2010 Sustainability Report - Cummins.com

Employee relations:
Creating a safe working environment
Highlights
2009 one of the safest years ever at Cummins.
Several new initiatives keep safety top of mind
across the Company.
Cummins targets cell phone use while driving
to keep employees safe.
By aggressively identifying gaps and
developing strategies to close them,
Cummins was able to make 2009 one
of the Company’s safest years ever.
With an eye toward prevention, Cummins safety teams
across the globe worked together to standardize
safety processes, enhance employee involvement in
safety and eliminate hazards from the workplace.
Best practice safety projects were implemented in
Cummins facilities from Denver, Colorado to Wuxi,
China that contributed to overall safety gains in 2009,
which included:
A 40 percent drop in the Company’s Severity Lost
Work Day Rate representing a reduction of more
2,400 lost work days.
A 37 percent reduction in Major Incidents or
Dangerous Occurrences, from 84 such incidents
in 2008 to 53 in 2009.
Sixty-one Cummins sites ended 2009 with 12-month
rolling Severity Lost Work Day rates of zero. There
were no fatalities at any Cummins facility in 2009.
“Cummins has developed a system for managing
health and safety concerns globally,” said Michelle
Garner-Janna, Director of Corporate Safety and Health
at Cummins. “This system involves standard health
and safety goals, programs and metrics. Cummins
recognizes the uniqueness of each entity while applying
the same criterion for success across the Company.”
‘Red Flag’ program working
Cummins is able to identify and assess potential safety
hazards, set key objectives and monitor health and safety
performance in a uniform way across all facilities thanks
to Cummins Health and Safety Management System.
The system sets minimum expectations at Cummins
facilities for the lockout and tagout of equipment,
chemical safety, ergonomics, driver safety, emergency
preparedness and much more. The Company
incorporated Occupational Health and Safety
Assessment Series specifications into the
management system in late 2007.
One important part of the system is the “Red Flag”
program. Under this initiative, Cummins sites having
the worst safety performance metrics and highest risk
levels are identified as “Red Flag Sites.”
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