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UPS created the Comprehensive Health & Safety Process program in 1995 to improve the health and safety of its 327,000 U.S. employees. Today, more than 2,400 CHSP committees, staffed by 12,000 non-management employees, are improving workplace safety at the company’s 1,700 U.S. facilities.

“We know CHSP works,” said UPS Senior Vice President of Human Resources Lea Soupata. “It’s an innovative approach to worker safety that is successful because it asks our hourly union employees to improve their own safety environment. The real honor goes to our people for making this program effective.”

CHSP empowers frontline workers to improve their safety environment by teaching them to identify workplace hazards, determine the root causes of the hazards and to develop comprehensive strategies to avoid and prevent injuries. It gives them the responsibility, and authority, to make their work environment safer.

CHSP employee committees conduct facility and equipment audits, recommend work process changes, conduct safety compliance training and perform safety analysis to help develop action plans for the prevention of injuries and auto accidents.

“Safety at UPS is continuously improving because our people have taken ownership of workplace safety,” Soupata said.

UPS spends more than US$38 million a year to provide its employees with 1.3 million hours of safety training. There are 26 formal UPS safety training courses taught in over 1,700 facilities.

UPS also continually evaluates and tests new equipment and work systems that will improve the comfort and efficiency of employees by reducing fatigue and improving safety. According to Soupata, UPS engineers have made more than 40 individual design improvements to the company’s buildings, vehicles and equipment over the past five years to help make the physical job of moving 14.1 million packages a day more efficient and safer.

The Optimas Award is sponsored by Workforce Management magazine, a monthly business magazine for senior human resources executives as well as other leaders who make key decisions on people management issues in the 20,000 largest corporations in America. Each year Workforce Management awards the Optimas award to 10 outstanding organizations in the categories of Competitive Advantage, Financial Impact, Global Outlook, Innovation, Managing Change, Partnership, Ethics, Service, Vision and General Excellence. This year UPS is recognized along with companies like Wells Fargo Bank, Convergys, Sun Microsystems and Adolph Coors Co.

UPS is the world’s largest package delivery company and a global leader in supply chain services, offering an extensive range of options for synchronizing the movement of goods, information and funds. Headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., UPS serves more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. UPS’s stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange (UPS), and the company can be found on the Web at UPS.com.

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