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Operational excellence

World-leading operations performance

Since our establishment, Dow Thailand Group has been keeping the environment, occupational health,
and safety at the heart of our operations. We strive to operate responsibly—dedicated to safety—and
conserve and efficiently use energy to achieve our goal of growing our business sustainably.

Increasing safety standards while Real-time heat index alarm
decreasing work accidents The system warns employees when the heat
Dow's manufacturing is committed to index in the working area is high and may cause health
maintaining international standards in our effects. This system provides instantaneous alerts via
operations while developing new stringent radio communication (real-time) so that employees
standards. Achievements in 2020 are the following: working in the plant are aware of the heat hazards and
advance warning (heat index forecast). Employees can
Outstanding performance in plants turnaround access the information at any time via the web page,
We were able to conduct major maintenance LINE, or by calling the staff.
in three plants over a total of 572,537 hours
without any accidents in 2020. We have complied Efficient use of resources and waste
with laws and regulations and completed the management
turnaround without complaints from neighboring Each of our plants continuously performs
areas and communities. Important measures are: various activities to reduce the energy consumption
● COVID-19 prevention management plans per unit of production. In addition, there is a program
which covered workers' transportation, working to reduce water consumption and promote the
areas, and resting areas, such as initial health reduction of wastewater in the production process.
checkup, social distancing, wearing masks, and Instead of sending the water to be treated
general cleanliness. immediately after use, we reuse it without affecting
● Health screening of workers to match their the quality of the product. At present, we successfully
type of work (fit for duty), such as those who must send 'Zero' waste to landfills and conduct various
work at high heights. activities to reuse resources circularly.
● Traffic management in the operations area,
walking path, and cordoning off the operational areas Our waste disposal
of heavy machinery. 30.1%
51.3% Elimination by

Industrial hygiene incineration
Recycling

Analysis and reduction of noise sources in the
work area with noise acoustic camera technology.
The latest technology helps identify noise
sources in the work area and discovers the sound
source clearly and quickly. The results can be 18.6%
used for precise and high-efficiency machining
improvements to reduce the noise in the work area. 0% Use as an
Send to landfill alternative fuel
Employees are also made safer.

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