Kimberly-Clark believes that occupational injuries and illnesses are preventable and can be eliminated. We manage occupational safety and hygiene globally for the protection of our employees, contractors and visitors. Our new policy on occupational safety, adopted in 2008, commits us to aggressively driving towards the elimination of all occupational injuries, illnesses, disabilities and fatalities.

Our businesses are committed to:

• Ensuring that safety is a fundamental enterprise value which is integrated into our research and engineering, product development, manufacturing, delivery, and sales activities.
• Providing a workplace that is in compliance with all applicable occupational safety and hygiene laws and regulations and in conformance to Kimberly-Clark’s occupational safety and hygiene standards.
• Establishing occupational safety and hygiene standards and technical guidance based on best practices and benchmarking to support our global operations in the control of workplace hazards.
• Developing, implementing, sustaining, continually improving and regularly assessing the K-C Environment, Health and Safety management system in order to achieve continual improvement of occupational safety and hygiene performance.
• Fostering an environment in which all K-C personnel are expected to contribute to safety improvements by clearly understanding their role and their obligation to support occupational safety and hygiene objectives, to conform to K-C’s standards, and to comply with applicable safety and hygiene regulations.

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