Cummins Inc. 2007 Sustainability Report

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Our goal is to make Cummins a best-in-class company when it comes to safety. Safety By many measures, Cummins does a good job of providing clean, safe and healthy workplaces for its employees. For example, the company-wide incidence rate in 2007 was 1.5 – better than the target of 2.0 and significantly better than our industry average. We had 30 sites go the entire year without a single reportable incident. Likewise, a severity rate of 0.56 was below the target of 1.0, while lost work days rate was just a bit above target. These are positive signs that Cummins takes this issue seriously and is doing many of the right things. Still, we had too many major safety incidents in 2007 – including two deaths and a serious injury late in the year. Even a single major safety incident is one too many, and obviously a work-related death in our facilities is simply intolerable. The majority of those incidents can be directly traced to a lack of standard 72 Cummins Inc. 2007 Sustainability Report Providing a Safe Working Environment operating procedures in facilities or failure to enforce safety procedures, followed by workers being injured as a result of poor quality equipment. The most severe injuries have occurred when workers were performing non-routine work on manufacturing equipment without first following the necessary Lock Out, Tag Out procedures. Additionally, analysis has shown that contract workers in our facilities are less informed and less trained on our safety practices, resulting in a greater risk of injury to those workers. In addition to some specific actions aimed at improving safety in our China facilities, which suffered two fatalities late in 2007, Cummins will be implementing a number of actions and process changes across the Company. These changes are aimed at better educating our employees on key safety practices, identifying and implementing best
practices and uncovering gaps in our safety efforts – and then closing them as quickly as possible. They include: • Implementing standard Lock Out, Tag Out procedures worldwide • Improving safety training for contract workers • Improving materials handling practices • Implementing a leadership safety and awareness and accountability program • Implementing a driver safety program In addition, we will strengthen our reporting and auditing processes around safety, provide clearer safety policies at our JV operations and recommit to our zero tolerance policy for safety violations. As part of this effort, we also are tightening our safety targets companywide. The new targets will be: Incidence rate – 1.0 (vs. 1.5 in 2007); Severity case rate – 0.5 (vs. 1.0); Severity lost work days rate – 6.0 (vs. 8.0). Our goal is to make Cummins a best-in-class company when it comes to safety. Corporate Health, Safety and Environment Council The Corporate Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) Council was established in 2003 and continues to strengthen today. The HSE Council brings together manufacturing, safety and environmental leaders from across the Company’s business units, along with the corporate HSE staff and General Counsel. The HSE council meets quarterly to recommend and implement HSE policies and strategic initiatives. Safety 73
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