Your Role in Workplace Safety - See Something Unsafe? Say it!

This June marks the 24th National "Safety Production Month," with this year's theme being "Everyone Cares About Safety, Everyone Knows How to Respond — Identifying Safety Hazards Around Us."

On June 9th, Nanjing REC and NTC simultaneously held the "Safety Production Month" kick-off event, conducting concentrated safety publicity.

As Ford's R&D and testing base in China, Nanjing REC & NTC have continuously improved in safety, winning multiple Ford global and regional Presidential Safety Awards. However, safety management has no end; there is always room for improvement.

In response to the theme "Everyone Cares About Safety, Everyone Knows How to Respond — Identifying Safety Hazards Around Us," Ford China's Safety Production Month officially launched a QR code for reporting safety hazards this year.

With this QR code for reporting safety hazards, everyone can directly report observed safety risks around them at any time, to timely discover and eliminate potential safety loopholes, and create a healthy and safe working environment.

Actively participating employees and teams will accumulate points and receive certain rewards at the end of the year, encouraging everyone to become "scouts" for safety hazards and "supervisors" of safety work.

What Behaviors May Involve Safety Risks?

Walking while looking at your phone

In all Ford manufacturing plants, walking while looking at your phone will be stopped. From today on, "using a mobile phone while walking" will also be included in the scope of daily safety inspection management at Ford Nanjing REC and NTC.

Focusing on the phone screen prevents people from timely noticing changes in their surroundings, such as approaching vehicles or pedestrians. Even when walking on a sidewalk, you may encounter obstacles like steps or utility poles, easily leading to a misstep or bumping into something. Some colleagues even stare at their phones while going up and down stairs, which can easily lead to accidents.

Using high-power electrical appliances and battery power

Using private kitchen appliances and heating equipment in the workplace, such as health pots, heaters, etc., or bringing portable lithium battery power sources greater than 100Wh into the office for charging or storage, these devices significantly increase circuit load and may lead to fire accidents.

Speeding in campus & parking lots

The speed limit for public roads within Ford parks, including internal and external parking lots, is 20 km/h. There have been multiple minor collisions in parking lots due to excessive speed.

Additionally, setting microwave oven heating time too long, long-term storage of opened food in refrigerators, stacking items in front of fire exits, chargers working for extended periods, and plugging too many appliances into a power strip, etc., may all pose certain safety and health hazards.

Safety is never just an issue that safety personnel should be concerned about. Only with full employee attention and participation can hazards be discovered and handled in time to avoid accidents.