RPM prioritizes and works to improve support for our associates’ mental, emotional and physical wellbeing. Environmental, health and safety (EHS) is overseen by RPM’s Vice President of EHS through our center-led approach. This involves close coordination and cooperation with our operating group EHS leaders and other EHS professionals at our operating companies monitoring associate health and safety.
Our Core EHS Fundamentals facilitate the prevention of and proactive response to safety incidents by requiring accountability at all RPM locations. We provide EHS guidance on best practices and reinforce shared responsibility for safety to all associates and leaders. Through our center-led EHS management program, we identify improvement opportunities and areas of focus both locally and on a consolidated, corporate-wide basis. We deliver center-led EHS leadership training programs, implement EHS policies and procedures specific to our facilities and establish goals to address areas for improvement. In the event of an incident, we require an incident investigation report with a full root-cause analysis to be submitted to senior EHS management and operating company presidents for each recordable safety incident.
To cultivate a proactive safety culture, we set high expectations and operational standards aligned with our Environmental, Health and Safety Policy. Six Core EHS Fundamentals help us uphold this culture:
- Safety Vision
- Engagement & Accountability
- Commitment to Professional Resources
- Measure & Report Safety Metrics
- Establish Safety Goals
- Continuous Improvement
HIGHLIGHT
Viapol's manufacturing facilities in Brazil achieved notable safety milestones in FY26, reflecting the company's commitment to workplace safety and incident prevention. The Caçapava facility surpassed 300 days without a lost-time incident, while the Candeias facility reached five years without a lost-time accident, showing the impact of a strong safety culture and continuous focus on associate wellbeing.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Learn more about our key EHS metrics and performance on our Reports & Downloads page.
We embed safety into our culture through the deployment of regular center-led communications with plant and distribution center associates, as well as temporary workers. Through frequent and multifaceted methods of communication, compliance and safety topics remain at the forefront of our engagement with our global workforce to reinforce our safety commitments through education and action, and to comply with regulatory obligations.
A few of the ways we incorporate safety messages into our regular communications with employees include toolbox talks and EHS topic posters in multiple languages, quarterly EHS professional development webinars, monthly and annual EHS leadership forums and weekly and monthly EHS training programs at local and regional levels.
EHS highlights from FY26 include:
RPM sponsored Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) Team Leader training at Tremco CPG UK's Wigan facility, helping associates strengthen their ability to identify, assess and proactively manage process safety risks in manufacturing operations.
Nearly 80 EHS leaders and operations managers gathered at RPM's global headquarters in Medina, Ohio, for a two-day conference focused on advancing safety performance through best-practice sharing, emerging technologies and cross-functional collaboration.
EUCOMEX commemorated World Day for Safety and Health at Work through associate awareness activities and training, reinforcing the company's commitment to workplace safety and a culture of continuous improvement.
The total recordable incident rate (TRIR) and days away, restricted or transferred (DART) rate across RPM facilities has steadily declined since 2022.
HIGHLIGHT
Safety remains a core focus throughout RPM's operations. Guided by our Core EHS Fundamentals, dedicated EHS managers promote a proactive safety culture centered on shared accountability, incident prevention and continuous improvement. These efforts have helped drive a nearly 50% reduction in recordable workplace injuries since the creation of RPM's MAP program.
