Workplace Safety
Keeping our people safe and healthy
Ensuring that our 17,500 employees worldwide have a safe and healthy work environment is one of our highest priorities. Our Injury and Illness Prevention Plan (IIPP) provides a roadmap for how we manage health and safety. Key components of the IIPP are management involvement, training, safety audits, incident investigation and safety communications.
Our safety record in 2010
We suffered no work-related fatalities in 2010. We also reduced costs per claim by 58 percent over 2009. Our days-away rate, which measures lost time due to injury or illness, was 0.1 per 100 full-time employees—75 percent below the industry average. Read more about our health and safety programs here.
Total Injury and Incident Rate (per 100 full-time employees)
Total Lost Time Injury and Illness Average Rate (days)
Environmental health and safety
We strive to reduce our environmental footprint, prevent injury and maintain business continuity through a variety of training opportunities pertaining to environmental, health and safety (EHS). In 2010, a total of 2,610 hours of training were provided to 1,808 employees, or 11 percent of our employees worldwide, through 1,276 training sessions. Training topics included hazardous waste operations and emergency response, driver safety, new-hire EHS orientation, forklift operation, soldering safety and warehouse safety.
In 2010, a total of 2,610 hours of training were provided to 1,808 employees.
Our comprehensive ergonomics program includes one-on-one training and ergonomic assessments of work environments. The objective of the ergonomics program is early detection of musculoskeletal disorders and the prevention of workplace injuries. Our EHS team performed 1,039 ergonomic assessments in 2010.
Giving employees a say on safety
At our San Diego headquarters, we’ve created a safety committee composed of representatives from all 39 of our buildings there. Members accompany our EHS team during routine building safety inspections. They assist in evacuating buildings when necessary and attend monthly meetings to discuss health and safety issues.