Our Focus on Labor and Human Rights

Safety
Heinz has a strong track record of providing safe working conditions and regular safety training that meets our high standards.

At Heinz, our most important goal is to assure employee safety. In the past five years, Heinz regrettably had two employee fatalities, which occurred at factories overseas. After those cases, Heinz took immediate action to review and enhance safety training and procedures in those manufacturing facilities.

In the four-year period through the end of 2006, Heinz reduced the lost time injury frequency rate of employees at our North American manufacturing sites by almost half to 0.75. This means that less than one employee per 100 employees incurred a lost time injury. The industry benchmark is 1.6 per 100 employees.

Eliminating occupational injuries and illnesses is also a primary focus of the Heinz Safety Process. Under this process, Heinz employs safety professionals at each manufacturing location to ensure compliance with safety standards and regulations, and conduct safety audits twice a year to assess and benchmark safety performance. The audit results are used to establish annual Safety Health Accident Reduction Plans. We also hold annual Environment, Health and Safety conferences worldwide to focus on continuous safety improvement.

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