Amazon and National Safety Council Create First-of-its-Kind Partnership to Solve the Most Common Workplace Injury in the U.S.
10 Junio 2021 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
The five-year partnership between Amazon and
NSC will work to invent new ways to prevent common musculoskeletal
injuries, like sprains and strains
Today Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and National Safety Council (NSC)
announced a five-year partnership to invent new ways to prevent the
largest category of workplace injuries in the U.S., musculoskeletal
disorders (MSDs). Amazon and NSC have been working together for
months on this first-of-its-kind collaboration.
“Through this partnership we’ll be able to solve problems that
people face every day so they can live their fullest lives,” said
Lorraine Martin, president and CEO of National Safety Council.
“Going to work should be a positive, rewarding, and safe
experience. We are grateful for the generous support of Amazon to
help companies around the world solve this important issue while
fueling our nonprofit mission to keep employees safe in the
workplace.”
"As a member of Amazon’s onsite safety team, my goal is to do
everything I can to keep my fellow employees healthy at work so we
all go home safe to our friends and families," said Chelsea Weimer,
an hourly employee at Amazon’s fulfillment center in Baltimore, MD.
"Amazon has a high standard for safety; this partnership is more
proof of that and I can't wait to see the work that's done to help
decrease MSDs."
The partnership will aim to prevent MSDs across a variety of
industries by engaging key stakeholders, conducting research,
inventing new technology and processes, and scaling the results.
The collaboration is made possible by Amazon’s $12 million
contribution, the largest corporate contribution in the history of
NSC, and will include five key components:
Advisory Council: Establishing an
international advisory council to bring together safety experts,
corporations, and researchers in public and private sectors. The
advisory council will work together to review the most promising
approaches to MSD prevention, shape the development of partnership
components, and engage external parties on MSD prevention.
Pioneering Research: Conducting
research utilizing next-generation artificial intelligence, natural
language processing, and machine learning tools to explore current
and future MSD innovations and trends. The research will be
available to all industries to explore and glean insights.
Small Business and University
Grants: Providing grants to small businesses, universities,
and university students. These grants will fund research and
innovation that help companies of all sizes achieve impact.
Innovation Challenge: Incubating
and fostering innovative and practical solutions to address MSDs
through Innovation Challenge competitions. These competitions will
bring together experts to collaborate, iterate, and share
techniques and ideas.
Industry Call to Action – The MSD
Pledge: Amazon and NSC will share solutions discovered
throughout the partnership to inspire change through the creation
of The MSD Pledge and a call on other companies to also join the
effort to:
- Track proactive indicators of injuries to ensure proper risk
mitigation and implement prevention strategies based on data.
- Implement an MSD prevention program that includes educating
employees and employers about injury prevention.
- Embrace and drive forward innovative solutions to prevent MSDs
and share best practices with other organizations worldwide.
The partnership kicks off in June during National Safety Month
and in its first year will focus on launching the advisory council,
identifying research partners, analyzing existing data, and
developing the grant and Innovation Challenge programs.
“Nothing is more important than the safety of our employees, and
this partnership will allow us to dive deep into the best way to
reduce MSDs,” said Heather MacDougall, Amazon’s vice president of
worldwide workplace health and safety. “National Safety Council has
a long history of advancing safe practices in the workplace, and we
look forward to working alongside them as well as many other
businesses, experts, and students around the world to innovate and
solve for this important issue.”
The NSC collaboration is another step in Amazon’s long-term
mission to be Earth’s Safest Place to Work, which includes an
investment of over $300 million into safety projects in 2021, and a
goal to cut its recordable incident rate by 50% by 2025. Every day,
Amazon works closely with health and safety experts, conducts
thousands of safety inspections inside every building, and actively
seeks employee feedback on how to improve their well-being at work.
To see inside Amazon’s workplace and learn more about its team and
technology, sign up for a fulfillment center tour at
www.amazon.com/FCtours.
National Safety Council is America’s leading nonprofit safety
advocate—and has been for over 100 years. As a mission-based
organization, it works to eliminate the leading causes of
preventable death and injury, focusing its efforts on the
workplace, roadway, and impairment. It creates a culture of safety
to keep people safer not only at work, but also beyond the
workplace.
To learn more about employee safety at Amazon, visit
www.amazon.com/employee-safety.
To learn more about the partnership, visit
www.nsc.org/amazonpartnership.
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