Ensuring the safety of our employees is core value at Mauser Packaging Solutions. We are dedicated to the goal of having every employee return home safely each day. Achieving this goal demands both individual and collective commitment to creating a safer workplace every day.
Our safety performance improved in 2024 with Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) and Lost Time Incident Rate ending the year below rates from the previous year. 2024 year-ed TRIR was 1.86 and LRIT was 0.53. These results represent a 19.1% reduction in TRIR and 25.4% reduction in LTIR over 2023. While we celebrate the collective efforts that made these decreases possible, our safety journey does not end until we can guarantee no employee, or visitor is ever injured in our workplace. In 2025, Mauser is targeting a 10% reduction in both metrics. Achieving this reduction is a crucial step in our ongoing safety journey.
What does the next step in our safety journey look like?
The widely recognized 5 Stages of a Safety Culture illustrate the journey from a workplace susceptible to safety incidents to one of safety resilience, where safety is deeply embedded in every employee's behavior and integral to our business practices.
Over the past 4-5 years, Mauser has transitioned from a "Reactive" culture to a "Proactive" one, characterized by heightened safety awareness and comprehensive training. Our employees now take ownership of their personal safety and the safety of those around them. To advance to a "Resilient" safety culture, we must commit to addressing safety concerns and issues before they escalate into incidents. This involves integrating risk assessment into all systems and proactively identifying and eliminating potential problems.
As a company, we remain dedicated to investing in additional safety infrastructure and continuously implementing safety training, processes, and procedures to ensure our employees can work safely.
Maintaining a safe workplace is a new challenge every day, every shift, every minute. While achieving our past safety goals has helped establish safe behaviors, it does not guarantee future success unless we remain steadfast in our commitment to safety in everything we do.
Frontlines of Safety: Facility Features
Hamburg, Germany (MIPS)
The Hamburg, Germany facility has experienced a positive safety trend since 2021. After having 7 incidents in 2020, the facility reduced the number of incidents by half for the following two years. A single incident in 2022 currently stands as the last incident at the facility. Multiple incidents in 2020 provided opportunities for the facilities to identify risk areas and implement infrastructure and behavior modification to make the facility a safer workplace in the future.
Romeoville, Ill. (NAIP)
On February 28, the Romeoville, IL IBC Plant reached six years without a recordable incident. Plant Manager, Le Evans, credits the achievement to an integrated safety culture and collective ownership for safety from every employee. Facility safety at Romeoville is built on foundational principles that begin with an understanding that all accidents are avoidable and an expectation of employees to have situational awareness.
Driving Safety: Mauser Transportation Fleet 2024 Safety Results
Mauser’s transportation fleet continued executing on its commitment to protecting the safety of the drivers in our private fleet and those they encounter on the road and finished 2024 with improvement in primary metrics compared to 2023.
Additionally, Mauser’s focus on safety through increased awareness and training of drivers, equipment upgrades, and preventative inspections and maintenance have resulted in Mauser having a clean roadside inspection rate in 2024 that is 50% better than the industry average.
Our transportation fleet is a vital connection between Mauser Packaging Solutions and our customers. Responsible operation of our private fleet supports our broader commitment to safe and sustainable operations within our communities.