Built In Quality
Achieving a 50% reduction in injury frequency in Victoria, TX
May 4, 2015 11:05 AM ET
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Caterpillar's 2014 Sustainability Report
Steven Rodriguez, team lead in Victoria, Texas, uses BIQ methodology to trace defects back to their root cause and works to eliminate them. Reducing the need to address defects through out-of-process rework also decreases the risk of injury. The Victoria facility has had about a 50 percent decrease in recordable injury frequency (RIF), or safety injuries, from 2013 to 2014.
Read more in the 2014 Sustainability Report.
