'At-a-boy for me!

I'm so excited about this! Our number one order of business at Ryder is safety - or more so, safety expenses. Inheriting a location with a multitude of historical shortcomings (injuries and collisions to name a few), I set out to create a good safety culture here and more importantly, shave off the costs associated with safety incidents.

I created posters like the one shown here with pictures I collected of our employees families. As luck would have it, one of the safety big-wigs noticed them during a visit and viola, I'm getting some serious 'at-a-boys!

Following is from a feature page on Ryder.com. This is a pretty big deal considering Ryder is an international company!

Oh, and another thing I'm pretty jazzed about is that Ryder was just voted #1 in the world in third-party logistics (which is the division I work in). Oh, happy day!


Safety Best Practice Features
Family Posters Drive Safety Home

Mandy Rivers, Location Manager at Ryder's Bellsouth (AT&T) account in Columbia, South Carolina, knows that safety awareness should be emphasized on a daily basis. It is important that all Supply Chain Solutions employees understand the importance of returning home to their families each day in the same condition in which they left. Ryder and its customers all depend on employees to do their job safely, but most important of all, their families depend on them.

To drive this message home, Mandy used posters with family photos to remind all employees about who is depending on them the most to perform their job in a safe manner. The posters feature actual pictures of employees' children and grandchildren with various safety messages. Employees see their loved ones' pictures before they begin their run or perform various warehouse duties. Posters like these can be displayed in the driver dispatch area and/or employee time card area (any visible place). This is a great way of going the extra mile in "driving safety home" to all employees.

Here's the link: http://www.ryder.com/employees_safetyzone_bestpractice.shtml