SAFETY
DISTRIBUTION CENTER SAFETY Over the last several years our focus was on creating tools to improve safety, driving adoption of those tools, and in the last year or so, creating a culture where those tools are not only used, but where there is also a collective ownership by all distribution center team members of our safety program. A critical component of our program is leader-led coaching, which drives behavioral change and engagement with team members, resulting in a meaningful reduction in recordable incidents. In 2022, we built onto our strong safety record by reinvigorating our distribution center safety committees and rewriting policies, implementing action trackers and holding once-per- period meetings. Importantly, we tied near-miss reporting and behavior-based safety reporting to safety committee meetings to ensure there were clear takeaways. We also instituted monthly supply chain safety calls featuring a different general manager each month who created a theme focused on training and celebration. Finally, we ensured team members received frequent safety messages in shorter formats and on a weekly basis, to reinforce behaviors without taking time away from other responsibilities.
STORE SAFETY In our stores, we continued to leverage the success of our existing safety captain model to build our safety culture. That model utilizes high-performing district managers to influence their peers on topics related to safety, including training, inspections, coaching team members, and more. This year, we added a district-level safety captain program in roughly 50 districts where we were further prioritizing safety. High-performing general managers were selected to drive the district-level safety captain program and our goal is to expand to more districts in 2023. In addition, safety topics were consistently reinforced through a variety of communication channels, including leadership calls, store-level meetings and posting to store communication boards. Stores also were assigned weekly safety topics that every team member must implement. The result: 4,195 stores and branches had no recordable incidents, a 2% increase versus the prior year.
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