Governance and Policies
At Dover, our employees are our most valuable asset. We believe that a healthy and safe workforce is an engaged workforce—a workforce that is ready to collaborate as a team and
able to produce quality products and solutions for our customers.
The Dover corporate center’s Employee Health and Safety ("EHS") team oversees our global health and safety programs and supports our operating companies in developing policies,
strategies and best practices to manage EHS performance. The Dover Employee Health and Safety Leadership Council ("EHS LC"), composed of EHS leaders from each of our operating
companies, then establishes the overall EHS strategy for Dover. The EHS LC meets several times throughout the year, virtually and in-person, to discuss strategy implementation.
We expect ourselves and our operating companies to manage our workforce responsibly, in compliance with applicable laws and regulations. Given the diversity of Dover’s portfolio,
operating companies face varying environmental, health and safety risks and operational needs. As a result, each operating company maintains its own EHS policies aligned to its
specific risk profile and jurisdiction.
Actions and Initiatives
Zero Harm Program: At the center of the Zero Harm Program are ten Zero Harm Commitments that have been established to help
employees recognize and avoid potentially life-threatening situations. The Zero Harm Commitments support our EHS policies and provide clear guidance on the environmental, health
and safety risks we face in daily operations. In celebration of Earth Day 2026, Dover recently added a tenth commitment, "I Will Preserve and Protect the Environment,” to reflect
an expanded focus on environmental stewardship.
Through the program, Dover's corporate center provides employee guidance and training through bi-monthly best practice calls, Zero Harm Newsletters, posters and other visual
aids. These resources support month-long, targeted campaigns designed to assist operating companies with mitigating and controlling activities that pose a high risk to employee
safety.
Serious Incident and Fatality ("SIF") prevention: High-risk activities targeted by the Zero Harm Program’s commitments are
identified through our SIF prevention journey. During this process, site leadership teams pinpoint precursors to serious injuries or fatalities and implement sustainable
solutions to mitigate them, reducing risk.
Proactive EHS Risk Management:
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Job Safety Analysis Kaizen ("JSA Kaizen"): Designed to prevent work-related injuries and illnesses by identifying, prioritizing and eliminating EHS risks, the
JSA Kaizen program helps support our employees with the necessary training, equipment and supplies to do their jobs safely. In 2025, our teams performed over 100 JSA Kaizens
across sites. As part of the program, Dover has integrated two ergonomic assessment tools to identify and mitigate ergonomic risk factors. Ergonomic injuries and illnesses are
among the most prevalent incidents at our operating companies, so these programs bring us closer to a Zero Harm Workplace.
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0Dover Operational Excellence Model: Driving a uniform safety benchmark across our operating companies is a key means of improving our overall EHS maturity.
The 0Dover Operational Excellence Model establishes a minimum standard of expectations and processes throughout our subsidiaries to cement a common approach toward continuous
improvement and achieving excellence in safety. Dover's corporate center conducted 18 assessments in 2025.
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EHS Compliance Audit Program: Many hazards are not obvious, which makes identification important to prevention. Through the implementation of our Dover-wide
EHS Compliance Audit Program, we proactively evaluate and close compliance gaps before they cause harm. In 2025, Dover completed nine comprehensive global on‑site EHS Audits
with a finding closure rate of 88%.
Safety Excellence Awards: Annually, Dover recognizes the sites that demonstrate the Best and Most Improved EHS Programs for the
year prior. We recognize outstanding EHS performance at the site-level based on certain criteria, including Associate Leadership and Engagement, EHS Risk Management, EHS
Performance and the effective utilization of Dover EHS platforms. The award categories are divided into large sites (over 150 employees) and small sites (150 employees or fewer)
with winning facilities receiving a Dover EHS Excellence trophy and site celebration.
Values-Based Leadership ("VBL") Program: Effective oversight of EHS initiatives relies on appropriately trained leadership.
Dover’s Values-Based Leadership (VBL) program is designed to support EHS leaders by reinforcing the role leaders play in promoting, fostering and sustaining a compliant and safe
work environment. Through the program, leaders receive training on how to contribute to a positive safety culture, identify workplace hazards, implement countermeasures to
mitigate risk and manage incidents through appropriate reporting, escalation and investigation. These elements support consistent EHS leadership and risk management across
Dover’s operating companies.
Targets, Metrics and KPIs
Reflecting on our commitment to create a Zero Harm Workplace, we established a goal to reduce our Total Recordable Incident Rate ("TRIR") by 40% from a 2019 baseline by 2025. We
are pleased that as of the end of 2025, we have exceeded that goal, achieving a TRIR of 0.75 (a 41% reduction) and zero fatalities. This outcome is the direct result of
deliberate, enterprise-wide investment in proactive safety programs and a strengthened culture of risk prevention across our operating companies.
We remain committed to prioritizing health and safety compliance, risk mitigation and continuous process improvement across the organization. That is why we are introducing our
next generation of EHS goals—to continue the positive momentum for workplace safety into 2030. Building on our previous TRIR goal and performance, we plan to further reduce our
TRIR by 20% by 2030, using 2025 as the baseline. We complement our new TRIR reduction goal with two action-oriented goals, designed to drive the behaviors that lead to safer
outcomes and lower TRIR: 1) achieve 100% participation in a Dover-wide Behavior-Based Safety ("BBS") program by 2029 and 2) conduct structured, annual JSA Kaizens: one for small
sites and two for large sites.
Through this set of three new 2030 goals, we will continue supporting the workforce safety culture that our employees have helped cultivate over time.