Mission and Strategic Focus
Natural resources, energy, climate, social issues and economic pressures are often closely interconnected. These global challenges are an integral part of our mission, driving innovations that protect employees, save lives, increase efficiencies, reduce costs and minimize environmental impacts.
We are committed to facing these complex challenges head on, promoting innovation and responsible growth while contributing to a more sustainable future for our employees, communities and shareholders.
By integrating environment, safety and health (ESH) considerations into our operations and business practices, we create value by decreasing business risks and identifying opportunities while increasing the productivity, efficiency and quality of our employees’ work environment.
In keeping with key objectives to protect, enhance, optimize, and simplify, our strategic focus areas guide our actions to ensure effective execution of our ESH mission.
Environment, Safety and Health (ESH) Policy and Governance
Lockheed Martin is committed to providing a safe and healthful working environment by minimizing hazards, reducing ESH risks, and preventing occupational injuries and illnesses while fostering, to the extent practicable, a working environment that collectively promotes well-being and the capacity to perform.
Our ESH policy applies to all Lockheed Martin operations and outlines responsibilities for its successful implementation across the Corporation. Lockheed Martin’s ESH policy provides key processes and integration methods for managing the ESH aspects of our business, and through it, Lockheed Martin is committed to operate in a manner that:
- Complies with all ESH laws, regulations, and additional legal and other ESH requirements applicable to its operations, services, and products.
- Provides a safe and healthful working environment by eliminating hazards and reducing risks in its workplaces.
- Operates in a manner that protects the environment, conserves natural resources, prevents pollution, and reduces and actively manages associated risks.
- Manages our ESH programs using an established ESH management system, including leadership engagement and employee participation, and regularly reviews for continual improvement opportunities to enhance ESH performance.
- Considers the ESH interests of our stakeholders including employees, contractors, customers, and the general public.
- Facilitates ESH training and awareness programs, encouraging reporting of ESH incidents and concerns and recognizing positive conditions and behaviors.
Consistent with the commitments and requirements identified in our ESH policy, Lockheed Martin has procedures that establish an ESH management system to continually improve ESH performance, fulfill legal and other requirements, and achieve our ESH objectives.
ESH Management System (ESHMS)
Governance
Lockheed Martin’s ESH management system is a systematic approach to the identification and mitigation of the risks or hazards of, as well as the realization of the opportunities provided by, the ESH aspects of our operations, products, and services. This ESH management system, which covers all of Lockheed Martin’s operations, is our foundation – driving regulatory compliance with an emphasis on continual improvement across the Corporation. Lockheed Martin’s ESH management system, through its enterprise or central function, is certified to the internationally recognized ISO 14001 and 45001 standards for environmental and occupational safety and health management, respectively. In addition to Lockheed Martin’s enterprise ESH management system, several of its individual operating sites have achieved certification to ISO 14001 or ISO 45001 or both standards. A complete list of the individual sites that are managed by the enterprise-level certification can be found here. The list contains the scope statement for each site.
Lockheed Martin also focuses on the integration of ESH into sustainable business operations, including but not limited to product design, services, procurement, supplier selection, manufacturing, and property upgrades renovations, and rearrangement. Lockheed Martin ESH programs provide access to ESH resources, including technology, best practices, lessons learned, and detailed legal requirements of countries in which Lockheed Martin operates, including resources relevant to emerging legislative and regulatory requirements and industry trends.
Lockheed Martin’s Chemical Sustainability Program is one example of how the Corporation addresses global emerging regulatory issues. Lockheed Martin consistently seeks opportunities to reduce and eliminate hazardous chemicals in our products and operations. Lockheed Martin collaborates with industry partners, such as the International Aerospace Environmental Group, to develop industry-wide solutions and common standards for working with the global supply chain on chemical regulations and other environmental issues.
Safety and Health
The Lockheed Martin Safety and Health program goes beyond compliance to optimize Lockheed Martin operations through targeted safety, health and wellness opportunities designed to ensure safe work conditions, a healthy work environment, promote workforce resiliency and enhance business value. We make a difference, together with our stakeholders to integrate, enable and instill core safety and health competencies for workplace design, work practices and for workers to ensure successful implementation of the corporation’s mission.
Target Zero
Since its initiation in 2004, the Lockheed Martin Target Zero program focuses employees and leaders in the direction of injury prevention to protect our most important asset: our people. Together Lockheed Martin finds a way to ensure a safe and healthy workforce and workplace through ergonomic and operational design, protective work practices, worker resilience, and targeted safety and health risk reduction techniques. Our approach to drive improvement encompasses education, leader accountability, and employee engagement through a variety of safety and health programs and initiatives. The safety and health of every employee is paramount to our success as a business and is a strategic imperative for Lockheed Martin.
Leadership Involvement and Employee Engagement
- Lockheed Martin drives leadership accountability and commitment to empower a safe and productive workforce. Leaders are encouraged to take proactive actions to engage with employees on safety, health and resilience, such as talking openly about safety and health strategies, facilitating open dialogues and Q&A sessions and being present and visible in teamwork environments.
- Target Zero Structured Improvement Activity (TZ SIA) is a global ESH risk reduction continuous improvement event for Lockheed Martin. Through collaboration with our business areas, the TZ SIA events empower teams to identify and mitigate workplace hazards and design/process inefficiencies through education, exploration and practical application, while concurrently driving workforce engagement, accountability and personal resilience.
- Lockheed Martin facilitates the internally conducted Ergo Cup competition each year to encourage employees to share and be recognized for their innovative solutions to address ergonomic injury risk in the workplace while enhancing business deliverables. Employees across the corporation participate in the competition by voting for their favorite submissions.
Meeting Safety Moments
Meeting Safety Moments promote awareness, drive safety culture and help prevent incidents by delivering messages during team meetings and huddles. Through Meeting Safety Moments, safety messages are shared and discussed increasing awareness and creating an opportunity to drive safety in timely manner in our dynamic work environments.
Safety Moment videos deliver employee testimonials and conversational stories through entertaining educational videos driving injury prevention awareness so that employees learn techniques to Zero in on Safety.
Global Medical Services
Wellness Centers
On-site employee medical services are essential to the unique operations at some of our locations. Lockheed Martin operates 26 Wellness Centers at 23 of our sites, providing occupational and non-occupational physical and emotional wellness support services to site employees. In 2025, there were nearly 95,000 employee visits across all sites, representing an 8% increase from last year.
We also offer health assessments for our employees both in and outside the U.S. A health assessment is a preventive health check that uses medical and non-invasive tests to give a current health and well-being overview. As part of these assessments, our employees benefit from ongoing health and well-being support to help them achieve their long-term health and fitness goals.
Lockheed Martin offers a flu vaccination program that delivers the vaccine to employees on-site; just over 7,300 U.S. employees participated in the program in 2025. More than 1,200 automated external defibrillator (AED) devices are also available and managed at over 200 Lockheed Martin sites in the U.S.
Providing Education and Outreach
Keeping our employees and leadership up to date on the most recent health information is key to effective personal and professional decision-making. Both our Benefits and Global Medical Services teams provide programs and resources including focused presentations on topics such as mental health, emotional well-being and weight management. Learn more.
Go Green
Launched in 2008, Lockheed Martin’s Go Green program is our company-wide commitment to environmental stewardship. Complementing our Target Zero program for safety, our Go Green program drives our focus on environmental programs beyond compliance, ensuring our business practices and facility processes reduce environmental and operational risk and costs. Through this program, Lockheed Martin demonstrates that operational excellence and environmental responsibility go hand-in-hand
We aim to lessen our environmental impact by integrating energy ‑efficiency in our operations, incorporating renewable energy technologies, and promoting responsible resource management across our facilities and supply chain. Through our Go Green program we drive measurable improvements in waste reduction, greenhouse gas reduction, and promote resilient design.
Energy
For decades, our energy and facilities team have been chartered to seek actions to reduce energy use, cut carbon emissions and boost renewable energy use. Through focused engineering assessments, the teams identify and prioritize projects and utilize their findings to develop annual tactical plans and an iterative strategic plan with a three-year outlook, against which actual progress is measured and compared. Our Go Green program drives these operational improvements, investing in capital and operational projects that enhance resource efficiency with an emphasis on operational cost reduction. Learn more.
Hazardous Waste Management
Lockheed Martin has a robust process for the management and disposal of hazardous waste generated by our operations. Our Waste Disposal and Recycling internal corporate procedure, which applies to all Lockheed Martin operations, describes the minimum requirements for hazardous waste generation, storage, transportation and disposal. This procedure is implemented to protect the environment, ensure regulatory compliance and minimize risk. All Lockheed Martin operations are required to use hazardous waste transporters and disposal facilities that have undergone rigorous assessments and are approved by the Environment, Safety, Health and Sustainability team. These assessments look at factors such as hazardous waste disposal facility operations, design and environmental controls, permitting and regulatory compliance, management systems, financial and insurance data, and transportation and safety metrics. Approved hazardous waste transporters and disposal facilities are regularly reassessed.
Through our enterprise Chemical Management Services program we work to align chemical replenishment processes with consumption rates as opposed to schedule-based reordering. Consumption-based replenishment enables us to maximize the use of chemical supplies before the end of their shelf life, significantly reducing disposal of expired unused chemicals. We also leverage our Chemical Management Services program to enable identification and distribution of common inventories across multiple areas or locations. These strategies reduce the amount of excess and waste chemicals that are generated at our sites.
With heritage operations dating back to the early 20th century, Lockheed Martin has built its success on long-standing innovation and business excellence as well as strategic acquisitions. Some of our operations conducted over the years, although compliant with relevant laws at the time, resulted in soil or groundwater contamination. Where remedial actions are warranted, Lockheed Martin works collaboratively with regulatory agencies and the communities to remedy the effect of the contamination.
Environmental Remediation
With heritage operations dating back to the early 20th century, Lockheed Martin has built its success on long-standing innovation and business excellence as well as strategic acquisitions. Some of our operations conducted over the years, although compliant with relevant laws at the time, resulted in soil or groundwater contamination. Where remedial actions are warranted, Lockheed Martin works collaboratively with regulatory agencies and the communities to remedy the effect of the contamination.