We ensure the health and safety of our team members by using advanced management systems and certifications that enable adoption and consistent implementation on a global scale. All manufacturing sites, as well as our headquarters, are certified to the ISO 45001 standard for Occupational Health and Safety, and are audited both externally and internally for third-party certification.
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Health and Safety
NXP is committed to ensuring a safe and healthy workplace for our team members, partners and visitors. Despite increased demand for our products in 2022, which led to an increase in production activity, we maintained a low injury rate that remains among the lowest in the industry.
Health and Safety Goal
Achieve zero workplace injuries and illnesses.
2022 Health and Safety Performance Snapshot
Health
We are committed to maintaining an EHS culture that fosters a healthy and productive work environment. "Health" encompasses medical and physical well-being, as well as emotional and mental wellness.
Health Programs
Medical
All our manufacturing sites employ occupational-health specialists, and most have onsite clinics. Most of our non-manufacturing sites employ occupational-health specialists as well. We contract doctors at certain locations for job-related medical services for our team members. We offer comprehensive health-insurance plans, and many of our sites organize annual physicals and preventative health screenings, including flu shots.
Physical
Several of our global sites offer subsidized gym-membership plans, access to fitness classes and/or onsite fitness facilities. In addition to physical fitness, we offer programs and guidance on nutrition, weight loss and avoiding unhealthy habits, such as smoking, drinking and drug use.
Emotional/Mental
Team members are offered resources and assistance programs to source and/or consult with specialists for mental well-being and help in dealing with major life events. In addition, our Human Resources team members are available to help address other workplace concerns. NXP also offers a variety of internal and external online resources addressing various life events.
Safety
All our manufacturing sites have Health and Safety experts who specialize in supervising protective measures and creating safe and ergonomically friendly workplaces. All areas of the workplace are incorporated, including areas of production, offices, labs and other technical areas.
Our proactive safety initiatives include:
- Employee Emergency Response Teams that perform regular training and drills
- Active participation of non-management team members in site-level safety committees/councils
- Multiple grievance mechanisms available to team members that enable anyone to report safety concerns directly or anonymously to management
- 'Stop-work' authority, which lets any team member intervene when they believe an activity or a behavior may pose an imminent danger
- Unannounced safety walkthroughs, performed by trained managers, to identify potential issues and recognize positive actions that contribute to our EHS culture
- Incident analysis, including near-misses, first aid and high-potential events to identify opportunities for improvement
- Prevention measures and safety practices adapted to suit different situations
Governance
Key environmental principles are embedded in Sustainability Policy , a document signed and approved by our CEO. The Sustainability Policy is developed and deployed by the Sustainability Management team.
EHS Management Board
The governance of Health and Safety lies within the EHS Management Board, which consists of executives and senior leaders who define the development, approval, purpose, value, strategies, policies and goals, along with the metrics used to gauge the success of each plan.
EHS Leadership Team
Corporate EHS and the Global EHS Leadership Team collectively establish risk-mitigation strategies and develop and deploy standards, programs and procedures to reduce risks to health and safety worldwide.
Certification
Evaluation
Proactively assess our management systems to identify and mitigate any potential risks or hazards for both environmental and social updates or issues.
Risk Assessments
We conduct annual risk assessments to evaluate the in-place management system and identify any potential risks or safety hazards. Each year we consider the likelihood of a given occurrence and proactively mitigate risks and hazards through programs, procedures and engineering controls.
Self-Assessments
During annual EHS self-assessments, each site completes a checklist that evaluates the Management System elements of the ISO 45001 standard. To address issues, each site creates a corrective action plan and closes out the nonconformances accordingly. As part of our membership in the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA), each manufacturing site also completes an RBA Self-Assessment questionnaire that, among other topics, addresses health and safety as well as elements of the management systems.
Audits
The EHS and Social Responsibility teams use external audit firms to conduct internal EHS-related audits. These selected firms are experts in the standards for EHS Management Systems and NXP Social Responsibility Standards.
Internal EHS audits are typically conducted approximately every 30 months and audit nonconformances are categorized according to severity.
Training
Company-wide, NXP trains our team members to ensure they are equipped with the skills and knowledge to perform their functions safely. This includes:
- Job-specific and site-specific training
- On-the-job training
- Specialized training
- Chemical handling
- Chemical management and safety
- Emergency response
- Ergonomics
- Other safety-related topics
Validation
The Sustainability Office validates the information entered in the Health and Safety database. Validation consists of the following steps:
- Check for completeness of data (sites and parameters)
- Compare data from the reporting period with data from previous periods
- Determine whether changes in data are significant
- Seek explanations for significant data changes
- Compare related data (e.g., number of illnesses and injuries versus lost workdays)
- Investigate notable events
The EHS Teams at each manufacturing site meet weekly with the senior manufacturing management to review performance, the progress of improvement projects and expectations for each project milestone.
To ensure reliable and accurate reporting, we conduct internal audits of our manufacturing sites, large offices and R&D sites, checking for proper reporting procedures and data trails.
Results
In 2022, there were no incidents that resulted in fines or sanctions in connection with noncompliance of Health and Safety laws or regulations. There were no fatal work-related accidents for our workers or contractors.
Injury Rate
We maintained a low Total Case Incident Rate (TCIR) of 0.10 in 2022, and remain well below the semiconductor-industry averages published by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) and the European Semiconductor Industry Association (ESIA), which ranges from 0.38 to 1.03.
Occupational Illnesses and Injuries
In 2022, we saw a slight uptick in recordable injuries as we returned to pre-COVID-19 pandemic staffing levels. We will continue to investigate all work-related injuries to determine root causes and corrective/preventative actions.
Injury Occurrence by Workplace Environment
We continue to emphasize the importance of providing a safe workplace by not only measuring our injury rate but also identifying trends, conducting year-on-year analyses and categorizing injury types to help identify corrective actions.
Injury by Category
Severity Rate
Although our severity rate ticked up in 2022, the overall severity rate continues to trend downward. An increase in severity rate can be due to just one or two incidents where additional medical time off is needed. We continue to look for preventative measures to reduce the number of incidents.
Supporting the UN SDGs
Aligning NXP’s products, operations and engagements with the UN Sustainable Development Goals to combat global challenges related to economic, social and environmental sustainability.
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