Safety Performance
Lockheed Martin's employee Safety & Health program is centered around one ultimate goal: achieving zero accidents and injuries.
When implemented in 2004, the “Target Zero” Safety & Health program set a goal of reducing accident and injury rates by 50 percent within five years. In the program’s first four years, Lockheed Martin has seen a 42 percent reduction in recordable accidents; a 33 percent reduction in the days-away case rate; and a 53 percent reduction in the severity rate.
Today, the Corporation continues to work ambitiously to reach its 50 percent reduction goal in 2008 as well as its zero reduction goal for the future. And it's receiving recognition for its efforts. Last year, for example, the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) recognized Lockheed Martin for overall excellence as part of the 2007 Worker Safety Awards.
ESH utilizes numerous tools for assessing risks, tracking injuries, and identifying root causes and corrective actions. One of the tools, the LM Standard Illness and Injury Tool, enables Lockheed Martin to determine where accidents are occurring, what kinds of accidents they are, what the person was doing at the time, and the type of injury that occurred. Using that information, the business can focus on specific problem areas and what needs to be done to address them.
Many of the tools that are utilized enable ESH to drill down to the detailed information that enhances an operation's corrective actions. Those tools include:
- Identifying leaders whose operations have the highest number of injuries, in order to specifically evaluate processes and procedures in that operation;
- Conducting safety Kaizen events that identify risks and implement corrective actions; and
- Utilizing mistake-proofing techniques to evaluate the root cause of an accident and the corrective action that must be taken.
“Everything we do is aimed at creating and maintaining a culture of excellence, one in which employees return home healthy and safe at the end of their work day,” says Ken Meashey, vice president, Energy, Environment, Safety & Health.
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