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2018 CSR Report
Our Enterprise Safety Strategy and safety excellence vision are based on the following core principles:
Every accident is preventable, and our shared goal is zero accidents.
Leadership engagement coupled with individual employee responsibility drive our safety journey. A strong focus on continuous improvement, communicating progress and celebrating success.
Each division will have at least one safety committee consisting of both employees and management.
Clear safety messaging in the workplace and the sharing of best practices within and among divisions.
Continuously acquire and reinforce the skills necessary to improve safe work practices.
Prevent accidents by identifying and reporting hazards.
Implement a process to identify and eliminate hazards, including risk analysis, near-miss reporting, sharing best practices and implementing corrective action.
Ensure root cause identification and corrective action with a sense of urgency.
Use data to track and drive safety performance improvements.
Every ITW division will strive to meet or exceed all applicable regulatory obligations.
As an enterprise, we placed particular emphasis on Audits/Hazard Identification and Risk Prevention in 2018. This proactive approach resulted in identification and implementation of well over 100 specific health and safety improvement projects – clear evidence of the impact of our Enterprise Safety Strategy. These projects ranged from relatively simple hazard recognition initiatives to web-based safety training programs.
Through the ongoing implementation of the Enterprise Safety Strategy throughout all ITW divisions, we are pleased to report that we saw a 23 percent reduction in lost time accidents in our facilities from 2017 to 2018. This improvement demonstrates clear progress as we enhance our culture of safety and continue our journey to our goal of zero accidents. Also supporting our culture of safety is a review of safety performance and related safety topics at our annual global leadership meeting. This topic is a priority for ITW leaders, and details regarding our progress and continuous improvement actions are discussed.
Using the safety framework as a guide, our businesses can address their specific needs and unique risk profiles. In addition, we continue to evaluate our safety metrics to ensure we are tracking data that will assist in driving safety performance improvements.
12017 government safety inspections and 2017 government safety inspections’ resulting fines, as reported in our 2017 CSR report, have been updated in this report.