Environment, Health and Safety

Our Commitment

Textron maintains the highest global Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) standards and drives continual performance improvement beginning with corporate leadership right through site level implementation throughout each of our businesses. Our efforts are guided by a talented group of EHS Professionals, supporting consistency and excellence across the enterprise.

The corporate EHS organization develops and maintains Textron EHS Policies and Standards, develops programs and strategies, and sets and tracks enterprise performance goals.  The EHS Council, which includes members of senior EHS staff, EHS leaders from each of Textron’s businesses, as well as operations managers from select locations, performs another important EHS leadership role. The Council sets direction for the enterprise through annual and 5-year objective setting by sharing information about corporate programs and best practices, and by providing valuable input to enterprise project teams.

Each business establishes specific performance goals to align with EHS Council and corporate objectives.

Safety

At Textron, we are committed to protecting our employees, contractors, visitors, and the communities in which we operate. We maintain safe workplaces, provide employee training, and comply with regulatory and internal standards.

Textron uses two metrics globally to measure safety performance. Total Recordable Injury Rate (TRIR) measures the number of injuries per 100 employees. Lost Time Injury Rate (LTIR) tracks the number of injuries per 100 employees with one day or more away from work.  In 2009, Textron achieved a TRIR of 1.39, the lowest since it began tracking injury rates. Further, 54 facilities completed the year without recording a single injury while 88 facilities did not experience a single lost work day due to work-related injury or illness.  Since 2005, our global injury rate has been reduced by 43 percent, and lost time cases have been reduced by 54 percent.

Environment

Textron continues to focus on “green” activities, following an enterprise-wide strategy adopted in 2007. The program, called “Vision 20/15” is helping to reduce the company’s adverse impact on the environment through activities such as improved energy efficiency and reductions in waste disposal and greenhouse gas emissions. Our goal is to reduce carbon emissions, energy consumption, and waste disposal by 20 percent by 2015..  Textron businesses have also adopted strategies to improve the efficiency and reduce the adverse environmental impact of its products and services.

In 2008, Textron executed the strategy by tracking consumption of energy and water, disposal of waste, and greenhouse gas emissions. Baseline data was used to the set goals under the Vision 20/15 program.

A team of professionals from around the enterprise meets regularly to share efficiency and reduction project successes to ensure that our businesses are making progress. This effort is supported by Textron’s EHS Management System, which includes requirements to develop greenhouse gas emission and waste reduction programs, consider the impact of products, and set specific goals and targets to measure progress.

2009 President’s Award

The President’s Awards are  given to manufacturing facilities with an average TRIR of .5 or less over the previous three years.  Awards are subject to validation and approval by the Division EHS Council member.  The 2009 award recipients are:

Bell Helicopter – Bell Aero	Bell Helicopter – Plant J
Kautex – Hengoed, UK	Kautex – Shanghai, China
Cessna Aircraft – TAM	Jacobsen – Charlotte, NC
Kautex – Changchun, China	Cessna Aircraft – Milwaukee Citation Service Center
Kautex – Japan

2009 Continuous Improvement Award

This award is presented to manufacturing facilities with the greatest percent improvement over the last two years.  The award is given to 5 manufacturing facilities with greater than 200 employees and 5 manufacturing facilities with less than 200 employees.  The 2009 recipients are for manufacturing with greater than 200 employees are:

Kautex – Mexico

Kautex – Leer, Germany

Kautex – Hengoed, UK

Bell Helicopter – Amarillo, TX

Textron Systems – TMLS – Slidell Manufacturing

The recipients of the Continuous Improvement Award for manufacturing facilities with less than 200 employees are:

Bell Helicopter – Plant J

Greenlee Textron – Vista, CA

Textron Systems Corporation – Maui, HI

Kautex – Windsor, Ontario

Greenlee Textron – Research Parkway Manufacturing

Employee Health and Wellness

Textron believes that a healthy workforce is more likely to be engaged, empowered, and successful. They are more productive, work safely, and tend to help others do the same.  An enterprise-wide working group is focused on achieving this mission by developing comprehensive measures of success, sharing best practices and coordinating the activities of our many health and wellness vendors.   

Textron’s businesses are building on the foundation of the enterprise-wide initiative by developing health and wellness programs for their employees and their families