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The survey results are the basis for the 2008 WSD Report, "Instilling aSafety Culture Across Continents: How Collaboration, Commitment andAccountability Help Organizations Achieve Measurable Results in WorkplaceSafety," which was issued by DuPont at the XVIII World Congress on Safety andHealth at Work here. The WSD was created by DuPont in 2005 to providecompanies with a framework to find common ground in identifying and improvingworkplace safety.
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Among the leading areas of progress reported by WSD signers:
-- Driving safety cultures across companies represents the greatest areaof improvement, but continues to be an ongoing challenge as organizationsstrive to keep safety top of mind;
-- Driving line management accountability for safety was next, indicatingthat companies are effecting a shift in their organizations, and:
-- Reducing occupational accidents and injuries remains the bottom linefocus of all safety programs.
"We are very pleased with the 2008 report and the survey results, inparticular, because they reinforce the growing focus of safety as a culturalpractice in companies around the world," said Mark P. Vergnano, group vicepresident -- DuPont Safety & Protection. "Safety is a practice that knows noboundaries, in language or country. It is inherent to DuPont and to a growinglist of companies. We will continue to strive to help others to betterprotect their employees, their customers and their communities."
DuPont is participating as a premier sponsor of the XVIII World Congresson Safety and Health at Work. The company's involvement includes:
-- Participating in the Safety and Health Summit, an exclusive gatheringof leaders representing labor, government, safety and health professionalassociations, and businesses;
-- Conducting a symposium on "Sharing Best Practices for a Safer andHealthier World";
-- Presenting a technical session on "Successful Safety and HealthManagement System in Enterprises";
-- Hosting a series of roundtable discussions on "Protecting Lives"; and
-- Joining other charter signers of the World Safety Declaration inpresenting a workplace safety report to Congress attendees.
Held every three years, the World Congress brings together severalthousand key leaders and influencers of workplace safety policy from industry,government and labor who present and discuss emerging safety research, trends,best practices and innovations in the workplace. Today's World Day for Safetyand Health at Work was established by the International Labour Organization in2003 to emphasize the prevention of illness and accidents at work.
In 2005, a cross-industry coalition of companies from around the worldpublicly pledged to advance workplace and home safety practices globally overa three-year period by signing the first-ever "World Safety Declaration:Global Industry Commitment to Workplace Safety." The declaration, unveiled atthe XVII World Congress of Safety and Health at Work in Orlando, Fla., inSept. 2005, called for participating companies "to effect real-world change toachieve an attainable goal of increased safety and injury reduction." One ofthe declaration's goals is to recognize that safety enhancements in workplacesand homes are achievable objectives that can be defined, evaluated andmeasured, despite the differences of geographies and environments around theworld. The companies also committed to reporting their progress, successesand challenges at this year's event in Korea.
Today, 48 organizations from 14 countries hav
