IMG Teams Earn Global and Regional Recognition at the 2025 President’s Health and Safety Awards

We are incredibly proud to celebrate our amazing teams and colleagues who have taken home top honors this year from the 2025 President’s Health and Safety Awards!

From pioneering digital safety solutions and driving high-impact engagement, to maintaining perfect safety records and executing life-saving emergency responses, these awards highlight the dedication of our people across the International Markets Group (IMG).

Here is a closer look at our outstanding global and regional winners:

Global Award Winner (Innovation Category): IMG VME - Final Assembly Team

The IMG VME - Final Assembly Team won the Global Award for their groundbreaking project, “Transforming VME Shutdown Project Safety with Real-Time Digital Platform.”

This project represents a major culture shift in how safety is managed, monitored, and governed during critical shutdown periods. By leveraging a real-time digital platform to drive transparency and accountability, the team achieved outstanding results:

• Zero recordable injuries across the entire shutdown
• 66% reduction in Unsafe Actions & Conditions compared to previous cycles
• 100% Real-Time visibility for everyone, everywhere

Congratulations to project leader Rungrot (Mark) Siripornpermsak and his supporting teammates for this incredible achievement!

Global Award Winner (Recognition & Engagement Category): the IMG Safety team

Also achieving global recognition is Wasikant Chainit from the IMG Safety team for her project, “Safety Influencer: Amplifying Safety Through Peer-to-Peer Engagement.”

Through this initiative, Wasikant successfully inspired and encouraged employees across all IMG plants to share safety tips on social media. By leveraging peer-to-peer engagement, she has helped foster a highly collaborative, active, and vocal safety culture across our entire region.

Health & Safety Leadership Award Winners

Ockert Berry, Director of Manufacturing (Silverton Assembly Plant)

Ockert has been recognized as an outstanding individual leader who has made a significant, lasting impact on our company’s health and safety performance, fostering a deeply rooted safety culture within our operations.

Health & Safety Professional of the Year Winners

Prabakar S (GTBC, Chennai)

Prabakar, Regional Safety Manager –India & South Africa, has been named Health & Safety Professional of the Year, recognized for his outstanding achievements and dedication to the field of occupational health and safety.

Regional Award Winners

Our regional winners demonstrated how creative thinking and practical engineering can solve daily safety and health challenges on the ground:

Safety Innovation category:

o   Photo Electric Sensors Forklift (Silverton)

o   Shutdown Project Safety Dashboard - Real-time Single Source of Truth (VME)

Recognition & Engagement category:

o   Driving Food Safety Culture Through Employee Engagement (GTBC, Chennai)

Ergonomics Innovation category:

o   Battery Power vs Human Power: A Reduction in Ergonomics and Time (Ford Thailand Manufacturing) 

o   Reducing Ergonomics Risks and MSDs Through Virtual Simulation & Process Redesign (GVPE)

Recognition & Engagement category:

o   Driving Food Safety Culture Through Employee Engagement (GTBC (Chennai)

Excellence in Health category:

o   Healthy Together: Virtual Run Challenge (AutoAlliance Thailand - AAT)

Excellence in Industrial Hygiene category:

o   Engineering Noise Reduction Solution for Central Coolant System (Struandale Engine)

Best-In-Ford Metrics Award: LTCR 2023 – 2025

This prestigious award is presented to the facilities within each region that achieved the lowest Lost Time Case Rate (LTCR) over three consecutive years. We are proud to share that the following IMG facilities achieved a perfect 0.00 LTCR from 2023 to 2025:

• AutoAlliance Thailand AAT (0.00)
• Chennai Assembly Plant (0.00)
• Chennai Engine Plant (0.00)
• FCSD Broadmeadows (0.00)
• FCSD Silverton (0.00)
• Ford GTBC, Chennai (0.00)
• Ford Thailand Manufacturing (0.00)
• Geelong R&D Center (0.00)
• NSC (Australia) (0.00)
• NSC (New Zealand) (0.00)
• PD Silverton (0.00)
• Sanand Engine (0.00)
• Struandale Engine (0.00)

Life Saving Award

Nothing is more important than the health and well-being of our Ford family. We honor the quick thinking, training, and actions of our medical and emergency response teams who made a significant contribution this past year:

1.     Ford Thailand Manufacturing (FTM)

 A Nurse and the ERT responded to an employee experiencing a severe allergic reaction. They provided transport, which led to the employees’ successful stabilization.

2.     AutoAlliance Thailand (AAT)

A medical team quickly assessed an employee with stroke-like symptoms, provided initial care, and facilitated hospital transfer which prevented long-term

consequences.

3.     AutoAlliance Thailand (AAT)

The medical team and ERT responded to an employee suffering from severe hypoglycemia. Providing immediate on-site care and facilitating a rapid hospital transfer ensured the employee received successful, life-saving treatment.

Thank you to all of our global and regional winners, nominees, and safety heroes for keeping safety at the heart of everything we do. Your leadership and dedication ensure that we all go home safely at the end of every shift!