Health and Safety

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Health & Safety

  • Performance

    Learn about Corning's safety and health performance and incident rates.
  • Policy

    Corning’s vision is for every employee to enjoy a career free from injury and illness.
  • Management System

    The purpose of a safety and health management system is to provide a framework for managing the prevention of work-related injury and illness.

Safety Strategy

 

Corning's safety strategy consists of four inter-related elements:

Demonstrate Compliance with Standards & Regulations

 

  • Conduct safety management systems assessment
  • Standardize incident reporting
  • Conduct rigorous investigation and root cause analysis
  • Drive corrective actions to closure
  • Deploy competent subject-matter-experts 

 

 

 

 

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Identify, Anticipate, Eliminate High Risk, High Frequency

 

  • Conduct risk assessment and management
  • Utilize Serious Injury and Fatality (SIF) prevention approach
  • Communicate key learning to interested parties
  • Use leading and lagging indicators
  • Manage  occupational health & process safety

 

 

 

Develop Interdependent Culture

 

  • Expand leadership commitment, communication and involvement
  • Implement a measureable employee involvement process
  • Conduct safety-focused training
  • Conduct culture assessment and act on findings

 

 

 

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Identify, Communicate, Implement Leading Practices

 

  • Identify and communicate key learning and leading practices
  • Include leading practice  implementation as part of annual plan
  • Design for safety
  • Pro-actively manage contractors