Sabert Corporation improves safety culture, reduces TRIR and claims after implementing HSI EHS solutions
Sabert Corporation chooses HSI EHS System for ease of use and complexity of applications.
Company: Sabert Corporation
Solution: EHSQ Incident, Claims and Hazard Management
Industry: Global manufacturer of food packaging products and solutions
Size: 2,300 Employees
Location: 5 Countries, Headquartered in New Jersey, USA
Manufacturing giant Sabert’s goal was to create a world-class safety program that matched their standing as a global leader in their industry. With HSI, they standardized their data collection process to create actionable tasks, lower their incidence of serious injuries, and build a strong and supportive safety culture. They needed to move away from email, Excel and Sharepoint, as well as streamline the process for collecting and analyzing near-miss and incidents to improve the safety culture and incident rate (TRIR).
Key Challenges:
- Disjointed process of taking notes on the floor, emailing, logging data to Excel, and storing data in Sharepoint
- Employees spent 30 minutes filling out a form for a simple safety observation, so many near misses weren’t being documented
- Lack of actionable data on which to make decisions
- Disparate systems and inefficient claims process for workers' compensation and injury claims
- Wanted to move from reactive to proactive safety culture
“We knew from past experience with other EHS vendors, changes had to be made by the vendor, and they were costly. With the HSI system, we can make our own changes, which not only saves time and money, but also allows us to make more incremental improvements to the system than we otherwise would.”
— Jeff Nelson, Global EHS Director, Sabert Corporation
Key Results:
- TRIR decreased to world-class levels because they had an easy-to-use system that allowed employees to log two to three times the amount of near misses and incident data
- All workers’ compensation and injury claims information is in one system, helping Sabert reduce their incurred workers’ compensation costs
- Sabert’s latest annual employee engagement survey showed their highest safety scores coming as a direct result from increased engagement
- Now non-safety leaders are taking responsibility for safety, with operations managers and directors speaking about their team safety performance
- Daily engagement from safety teams at each site leads to increased reporting, leading to more data, leading to more action items that help safety
Sabert found themselves in a reactive safety system. When an incident occurred, they were able to report it and work to resolve it. But they knew in order to move to that next level of world-class safety they had to become more proactive. Of course they wanted to track incidents, but they also needed to have near misses and hazard identification front and center. And they knew they needed to implement a standardized system across the organization to do it.
With HSI, Sabert has created safety objectives based on the data they are collecting. Within that data, Sabert can pinpoint specific areas that seem wider spread, identify the cause, and develop safety processes to address them.