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 Our company has a global policy to operate safely and responsibly to protect our associates, our suppliers, our customers, the communities where we operate and the environment. We are committed to continuously improving our environmental, health and safety (EHS) performance. By doing so, we will create a safe and healthy workplace, take responsible care of environmental resources and develop sustainable technologies and business practices that contribute to global economic growth and prosperity.
Every Timken associate is responsible for understanding and supporting this policy and the following objectives:
- Comply with all EHS laws, regulations, company policies and standards and require the same from our suppliers.
- Take EHS performance a priority in our business and operations planning and decision-making. We are guided by our core value of ethics and integrity to do what is right.
- Expect associates and contractors to always conduct their activities safely and responsibly.
- We help them do this through education and training.
- Be diligent in identifying and assessing risks and potential hazards that can affect our environmental, health and safety performance and be quick to take corrective action.
- Support environmental sustainability through pollution prevention, waste management, recycling, energy conservation and energy-saving product innovations in friction management and power transmission.
- Measure and assess our progress toward our EHS objectives and communicate this regularly to interested stakeholders.
We expect managers to provide the leadership for delivering on our EHS objectives. Likewise, we expect every Timken associate to contribute through decision-making and actions that are consistent with these objectives. If you become aware of any activities that are in conflict with this policy, report the situation to your supervisor, manager or any of the ethics reporting resources.
Q: Sam and his team had some trouble degreasing bearings that needed repair. A supplier tells Sam that they can provide a free sample of a much stronger degreasing solution. Sam responds that our policy is to conduct a safety review first. The supplier says that Timken only reviews purchased chemicals and not free samples. Sam doesn’t feel right about this. What should he tell the supplier?
A: Sam is correct – our policy is to review any chemicals before we use them, regardless of whether they are “free samples.” The solution may not be safe, and a material safety data sheet (MSDS) is necessary to review its ingredients. If the chemical was spilled or caused an injury to an associate, our emergency response teams could not properly respond without the MSDS. Sam must refuse the sample until a proper safety review can be conducted.
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