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摘要：To further promote these best practices, we selected several successful cases and created a series of concise, five-minute guides

5 Minute Guide for Hazard Reporting Reward Program: Best Practice of Covestro in China

The Work Safety Committee of the State Council has requested all production and business operation entities to establish an Internal Program Rewarding the Reporting of Work Safety Hazards by the end of 2025. At the beginning of this year,Shanghai Work Safety Committee compiled the booklet “A Collection of Best Practices for an Internal Program Rewarding the Reporting of Work Safety Hazards”.

To further promote these best practices, we selected several successful cases and created a series of concise, five-minute guides to help all entities create and deploy their own programs. Today’s story is from Covestro in China.

Covestro Polymer (China) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Covestro) located in Shanghai Chemeical Industry Park has created a safety culture centered on "zero distance" and established an effectively functioning internal hazard reporting and reward mechanism.

Management Philosophy: Combining Immediate Corrective Actions with Long-Term Operational Standards.

To encourage all employees to fulfill their roles in reporting hazards, Covestro has adopted its global integrated information management system consisting of three modules: Good Catch, Job Safety Behavior Observation(JSBO) and Near Miss.

Good Catch: Covestro encourages all employees to take on the role of "problem solvers," and promotes "zero distance" between management and frontlines. When an employee notices a simple unsafe issue or unsafe conditions, he or she can immediately report it to the management team via the Good Catch module as well as the following corrective actions. As a result, the Good Catch module records more than 500 cases every year. By handling, mitigating, analyzing and sharing these cases, the company guides all employees to establish safe behaviors.

JSBO: The company encourages employees to take on the role of "assessors," promoting "zero distance" between risks and countermeasures. Through the JSBO module, all employees can observe the operational status of each task and evaluate whether any improvement is needed. With contribution from a professional safety management team and well-educated frontline employees, the system records over 5,000 cases throughout the year. By this, employees further optimize and improve their operational standards, enhancing safety awareness and safety capabilities.

Near Miss: Covestro insists on zero-distance execution - between procedures and implementation - to proactively prevent accidents. The company consistently adheres to the management philosophy of "ensuring execution," comprehensively identifying risks involved in different operational procedures. Covestro leverages this module to promote full-process control of risk mitigation, identification, and rectification. This module records over 6,000 cases annually, thereby significantly reducing risks.

Incentive Program: Rewarding Employees Through Both Honors and Prizes

Covestro conducts periodic evaluations of Good Catch, JSBO, and Near Miss reports. Excellent cases will be rewarded in a recognition list which will be shared with other employees. This practice effectively establishes positive role models and encourages other employees to actively follow. At the same time, employees will receive corresponding rewards with bonus amounts ranging from several hundred to several thousand yuan.

Above and Beyond: Cultivating a Safety Culture for All

Maximize the benefits of hazard management. Through daily management practices by everyone, employees form behavioral habits, duties fulfillment, proactively identifies, timely detection and address potential risks, intervening before risks develop into serious accidents. The process of hazard identification and management, combined with data analysis, drives business operations to become more refined and efficient, amplifying the effectiveness and output of hazard identification and management efforts.

Make every employee part of the safety culture. Encourage employees to think critically when handling safety hazards, applying lessons learned across situations to mitigate risks before accidents develop. Create a bidirectional safety culture that flows both top-down and bottom-up, empowering employees in safety management and actively shifting from "being required to be safe" to "wanting to be safe."

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