Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc. (HTSI) has achieved and maintains an outstanding record for protecting our employees and customers from workplace hazards. With our background of managing over 200 diverse active service contracts at more than 121 locations worldwide, we have successfully integrated our Safety programs and best practices into those of our new and existing customers. We take great pride in our success in assuring the Safety and well being of our 4000+ employees who are the keys to insuring high levels of customer satisfaction.
In 1993 AlliedSignal (now Honeywell) embarked on a quest to achieve "World Class" Safety performance. Our efforts resulted in a major reduction in lost workdays due to on-the-job accidents. The objective of this practical presentation is to explain and provide the building blocks necessary to help any industry move towards "World Class" Safety performance.
It is Honeywell's policy and philosophy to take every reasonable precaution to protect the health and Safety of our employees, our customers and the public. To continuously improve our support to our customers, preserve and protect the environment, ensure mission success and prevent events that may cause damage to equipment and resources. This presentation designed for the ASSE PDC is part of our current outreach efforts to assist general industry in providing a safer workplace. You don't always have to reinvent the wheel; we will give you our spare! It works!
In 1991 our corporation, a small subsidiary of AlliedSignal (now Honeywell) recorded 95 cases where employees who where injured on-the-job could not return to work the day following their accident (Lost Workday Cases). Our insurance carrier at the time provided little assistance to reduce this number. They where paid a fee on each case handled by their personnel and received additional funds when cases required more attention. We had over 5,000 employees, almost 150 locations and were growing the business. We were not alone; other divisions within AlliedSignal had similar or worse Safety records and also needed something to facilitate a major change within the total corporate mindset when it came to Safety. At that time AlliedSignal was mainly compliance based and re-active not pro-active when it came to Safety.
That change came in the fall of 1992 when AlliedSignal benchmarked and then adopted a process used by the Dupont Corporation. The "Safety Excellence Program" was born and the programs that followed empowered both leaders and workers to work safer and continuously improve their Safety related processes. In time, through the increasing involvement of Safety as a "Best Practice", we joined other firms who could claim they provide and maintain a "World Class" Safety performance level (Exhibit 1.).
