Employee Safety

One of our goals at Kellogg is best-in-class safety performance. Our yearly target for continuous improvement is a 15 percent reduction in on-the-job injuries, while our ultimate goal is zero injuries. Each sector of our business has safety improvement goals, and performance appraisals for plant managers and business unit leaders include an assessment of performance against these goals.

In 2009, our Total Recordable Injury Rate was 61 percent lower than the food industry average, and our Lost Time Injury Rate was 31 percent lower than the food industry average. Eight of our facilities in 2009 did not experience a recordable injury and 13 did not record any lost work day cases.

Three Kellogg facilities – two in the United States and one in India – have achieved more than three years without a recordable accident. Another five facilities – one in Australia and four in the U.S. – have gone more than three years without a lost-time incident. Among the latter is our distribution center in Omaha, Neb., which has gone more than eight years without a lost-time incident.