At Dover, our employees are our most valuable asset. Our 2025 health and safety goal supports our ambition to drive continuous improvement in employee wellbeing. We believe that a healthy and safe workforce is an engaged workforce that is ready and able to contribute by making quality products for our customers, engaging in collaboration, and driving innovation.
Safety performance at our facilities starts with strong leadership and is driven by our safety-first culture and our continuous improvement mindset. With the support of our corporate center in developing integrated health and safety policies, strategies and best practices, safety performance has historically been measured and managed primarily at the individual operating company level. Operating company leaders regularly examine safety performance, including assessing root causes of recordable injuries, and promote leading safety actions. In addition, each of our facilities has a designated safety champion who works closely with the facility general manager to promote safe work practices and analyze safety incidents to prevent them from recurring.
Progress against our Goal
Reflecting our commitment to continuous improvement, we have established a goal to reduce our Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) by 40% by 2025. We measure TRIR at each of our facilities, which enables us to identify hazards that may be present at our facilities and to measure the effectiveness of our safety activities. We also track leading indicators such as training compliance, action item closure and behavior-based observations. These are valuable to drive change and are essential to deliver on our commitment with respect to safety in our operations.
In 2021, we reduced our TRIR to 0.98, a 26% reduction from our 2019 baseline, and we had no fatalities. Operating safely is a shared commitment, and we are grateful to our employees for their engagement in this important mission. Our success in reducing TRIR and improving health and safety is aided by a number of initiatives and attributes across our facilities, such as: