Safety, health and wellness are foundational to building high performing teams and delivering consistent business outcomes. Protecting employees, contractors and visitors is embedded in Ecolab’s values and reinforced through a Goal Zero mindset focused on zero incidents, zero injuries and zero violations. This commitment is shared across the organization and reinforced every day through leadership expectations, training and operational discipline.
Health, Wellness and Safety
We are committed to safety excellence.
In 2025, we continued our commitment to safety excellence.
Safety On the Road
Keeping our associates safe when they are on the road is one of our top priorities. Ecolab’s more than 26,000 sales-and-service associates regularly drive to and from customer locations. Continuous driver safety training is key to achieving our safety goal and part of our commitment to do all we can to improve driving behaviors and keep our teams safe behind the wheel.
Our focus on innovation and technology has helped us improve driver behavior and enhance driver safety. As a result, we have reduced our total vehicle accident rate by 45% per million miles driven since 2013, globally. Our severe vehicle accident rate remains lower than the benchmark, at 0.068 per one million miles driven.
Nearly
19,000 Drivers
Used the Virtual Risk Manager program and MentorSM application, or have an dash cam installed in their company vehicle, to promote continuous self-improvement.
Safety Through Training
Training reinforces awareness of safety responsibilities, expected behaviors and the importance of individual accountability in achieving a Goal Zero mindset. Employees are equipped to recognize hazards, understand the potential consequences of their actions and intervene when conditions are unsafe. In 2025, 95% of employees completed Safety Onboarding within their first 30 days of employment.
In 2025, our global total recordable incident rate decreased by 58% from a 2013 baseline globally.
Progress in Safety
58% Reduction
58% Reduction
In total recordable incident rate since 2013, globally
In total recordable incident rate since 2013, globally
50% Reduction
50% Reduction
In lost-time incident rate since 2016, North America
In lost-time incident rate since 2016, North America
45% Reduction
45% Reduction
In total vehicle accident rate since 2013, globally
In total vehicle accident rate since 2013, globally
60% Reduction
60% Reduction
In severe vehicle accident rate since 2013, globally
In severe vehicle accident rate since 2013, globally
2025 Safety Metrics
Total Recordable incident Rate (TRIR)
Number of incidents per 200,000 working hours:
| 2024 | 2025 | % Change | |
|---|---|---|---|
| North America | 1.40 | 1.35 | -4% |
| Greater China | 0.05 | 0.00 | -100% |
| Europe | 0.48 | 0.49 | 2% |
| International Markets | 0.20 | 0.19 | -5% |
| TOTAL | 0.75 | 0.70 | -7% |
LOST-TIME incident RATE (LTIR)
Number of incidents with lost days per 200,000 hours worked
| 2024 | 2025 | % Change | |
|---|---|---|---|
| North America | 0.66 | 0.50 | -24% |
TOTAL VEHICLE ACCIDENT RATE (TVAR)
Number of vehicular accidents per million miles driven
| 2024 | 2025 | % Change | |
|---|---|---|---|
| North America | 2.17 | 1.88 | -13% |
| Greater China | 0.32 | 0.21 | -34% |
| Europe | 2.60 | 2.26 | -13% |
| International Markets | 1.85 | 1.73 | -6% |
| TOTAL | 2.09 | 1.85 | -11% |
SEVERE VEHICLE ACCIDENT RATE (SVAR)
Number of severe vehicular accidents per million miles driven
| 2024 | 2024 | % Change | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global | 0.078 | 0.068 | -13% |
*Includes fatalities, bodily injuries, vehicle rollovers, incidents involving drugs and/or alcohol and environmental spills to ground or waterways
FATALITIES
| 2024 | 2025 | % Change | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecolab Employees | 1 | 0 | 100% |
| Contract Employees | 0 | 0 | 0% |
Occupational Illness Frequency Rate (OIFR)
Number of occupational illnesses per 200,000 working hours
| 2024 | 2025 | % Change | |
|---|---|---|---|
| North America | 0.08 | 0.05 | -38% |
| Greater China | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0% |
| Europe | 0.004 | 0.00 | -100% |
| International Markets | 0.03 | 0.05 | 67% |
| TOTAL | 0.05 | 0.04 | -20% |
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Ecolab Global Headquarters
Office of Corporate Sustainability
1 Ecolab Place
St. Paul, MN 55102
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