2021 Owens Corning Sustainability Report | Expanding Our Social Handprint | Living Safely | 248 Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) Committees Our safety goal can only be met through the active engagement of our employees in promoting safety and identifying and reducing the risk of injury. Because tasks vary at different plants, facilities have established a variety of EHS initiatives, and all employees and management are encouraged to take part in them. Every Owens Corning manufacturing location, regardless of size, has an EHS professional on site. Initiatives include the following: ■ Oversight safety committees. ■ Behavior-based safety observation teams. ■ Hazard recognition teams. ■ Serious Injury and Fatality (SIF) prevention initiatives. ■ Green teams (environmental). ■ Employee wellness teams. Representative safety teams at each plant communicate employee concerns, then review and roll out plant safety programs. The safety team is responsible for communicating plant leadership responses to safety concerns and programs brought through the safety committee. The team is also responsible for sharing best practices at their plant, and they share these findings among other facilities by submitting best practices to the enterprise safety website. Preventing Serious Injuries & Fatalities (SIF) Like many other companies around the world, Owens Corning is thinking differently about the best ways to prevent serious injuries and fatalities (SIF). In the past, it was believed that serious injuries and fatalities were caused by the same issues as more common and minor injuries. Newer studies — and our own experience — demonstrate that the factors that contribute to SIF events are often very different. We now track incidents with high potential for SIF as a separate category, which helps us focus on less common but potentially more severe hazards. Identifying and eliminating the precursors for these incidents is the best way to reduce all injuries. This focus on severity also requires us to work to eliminate precursors to SIF, even when no injury has occurred. When a near miss occurs, we must ask ourselves, “What if?” As safety incidents — both injuries and near- misses — are reported and we conduct proactive risk assessments, we evaluate them based on how severe the injuries were or might have been. The most serious will get immediate attention. Our SIF standards include: ■ Automobile Safety. ■ Confined Space. ■ Electrical Safety. ■ Hot Work Safety. ■ Lock-Tag-Try. ■ Machine Guarding. ■ Powered Industrial Vehicles (PIV). ■ Warehouse Safety. ■ Working from Heights. This year, we have placed an even greater emphasis on SIF prevention as it relates to the safety of our contractors. In the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, Owens Corning partners with ISN to review our contractor safety programs. As part of our ISN process, contractors must submit their applicable SIF prevention processes for review to determine if they meet minimum expectations for working at an Owens Corning facility. If it is determined that they do not meet expectations, the contractor is provided feedback so they can strengthen their programs for resubmittal and reconsideration. Additionally, any contractor company that has had a fatality within the last three years is automatically eliminated from consideration for work at an Owens Corning facility until they submit acceptable information detailing how the fatality occurred and what actions were taken to prevent this or similar events in the future. The concept is now being expanded into Europe, using software that has been developed internally to review SIF programs that are specific to the types of work performed by Owens Corning contractors. This software is being tested at our plant in Besana, Italy, and we intend to roll it out in Europe in the coming months, and in Asia Pacific in 2023.