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We are honored to announce General Mills as the recipient of our 2024 Innovation Award for its entry, Changing the Safety Conversation Externally
General Mills has changed how it reports safety performance externally. Through its annual Global Responsibility Report (GRR), the company no longer publishes traditional metrics like OSHA and ASTM rates. Instead, it reports on proactive indicators such as Potential Serious Injury and Fatality (PSIF) and actions taken by leaders to improve controls before and after events. This approach focuses on current conditions rather than past results and introduces Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) principles to support serious injury and fatality prevention.
The transformation to PSIF as the primary KPI applies company-wide and improves psychological safety while strengthening General Mills as a learning organization. Employees from operations, leadership and reporting teams worked together to implement this approach. It has improved engagement between leaders and workers, helping identify hazards and needed controls. General Mills plans to add more leading indicators in future reports.
Material Removal Tool (MRT 3000)
Lockheed Martin developed the MRT 3000, a 3D-printed guide that attaches to a cordless router to remove excess material from parts, replacing hours of manual sanding.
The tool includes safety features such as a guard, indexing surfaces and a vacuum port for dust collection, reducing repetitive stress injuries and operator fatigue.
It cuts touch labor time by 91%, saves about $85,000 annually, and avoids $30,000 in quality-related costs, with payback in less than four days. The innovation improves ergonomics, reduces dust exposure and has been shared across the enterprise and at the Applied Ergonomics Conference.
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