Oxiteno's culture provides for the permanent reinforcement of the safe attitude. The performance is the result of a management focused on the hazards and their potential impacts through the identification of the risk at each stage of the production process and also in the various complementary activities carried out, reducing the probability of a failure and investing in the capacity of the employees in detect deviations and correct them.

Occupational health and work safety G4-DMA

The production processes use products with potential health risks, but all preventive measures are taken and rigorous medical supervision is carried out. There is no case of specific disease related to contact with these products or in relation to the work environment. Reinforcing safe practices, occupational hygiene programs aimed at worker exposure prevention are widely disseminated and disseminated by the company. G4-LA7

The pillars of the OHSAS 18.001 standard are incorporated into the company's integrated management system and guide management in occupational health and safety. In 2017, the Suzano unit (SP) went through the certification process, integrating the group of units already certified: Camaçari (BA), Mauá (SP) and Triunfo (RS). The focus in 2018 will be at the Tremembé (SP) unit, which is preparing to obtain certification. In relation to the international units, the planning is elaborated for execution in the next years.

In 2017, the company faced the corporate challenge of reviewing the work permit procedure. The process involved the units of Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela and aims to ensure a single procedure that meets the needs of the regions.

In the pillar of emergency care, the advance was in the consecration of the guidelines, the first related to the preparation and development of the Emergency Care Plan, and the second related to the inspections and tests of emergency care equipment. The units of Brazil have advanced in the publications of their respective contingency plans in 2017. The efforts in 2018 will be directed to the international units, starting with Uruguay and Mexico. It should be stressed that this new model is part of the work started in 2015, with Ultra's demand, whose objective was to carry out an evaluation process that covered the capacity to respond to eventual emergencies in the context of the elements of Preparation, Planning and Emergency Response.

Management in health and safety has as guideline the standard OHSAS18.001.

With this same scope, the unit of Uruguay passed the diagnosis in 2017, finalizing the activity in the Mercosur region. By 2018, the proposal is to move forward with the model for the Mexican units, which will allow a broad diagnosis to direct the efforts for the management of emergency response. Also to meet the scope of Ultra, in 2017, qualitative and quantitative assessments of fire protection systems and components were completed in Tremembé (SP). This initiative has already been carried out at the Mauá unit (SP). The result allows identifying if the resources and equipment available to fight emergencies are efficient when required.

TRAINING AND AUDITS

In December 2017, the Mauá (SP) operation carried out the largest and most complete emergency simulation of its history at the Grande ABC Petrochemical Complex. A product leak was simulated, followed by the complete abandonment of the petrochemical complex, with the participation of firefighters, companies that integrate the Mutual Assistance Plan, civil defense and other security agencies to evaluate the operation of prevention and mitigation of impact in the region.

The company also sponsored the first course focused on safe behavior for professionals in the region of São Paulo ABC, conducted in partnership with a consulting firm. Twenty employees from Oxiteno and 12 professionals from the region participated.

In Uruguay, the elaboration of the Task Risk Assessment (TRA) began in 2017, which contributes to the future certification process in OHSAS 18001 and includes risk analysis and mapping of the tasks of Oxiteno employees and contracted companies. The objective is to increase risk analysis, strengthening the culture of the safe attitude, which has gained strength with the intensification of training in the last two years. There were 45 trainings in 2017, two per week.

At the Mauá unit (SP), audits focused on employee behavior were intensified, with approximately 1,300 behavioral observations being performed in the year.

Finally, with regard to health and safety information systems, the company has completed the implementation of the system adopted in Brazil at the units of Mexico, consolidating a single base for data management and equalizing processes, which brings more speed to the access to information. For the units in Brazil, the system is being prepared to meet the demands required by the e-Social, which has its period of validity at the beginning of 2019 for health and safety issues.

The largest and most complete emergency simulation of the history of the site in Mauá (SP) was held at the Grande ABC Petrochemical Complex.

RATES OF INJURIES, OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES AND LOST DAYS G4-LA6

1 Data consider unit in Brazil + Headquarters + GEDEA (employees, interns and third parties). The health and safety data recording system does not discriminate data by gender or type of hiring.
2 Calculated from the total number of days lost related to typical work accidents * 1,000,000 / HHT Total. In 2015, 6,000 days were lost due to the fatality in the period, according to the guidance of NBR 14280.

Safety and process

In 2017, Oxiteno's Process Hazard Analysis (PHA – ) Program now covers the Guadalajara and San Juan del Río units in Mexico, as well as Oleoquímica, in Camaçari. Currently, the program goes through the second cycle of revalidation of its five-year plan - 65% of the units have been revalidated, a rate that will reach 100% in 2019. The periodic recycling of the process hazards and risks assessment reinforces the implementation of prevention and mitigation barriers for possible deviations, as well as ensuring the value of the safety topic in the company.

Periodic recycling of hazard and process risk assessment reinforces the implementation of prevention and mitigation barriers.

Product safety G4-DMA G4-PR1

Oxiteno maintains structured processes to classify physical, health and environmental hazards and ensure compliance with national and international safety and environmental requirements in the manufacture, use, storage, transportation and final destination of its products.

Toxicological and ecotoxicological information is analyzed to carry out the hazard classification of chemicals. There is also monitoring national and international trends to identify risks that may affect business through the use of legislation monitoring tools and participation in industry organizations. G4-14

Products and raw materials meet the classification and labeling standards for chemical products and transport in force. 100% of the new products developed in 2017 were evaluated according to the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS).

Chemical Safety Data Sheets (SDSs), Emergency Sheets and Labels are also produced, with data on components contributing to hazards and precautionary, storage, handling and disposal recommendations, as well as legal requirements.

Oxiteno provides a corporate system for project management that records and retrieves the information of all products sold. Audits, dissemination of information, guidelines and alerts are also carried out to comply with laws, resolutions and regulatory standards, in order to minimize incidences of nonconformities and improve operations.