Commitment to Employees

To help keep employees safe, TRW relies on a program that integrates new learned behaviors of employees with active management involvement and ongoing evaluations of workplace conditions. TRW's commitment to excellence in safety practices and the ways in which safety excellence is integrated into the organization are described by our Chairman of the Board, President and CEO John C. Plant, Executive Vice President and COO Steven Lunn, Executive Vice President of Human Resources Neil Marchuk, and the Vice President of Health, Safety, and Environmental Thomas Koenig in our Safety Excellence video.

Safety Excellence

While TRW has made significant improvements over recent years to protect employees, it plans to drive safety performance to the next level through a focused initiative called Safety Excellence that looks at:

• strengthening the company's safety culture
• enabling greater employee involvement in ensuring one's own safety
• shifting emphasis of safety efforts from a content-oriented program to a more process and people-focused approach.

These values are being established through workshops and activities that began in 2007. This program will create a culture that places the safety of employees above all else and is an example of the type of sustainable effort at which TRW excels.

Behavior Based Safety

TRW’s Behavior Based Safety (BBS) program focuses on positive motivation for all levels of employees to change at-risk behaviors.

The program involves the process of identifying behaviors that have an impact on safety and also offers the opportunity for ongoing safety-related conversations between peers.

A safety conversation between two employees is the cornerstone of BBS, which emphasizes the role personal choices make in overall safety.
Employees are trained to identify at-risk behaviors by observing activities and then discuss how to avoid the at-risk behaviors and potential injuries. The Behavior Based Safety data shows continuous decrease of at-risk behaviors at the participating sites. Given these results, TRW has committed to bringing BBS training to additional sites. Ultimately, TRW hopes the entire organization will exhibit an increased awareness of the need for safe work practices. The company is driving this message home by encouraging all employees to take responsibility for decision making that helps keep them safe.