Engro Fertilizers wins DuPont Global Safety Innovation Award.

KARACHI -- Engro Fertilizers, Pakistan's premier seed-to-harvest solutions provider that is ranked amongst the world's top 50 fertilizer manufacturing and marketing companies, has been declared as one of only three global award winners at the virtual ceremony of 14th DuPont Safety and Sustainability Awards.

As a recipient of the Global Safety Innovation Award, Engro Fertilizers has been recognized for making innovative and systemic changes to its operations to achieve higher health, safety, and environment (HSE) standards. The company undertook a root and branch overhaul of its safety systems, invested in digitization initiatives, and doubled down efforts on development of new capabilities. In line with Engro's philosophy of being world class in HSE, the all-encompassing Safety Beyond Excellence strategy led to an 87% reduction in the Total Recordable Incident Rate, resulted in a sharp reduction in operational upsets/fire incidents, significantly improved risk management and led to an increase in employee and stakeholder engagement.

The other two DuPont global award winners are Dubai Municipality, UAE and SMRT Trains Ltd, Singapore. Engro Fertilizers edged out Saudi Arabia-based Saudi Aramco, named the winner in the EMEA region, and Brazil-based UsinaCoruripe, which took home the Americas award.

Sharing the company's journey of safety excellence and achievements in a panel discussion, Nadir Qureshi: CEO of Engro Fertilizers, said, 'A relentless commitment to safety is one of the core values of Engro. We have always strived to set world class HSE standards for both our employees and the communities in which...