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Textron maintains the highest global Enivronment, Health and Safety (EHS) standards and drives continual performance improvement beginning with corporate leadership right through site level implementation. Our efforts are guided by a cutting edge internal EHS Management System and a talented group of EHS Professionals, supporting consistency and excellence across the enterprise.
The corporate EHS organization develops and maintains Textron EHS Policies and Standards, develops programs and strategies and sets and tracks enterprise performance goals. It is also responsible for the EHS Management System, which is implemented at various levels across the company to create a consistent approach for the implementation of common programs and data collection.
The EHS Council, which includes members of senior EHS staff, EHS leads from each of Textron’s businesses, as well as operations managers from select locations, performs another important EHS leadership role. The Council sets direction for the enterprise through annual and 5-year objective setting by sharing information about corporate programs and best practices, and by providing valuable input to enterprise project teams.
Each business, through the EHS Management System, establishes specific performance goals to align with EHS Council and corporate objectives.
At Textron, we are committed to protecting our employees, contractors, visitors and the communities in which we operate. We maintain safe workplaces, provide employee training, comply with regulatory and internal standards and require demonstration of this commitment through our EHS Management System.
At the core of our safety culture is “Safety starts with me,” a basic philosophy of personal accountability. Every employee, from our senior leadership team to our equipment technicians, is charged with taking personal responsibility for the safety of each other. In 2008, Textron launched a video campaign centered around this idea. With employees as the actors, the message was delivered in seven languages to employees around the globe. The drumbeat continues today through requirements of the EHS Management System.
In 2008, Textron defined a new Causal Analysis Model, called Human Performance Improvement in Incident Investigation (HPI3), that will provide a global, common process for conducting incident investigations, sharing best practices, and reducing organizational weaknesses that lead to poor EHS performance.
Textron uses two metrics globally to measure safety performance. Total Recordable Injury Rate (TRIR) measures the number of injuries per 100 employees. Lost Time Injury Rate (LTIR) tracks the number of injuries per 100 employees with one day or more away from work. In 2008, Textron achieved a TRIR of 1.56, the lowest since it began tracking injury rates. Further, 57 facilities completed the year without recording a single injury while another 95 facilities did not experience a single lost work day due to work-related injury or illness. Since 2003, our global injury rate has been reduced by 63 percent, and lost time cases have been reduced by 64 percent.
Textron continues to focus on “green” activities, following an enterprise-wide strategy adopted in 2007. The program, called “Vision 20/15” is helping to reduce the company’s adverse impact on the environment through activities such as improved energy efficiency and reductions in waste disposal and greenhouse gas emissions. Our goal is to reduce carbon emissions, energy consumption and waste disposal by 20 percent by 2015, normalized to revenue. Textron businesses have also adopted strategies to improve the efficiency and reduce the adverse environmental impact of its products and services.
In 2008, Textron executed the strategy by tracking consumption of energy and water, disposal of waste and greenhouse gas emissions. Baseline data was used to the set goals under the Vision 20/15 program.
A team of professionals from around the enterprise meet regularly to share efficiency and reduction project successes to ensure our businesses are making progress in reducing their impact on the environment. This effort is supported by the EHS Management System, which includes requirements to develop greenhouse gas emission and waste reduction programs, consider the impact of products and set specific goals and targets to measure progress.
Textron believes that a healthy workforce is more likely to be engaged, empowered and successful. They are more productive, work safely and tend to help others do the same. In 2008, we laid the groundwork for an enterprise-wide health and wellness initiative that will help develop a culture that empowers employees and their families to adopt and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Textron is committed to the health and safety of its employees, contractors, and communities. We will actively champion environmentally sound practices and safe behaviors. We will continuously improve our processes, require individual accountability, and demonstrate leadership to achieve an injury and illness free workplace, to eliminate adverse environmental impacts, and to contribute positively to the communities in which we operate.
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EHS Today recognized Textron with their 2008 America’s Safest Company Award |
For many years, Textron has implemented programs to improve safety performance in the workplace. Consistent safety performance is an important step in reaching premier status as an enterprise.
Textron Health and Safety Awards are given to those manufacturing facilities that have demonstrated the best performance in the company. These awards are presented in recognition of safety excellence and for providing an injury free work environment.
This award is presented to manufacturing facilities with an average Total Recordable Injury Rate (TRIR) of 0.5 or less over the previous three years. Awards are subject to validation and approval by the Division EHS Council member.
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Location |
Cessna |
Textron Aerospace Mexico, Chihuahua, Mexico |
Kautex |
Shanghai, China |
This award is presented to facilities with the greatest % improvement in TRIR over the last
two years. The award is given to 5 manufacturing facilities with greater than 200 employees,
5 manufacturing facilities with less than 200 employees, and one non-manufacturing facility.
Business Unit |
Location |
Bell Helicopter |
Plant J, Fort Worth, TX |
Cessna |
Textron Aerospace Mexico, Chihuahua, Mexico |
Cessna |
Columbus, GA |
Cessna |
Independence, Wichita, KS |
Greenlee |
Plant 1, Genoa, IL |
Kautex |
Bonn Duisdorf, Germany |
Kautex |
Hengoed, Wales |
Kautex |
Windsor, Ontario |
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We are committed to the health and safety of our employees, contractors, and communities. We will actively champion environmentally sound practices and safe behaviors. We will continuously improve our processes, require individual accountability and demonstrate leadership to achieve zero injuries and illnesses, eliminate adverse environmental impacts, and contribute positively to the communities in which we operate.
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Read Textron's 2008 Corporate Responsibility Report
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