Health and Safety

Pursuing zero harm to people and the environment

Our Commitment: We are committed to providing employees a safe workplace which is outlined in our Global Environment, Health, Safety & Sustainability Policy (Global EHS&S Policy) and Code of Conduct. All Post employees and contractors are responsible for understanding, promoting and implementing this policy, following our operating principles, and complying with our Code of Conduct. Through regular communications between safety teams and leaders, we strive to continuously improve and update our safety protocols and practices in pursuit of our vision to provide products and services to our customers with zero harm to people and the environment.

Our Progress: We have consistently outperformed health and safety rates for food manufacturing companies (NAICS 311) for both Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) recordable and lost time injury rates.

OSHA Recordable Rate (left) and OSHA Lost Time Injury Rate (right)

EHS&S Management System

We use a proprietary, international standards-based EHS&S Management System, which includes regular internal and external auditing and associated corrective actions, supporting our mission of providing products and services to our customers with no harm to people and the environment. The Management System is designed around a comprehensive framework of 16 EHS&S elements:

  1. Leadership and Administration
  2. Training
  3. Planned Inspections and Maintenance
  4. Accident/Incident Investigation and Analysis
  5. Compliance, Rules and Permits
  6. Ergonomics
  7. Health and Hygiene Controls
  8. General Promotion
  9. Group Communication
  10. Emergency Preparedness
  11. Engineering Controls and Change Management
  12. Environmental Management
  13. Contractors
  14. Claims and Medical Management
  15. Motor Fleet Safety
  16. Program Assessment

Within these 16 elements, there are approximately 1,800 auditable requirements including, but not limited to, the following:

  • Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (including JHA/JSA, ergonomics, temperature extremes, PPE, and other requirements)
  • Action Plans, Targets and Performance Assessment (including safety performance standards, risk project/hazard index, loss control planning, targets and objectives for safety teams, incorporating performance into meetings, and other requirements)
  • Training and Awareness (Element 2)
  • Internal Inspections (Element 3)
  • Incident Investigation (Element 4)
  • Emergency Preparedness (Element 10)
  • Alignment With International Standards and External Verification (Aligns with national and international standards, such as ANSI Z-10 and ISO 45001. All sites are internally audited annually, and sites are also externally audited by third-party providers, customers and regulators)

All sites are internally audited annually across all 16 elements and approximately 1,800 auditable requirements to continuously improve and move beyond compliance.

Our Global EHS&S Policy is implemented by each operational site using this proprietary EHS&S management system with requirements that all operational sites have:

  • An effective policy that raises the bar beyond just regulatory compliance and expresses the company commitment to stewardship, the reduction of our environmental impacts and people safety.

  • Formally assigned roles, responsibilities and authorities for regulatory compliance. Based on the PHI Business Conduct Policy, the Plant Manager is ultimately responsible for facility compliance and the expectation (and authority) to develop and implement the environmental compliance programs typically would be department managers such as the EHS Manager.
  • Processes and procedures for identifying hazards, evaluating risk exposure and implementing effective exposure reduction strategies.

  • Documented evidence of all key personnel having received appropriate EHS&S training for their role, including completion of all legally and certification required training with a process to identify and address gaps and EHS&S awareness for all new hires.

  • An EHS&S Action Plan or similar document to track tasks, maintain a compliance calendar, monitor progress against goals, and facilitate capital program strategies as they relate to compliance, environmental stewardship and safety. The plan should have a documented, semi-annual review by the Plant Manager or VP of Operations.

  • An audit, at least annually, to assess compliance and EHS&S management system conformance.

  • A commitment to implement corrective actions and continuous EHS&S performance improvement.

We also expect our suppliers to share our high standard of business ethics and we work with those that act in a socially, environmentally and economically responsible manner.

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Current Focus

We are proud of our health and safety performance and continue to be focused on the following core areas:

  • Continuously improving our comprehensive safety and risk management system, which incorporates rigorous safety standards and practices.
  • Proactively identifying hazards and implementing effective exposure reduction strategies for high-energy or high-risk work activities, including human behaviors, artificial intelligence technology and training.
  • Enhancing our root cause analysis process for more effective and sustained preventative actions.
  • Effectively training employees and leadership to ensure consistent implementation of our safety protocols.
  • Implementing a robust change management process designed to identify and eliminate risk to human and food safety, as well as the environment, prior to change implementation.
  • Completing approximately 50 EHS&S site audits annually to assess regulatory compliance and conformance to our EHS&S Management System requirements. During fiscal year 2025, we also partnered
    with a third-party auditing resource to enhance our internal auditing processes.
  • Implementing an improved contractor oversight process to ensure our external partners perform to our standards and expectations.