Our Employees
Health and Safety
Overview
Hasbro is committed to providing a safe, healthy and productive work environment. As a values-based company, safety is integral to our culture, and we deeply value the well-being of every employee.
Our key safety message to employees is that no job is so important that we cannot take the time to complete it safely. Hasbro’s strong workplace safety record reflects this approach. Every accident should be preventable, and our ultimate goal is zero injuries in the workplace.
Maintaining Safety at the Worksite
We work with our third party factories to ensure that all Hasbro products are manufactured in safe and healthy work environments that respect workers’ rights.
Mandatory safety standards are in place at all our facilities and operations, implemented with management leadership and employee involvement at each location. These standards are based on best practices and stringent global regulatory requirements. They include health and safety work practices, employee education and training, appropriate communication, incident reporting and investigation, and safety inspections. Each facility must also meet specific country or local requirements. To ensure compliance we conduct regular audits at our owned and operated facilities around the world. Our manufacturing facilities are audited on rotation, every two years, our distribution centers every three years, and our offices every five years. In 2010, we audited three facilities in France, the Czech Republic and Romania.
Training
The safety hazards Hasbro employees may encounter vary by facility, type of operation and individual job tasks. Hazards may be posed by machinery, material handling, operating industrial vehicles, working with chemicals and tools, or office work. We seek to eliminate risks wherever possible through sound design as well as safeguards, warning devices, personal protective equipment, administrative controls, and rigorous procedures and training. Every employee must complete the minimum standard of health and safety training appropriate to their job. For example:
- Managers, supervisors and team leaders must complete incident investigation training
- Employees who work with, or who may be exposed to, live electrical circuitry must complete specific training every two years
- Employees who handle hazardous waste must complete annual training.
Safety Stars
Our owned and operated factory in East Longmeadow (ELM), Massachusetts, was the proud winner of the U.S. Voluntary Protection Program Participants’ Association’s 2011 VPPPA Outreach Award. The award recognizes member sites that have shared safe practices or developed new techniques to create a safer, healthier work environment.
Reducing Ergonomic Injury
Any ergonomic injuries to employees, such as sprains and repetitive stress, are taken very seriously. Each office facility is required to document site-specific ergonomics practices and procedures and communicate them to employees. Each new process introduced into the work environment is assessed to identify potential hazards and conditions that might lead to an increase in musculoskeletal injuries.
We also instruct and encourage employees to report any symptoms immediately so that steps can be taken to mitigate any risk of a more serious injury. We provide ergonomics training such as proper lifting techniques to employees whose job involves risk factors (repetitive motion, excessive force, awkward body postures or positions, vibration, etc.).