Corporate Safety Goal
Any of your workplaces have corporate based safety goals? How do you phrase them? Initial thought is to base it off of a number of safety observations reported. Of course, I want to have a low number of injuries but can't use that as a goal. What do you guys do?
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I like to focus on leading indicators, like number of Observations completed, on-time CAPA completions, Hazards reported etc
Back in my corporate days we sure did! They applied to all >250 locations in the US regardless of size, business, or inherit hazards. These were in place when I retired in October of 2017 (man that was awhile ago) and had been for the last several years:
Formal:
#1 OSHA Incident (Recordable Rate) <1.0 per 100 (Yes that was 1 per 100 employees. I had 400 employees and so WE had to have 3 or less Recordables per year, that was in a machine shop).
#2 Workers Comp Cost of <$.05 per Labor Hour (like most large corporations we were self-insured, (One MSD or other major injury would blow is out the water on this one!) We were NOT to dwell or emphasize this one to hourly employees! Although it was important to us as managers and supervisors!
#3 Required comprehensive A3 investigation on every OSHA Recordable. Expected 100% Compliance regardless of severity or type of injury! Report to Division management of initial determination of root cause, and interim action taken to ensure safety of all employees. Weekly progress reports on A3 progress.
#4 Notification via phone to Corp EHS of any Amputation, Hospital Stay, other significant or major injury within 8 hours of occurrence. Fatality immediately. OSHA CHSO visit as soon as practical! In HR on all these we had to ensure Div, Group, and Corp HR VPs were informed as soon as practical! Plant Manager was to notify the OPS command.
#4 Compliance with "Zero-Injury Philosophy", complimenting "Zero Defects Philosophy". Along with this was seeing EHS management in terms of process! Every injury or H&S deficiency was seen as a failure of our process FIRST!
#5 Required if an employee is at or on a Hospital a salary exempt representative of the company MUST be there too.
#6 Were just beginning on Leading Indicators. I know one is now ACTIVE employee participation on safety teams. I do not know current % rate, but when I left it was unofficially 60%. Remembering our culture I am sure it is approaching 100%.