Date posted: 11/12/2009*

For the second consecutive year, Raytheon Missile Systems (RMS) received the Aerospace Industries Association’s (AIA) 2009 Worker Safety Excellence Award for its outstanding safety program in the Missile and Space Vehicles category.

In its submission, RMS focused on the active involvement of leadership.

“Leaders have been instrumental in being champions for safety,” said Hyte Johnson, RMS director of Environmental Health & Safety (EHS). “From our executive council, to our 38 building councils and numerous zone specialists, leadership and employees are involved in the effort from the top down.”

Walkabouts once again played a large part in RMS’ success. In 2008, leaders recorded nearly 29,000 walkabouts, where trained leaders observe employee behaviors and then discuss their health and safety observations.

Safety Conferences Help Share Best Practices
In addition, RMS employees routinely participate in many industry and professional safety associations. For the past 20 years, Raytheon Corporate EHS has sponsored an annual EHS Conference, attended by more than 200 EHS professionals. The event allows EHS to share best practices and provide continuing education.

Other AIA winners included Textron’s Bell Helicopter and Cessna Aircraft, which were given the AIA Worker Safety Award in the Aircraft Manufacturing category. Textron Systems Corporation also won the same award in the Aerospace Components categories.

The three category awards were based on low workplace-injury and illness-rates as well as positive safety program elements for each company’s U.S. operations.

AIA’s Blakey: Winners Set Bar of Excellence
AIA President and CEO Marion Blakey said the winning companies set the bar for excellence in aerospace industry safety. She also complimented AIA’s Environmental, Safety & Health (ES&H) Committee for sponsoring the awards, which received a record number of submissions this year.  

“These awards are an important tool to share best practices and recognize excellence,” Blakey said at a ceremony recognizing the winners during the fall meeting of the ES&H Committee in Arlington, Va. “We should be proud of these companies and their track record on worker safety.”

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