure that exposure is controlled to safe levels. We also participate in the Industrial Hygiene/Occupational Health committees that exist independently as part of both the Asphalt Roofing Manufacturers Association (ARMA) and the North American Insulation Manufacturers Association (NAIMA). We are one of the leading contributors of data to those associations. The aggregate data is used in trade association efforts to represent Owens Corning and our industry in rule-making and, through published articles, serve as a source of information to the industry customer base and the scientific community. The committees help set up protocols for data collection and maintain data sets that our customers, contractors, and installers rely on in their everyday operations. The Campbell Institute Owens Corning has been an active member of the National Safety Council (NSC) since 1943, and we are a charter member of the NSC’s Center for Excellence, the Campbell Institute. Many representatives of our company serve on steering teams, working groups, and advisory committees. This year, Owens Corning was a member of the NSC’s SAFER (Safe Actions for Employee Returns) Task Force, which provides resources for businesses as COVID-19 lockdowns began to ease and on-site work begins to resume. In addition, we are active with the American Society of Safety Professionals, the Voluntary Protection Programs Participants’ Association (VPPPA), and other organizations that promote safety solutions. Occupational Health Owens Corning has developed and deployed global safety standards and controls that integrate with our global occupational health and industrial hygiene process. We work to understand, control, and eliminate — whenever possible — the potential for exposure to work-related hazards that pose a risk to employee health. Exposure potentials are assessed and evaluated against established exposure limits to ensure risk is quantified and understood. This understanding drives efforts in mitigating, reducing, and eliminating these risks. Where exposure