Wellness

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PPG is committed to engaging our employees with wellness programs that foster a global culture of health.

2025 highlights

11

global wellness awards for innovative wellness program initiatives from PPG sites around the world.

86

sites recognized for high performance wellness programs and exhibiting PPG's culture of health

A healthy, engaged workforce is key to supporting our people and our purpose: We protect and beautify the world. At PPG, our wellness programs are designed to drive employee engagement through activities that underscore physical and mental wellness. This ultimately leads to healthy, stress-resilient employees with less injuries, less time off work, increased productivity and an improved sense of belonging.

Wellness program evolution

We are investing in building a global culture of health by enabling our employees and their families to prioritize mental and physical wellbeing through active participation in site-specific wellness programs.

PPG's wellness strategy is focused on addressing our four wellness absolutes - nutrition, exercise, health screenings and mindfulness/stress management. Promoting employee wellness fosters a highly engaged and productive workforce, driving operational excellence throughout the business.

Examples of wellness programs offered to employees include ergonomic stretching videos, women’s health discussion groups, sporting events at sites and family fun activities.

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Celebrating 2025 Wellness Award winners

PPG supports employee wellbeing across the company by building site-level programs that promote both mental and physical health. These wellness programs are aligned with the company's four wellness absolutes: nutrition, exercise, health screenings, and mindfulness and stress management.

PPG's Wellness Awards recognize sites that demonstrate a mature wellness program with a defined structure and strong employee engagement. More than 85 sites qualified for consideration in our Wellness Awards by maintaining an active wellness team throughout the year, completing programming in each quarter, covering at least three of the wellness absolutes, and achieving annual participation from at least 20% of employees at their facility.

Winners of 2025 Wellness Awards included a wide variety of programming that encourage PPG family engagement in activity, stress relief, nutrition and biological monitoring activities, such as:

Annual tracking of EHS data including ergonomic stretching, medical exams, and more.
Fun, engaging activities like a cake challenge, nature walk, picnic, physiotherapy, nutrition challenge, trying new musical instruments that employees and their families can participate in and track for prizes.

Recognizing mature, high-engagement programs encourages our employees to develop new initiatives and helps share successful ideas across our global network.

Global collaboration

As our wellness programs continue to expand and mature, we are focused on documenting lessons learned by site leaders and socializing success stories across PPG. Our internal wellness website serves as a vital hub for cross-site collaboration, allowing employees to share successful initiatives and resources.

Regional leaders help to bolster program engagement by participating in our Global Wellness Council, meeting with employees and site leaders in their regions, and tracking program development and adoption using our internal management system. To drive awareness and continuous improvement, our wellness team also publishes a quarterly newsletter focused on one of the four wellness absolutes.

Recognition and celebrating successful wellness initiatives

Our global wellness team is committed to helping each of our sites develop a culture of health. Recognizing that a successful wellness program requires significant planning, coordination and engagement across a variety of dimensions, the criteria for being recognized as a high-performance wellness program include:

An active site wellness team with at least two members, quarterly meetings and agendas.
A minimum of 20% overall site engagement in wellness initiatives throughout the year.
Quarterly wellness program initiatives that cover at least three PPG wellness absolutes.

In 2025, 86 of 150 sites met these criteria and qualified to submit applications for wellness awards. Wellness projects are judged based on a range of criteria including creativity, reach, repeatability across sites, benefits to employees and applicability across other EHS or HR benefits programs. From a pool of 102 wellness award applications, we recognized three winners from regions around the world. The grand prize was awarded to the Sumaré site for their yearlong EHS Championship wellness program.

Integration with existing systems

To strengthen awareness and engagement within PPG, we have integrated wellness programming into our environment, health and safety (EHS) management system - establishing PPG's culture of health as a fundamental component of site operations. Employee safety is a critical foundation of this approach, as people must feel safe at work before they can focus on other aspects of their wellbeing. Each site receives a score based on how effectively it implements programs that engage employees on wellness topics. These scores are incorporated into their EHS scorecards and regularly reviewed by management.

We continue to embed wellness objectives and resources into our HR benefits system. Through our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), employees around the globe have access to counseling, mental health and other health and wellness services. In 2025, we introduced an employee experience page within our EAP to make it easier for employees to access wellness resources, including contact information for mental health and other healthcare services in every country where PPG operates. Participation with the program continues to improve, with better distribution and communication of resources available. Our EAP utilization rate is now considered 'best in class' among manufacturing companies.

Looking ahead

PPG’s wellness program has evolved into a mature, high-quality initiative with demonstrated impact on employee wellbeing. As we look to 2026, we remain focused on strengthening program effectiveness and expanding adoption across our facilities.

For more detailed information about our ongoing approach to wellness, see the bottom of this web page.

Our approach to wellness

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This ultimately leads to healthy, stress-resilient employees with less injuries, less time off work, increased productivity and a feeling of belonging.

PPG's approach to wellness is based on four wellness absolutes - nutrition, exercise, health screenings and mindfulness/stress management - which research identifies as key to overall wellbeing. Our Wellness Culture of Health Program Strategy reflects the evolving structure and vision for our wellness programs, defines the roles and responsibilities of our wellness leaders, and articulates our strategy for addressing the four wellness absolutes.

Every wellness program and tool we offer addresses one or more of these four absolutes. Empowering people at each of our locations to determine the best wellness initiatives based on employee needs, sharing their successes globally and recognizing their achievements all support our culture of wellness.

Wellness tools

PPG's Wellness Culture of Health Catalog and strategy includes a collection of wellness programs offered at our sites around the world. The catalog, which features sections for each of the four wellness absolutes, allows our employees to share successful ideas and describe how best to implement them. Program examples include the hydration challenge (nutrition), ergonomic stretching sessions (exercise), know your numbers (health screenings) and massage therapy (mindfulness/stress management).

A critical component of wellness is mental health. PPG values work-life balance and aims to support our team members as they navigate their varied work and home responsibilities. To meet the evolving needs of our employees, we offer mental health initiatives, including our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) resources and wellbeing materials to support employees and their families. This program provides employees and their household members with access to confidential resources, including counseling and virtual talk therapy, designed to help with anxiety or depression, work-related stress, family or relationship concerns, childcare and elder care assistance, financial or legal issues, parenting concerns and more.

Wellness program key performance indicators

We define and review our wellness program goals through a combination of internal research and external partnerships. Recognizing that a successful program requires both continuous engagement and a variety of initiatives, our wellness goal focuses on helping each of our sites develop a mature wellness program. According to our internal guidance, a mature wellness program must include:

An active site wellness team with at least two members, quarterly meetings and agendas.
A minimum of 20% overall site engagement in wellness initiatives throughout the year.
Quarterly wellness program initiatives that cover at least three PPG wellness absolutes.

To drive engagement within PPG, wellness programming is integrated within our environment, health and safety (EHS) management system. Each of our sites receives a score based on how effective their programs is at generating employee engagement. These scores are incorporated into their EHS scorecards and are regularly reviewed by management.

Wellness program governance

The Global Wellness Council sets the overall strategy and tracks our progress against the above metrics globally. This team of employee volunteers meet at least quarterly to develop wellness resources for employees and their families, provide feedback on past programming, share leadership responsibilities and integrate wellness throughout the company.

Our manager of occupational health and wellness oversees the implementation of the company's global wellness programs. They work closely with our PPG Benefits and Total Rewards teams to create programming and raise awareness for initiatives aimed at improving the health and well-being of our employees.

PPG recognizes the importance of delivering wellness programs and services in a way that allows everyone at PPG to participate in our global culture of health. Each of our sites are encouraged to maintain a wellness committee, program and champion to communicate our wellness messages and implement the various global, regional and local programs. We also maintain a dedicated email address that offers support for wellness programs to any PPG employee.