Successful Safety Evolution

1. Successful Safety Evolution Brian Zoeller, MS, CSP Vice President of Safety and Security Neenah Enterprises Inc.

2. History • Neenah Foundry is a Division of Neenah Enterprises Inc. • Established in1872 • 900+ Employees • Union Facility • Municipal and Industrial Castings • Municipal • Manholes, Grating and Decorative castings • Industrial • Trucking, Agriculture, Construction

3. Safety Program History • Simple Reactive Safety Culture • Limited Staffing • 1 Safety Professional • Plant and Corporate responsibilities • 2 Nurses • 12 hour coverage • Limited upper management support • Safety program was secondary to plant operations and overall organizational strategy

4. Historic Safety Results

5. New Corporate Commitment • New management team started to be established in early 2011 • Understood the need for a corporate safety process • Decrease injuries • Engage workforce • Improve facilities • Decrease workers compensation cost • Build safety into daily tasks • Starting all meetings with safety • Holding Safety Dept. monthly calls • Recordable & Safety AIR meetings • KPI’s (JSA, Safety Walk requirements) • Adding committed resources

6. Neenah Foundry Safety Team • Safety Department • Shawn Sexauer, Senior Safety Engineer • Ryan Jakober, Safety Engineer • Lisa Klaver, Safety Administrator • Summer Interns • Health Services • Breanna Magley, RN - Supervisor • Kim Birr, RN • Ashley McKeown, RN • Larry Stark, LPN

7. Successful Safety Process Builders • Creative • Think outside the box • Open minded approach • Don’t listen to the CAVE men • Justified Work • Run controlled experiments • Understand basic business acumen • Work as a team

8. New Safety Process Approach • Proactive • Training • New hire orientation (4 hours – 2 days) • OSHA training • Job Safety Analysis (JSA) creation and training • Training Within Industry (TWI) • OSHA 10/30 hour courses • Fox Valley training courses • Safety Kaizen Events • Work hardening • Supervisor safety meetings • Focus teams (Ergo, Safety, Wellness) • Upgraded equipment • PPE development • Video creation

9. New Safety Process Approach • Reactive • Incident investigation • Safety blitz • Intervention programs • Safety hotline • Monitoring • RAIR/SAIR meetings • Formal hygiene sampling • Audits • Safety walks • Quarterly union plant walkthroughs

10. Ergonomic Evolution • Utilized continuous improvement tools to track injuries (Pareto charts) • Created stretching programs for specific job tasks • Implemented Work Hardening program • Implement Department Stretching program • Utilized onsite Physical Therapy • Created training programs • Implemented ergonomic audits • Created ergonomic committee • Implementing POPE

11. Ergonomic – Stretching Program

12. Ergonomics – Work Hardening • Work Hardening Program • Work Hardening Objectives • Decrease upper extremity soft tissue injuries in new hires • Decrease new hire turnover • Increase performance knowledge • Program Basis • Identified high and low impact tasks • Implement stretching • Eight week program that slowly increases the time and duration that the new employee is exposed to the job tasks • Acclimate employees bodies to stresses of job • Improve overall training program

13. Ergonomic – Training Program • Training Included • Definition of ergonomics • Description of musculoskeletal injury (MSI) • Tendonitis • Carpal tunnel • Shoulder strain/sprain • Back strain • Corrective actions • Quick wins • Capital projects

14. Ergonomics – POPE • Post Offer Pre-Employment • Screens new candidates for proper job fit • Detailed assessments ensure: • Employee body is safe to perform the job • Employee can handle the physical stresses of job • Employee still wants to do the job • Completed at NF Training Center • Equipment designed and built to mimic job functions • Conditions similar to working environment (noise, ambient air, PPE)

15. Ergonomics Circle of Health

16. Partnerships • External • Northeast Wisconsin Foundry Ergonomics Partnership (NEWFEP) • OSHA • Advanced Physical Therapy • Blankenheim • Internal • Safety Focus Teams • Ergonomics Committee • Wellness Team • Union Management Team

17. AIC – Safety Software • Internet based software program that can manage and maintain your health and safety program • Used for tracking • Injury and illnesses • JSA’s • Observations • Training • Near misses • Fires • Actively works with our insurance carrier to track claims • Ability to assign corrective actions to individuals, which in turn increases accountability

18. Safety Intervention • Primary goal is to improve an employee’s safety behavior • A tool to increase an employees safety awareness and improve their safe work practices • Employees that meet the criteria for intervention are: • Injured but no safety violation; and • Injured more than three times in a rolling twelve month period

19. Safety Blitz • An investigative team that is designed to assist the supervisor when investigating a serious incident • Assembled within 24 hours of the incident or sooner if needed • Supervisor leads the team with the assistance of safety • Union participation

20. Training Center • Area designed to conduct hands on training for employees • Used to give new employees the exposure of working on the floor and handling castings in a neutral environment • Confined space trainer • Hands on ergonomic training • Casting handling training • Will be used for POPE testing

21. Current Performance Currently at 1.5 million hours without a lost work day incident

22. Safety Awards • Wisconsin Safety Council • Wisconsin Corporate Safety Award • 2013 • American Foundry Society • Metalcasting Safe Year Award – 2013 • 2013 Millionaires Safety Award 3 million hours without incurring an occupational injury or illness that resulted in lost workday case

23. Historical Trend

24. Future State • Neenah Foundry and NEI are continuing to change our safety cultures and improve our safety process. • We are far from complete

25. Questions