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Our recognition
A look at Cummins’ achievements in the past year:
Environmental
Workplace, diversity, people
In 2012, Cummins was named a winner in the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Goal
Cummins was named one of the Top 50 Companies for Diversity by DiversityInc magazine
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achievement category of the inaugural Climate Leadership Awards for excellence
in industrial energy efficiency. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and
three other groups sponsored the awards to recognize corporate, organizational and
individual leadership in addressing climate change and reducing carbon emissions.
Cummins was named to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for the seventh
consecutive year in September 2011. The index represents the top 10 percent
for the sixth consecutive year in 2012. Cummins ranked 18th on the list, the same position
the Company held in 2011.
In 2012, Cummins received a perfect rating for a seventh consecutive year from the Human
Rights Campaign, the largest advocacy group for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender
employees. The group rated more than 800 employers as part of its 2012 Corporate
Equality Index. The index reviews companies on their LGBT policies, practices and more.
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of the world’s largest companies rated by Dow Jones across a range of economic,
environmental and social responsibility measures.
Cummins in 2011 was honored with the Company Driver Safety Award at the ninth Annual
Fleet Safety Forum Awards for Excellence in Staffordshire (U.K.) sponsored by Brake,
Cummins finished in the top third of the companies reviewed as part of
a road safety charity. Cummins was recognized for its efforts to create a global driver risk
Newsweek’s environmental rankings of the 500 largest U.S. companies in the fall
assessment, as well as for the monitoring and improvement program developed through
of 2011. The magazine partnered with two environmental research organizations
the Virtual Risk Manager application.
to review the environmental footprints of companies along with their policies and
transparency in reporting.
Cummins received an IHS SPECTRUM Excellence Award in 2011 in recognition of the
company’s superior use of advanced information technology to achieve environmental,
Governance, ethics and corporate responsibility
health and safety compliance and sustainability (EHS&S) business goals.
In 2012, Cummins was again named one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies
Cummins received an Honorable Mention C. Everett Koop National Health Award in 2011,
by the Ethisphere Institute. The institute evaluates companies’ commitment to
presented by The Health Project, a non-profit, private-public consortium chaired by the
ethical leadership, compliance practices and corporate responsibility. This was
former U.S. Surgeon General. The project honors organizations that have met rigorous
the fifth straight year that Ethisphere selected Cummins for this honor.
results criteria and documented improved health and decreased medical costs.
Corporate Responsibility magazine again named Cummins to its 2012 list of the
world’s 100 Best Corporate Citizens. It was the 12th time in the last 13 years that
the Company has been named to the list. Overall, Cummins was number 81.
Cummins China Investment Co., Limited won the Outstanding Corporate Citizen
Award in 2011 from the China Association of Social Workers for the fourth
consecutive time. The awards ceremony was held in the Great Hall of the People
in Beijing. Cummins was honored for undertaking corporate responsibility activities
while making great commercial achievements.
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