During the ceremony, the Group acknowledges the best Socially Responsible Projects
Published 05-02-19
Submitted by Bridgestone Americas
Bridgestone Corporation announced the winners of the "Bridgestone Group Awards 2019" at a ceremony held on March 27, 2019.
The Bridgestone Group Awards began in 2008 as an annual recognition program open to all employees and organizations of the Bridgestone Group. This recognition program confers the Bridgestone Group’s highest level of awards to promote greater employee awareness and engagement incorporate activities based on the Bridgestone Essence. Since 2017 the program has included five categories based on the Group’s Our Way to Serve global CSR commitment, which includes the three Priority Areas of Mobility, People and Environment, an Achievement category, which recognizes excellence in general corporate activities, and the Management Fundamentals category that includes the Groups foundation areas to drive sustainability. Award recipients were selected by a panel of judges comprised of members of global executive management.
In the 2019 Ceremony, a total of nine projects were recognized as exemplary initiatives, representing all of the company’s regions. The Bridgestone Global Awards represent an important channel for accomplishing the Group’s ultimate goal of becoming a truly global company and achieving the standing of “Dan-Totsu”—the absolute and clear leader—in all aspects of its business.
Our Way to Serve is meant to guide the Bridgestone Group’s ongoing development as a sustainable company and to accelerate fulfilling its mission of “Serving Society with Superior Quality.” Accordingly, these awards are an important driver of innovation and continuous improvement that helps ensure the Group’s ongoing competitiveness in a rapidly changing business environment.
The activities selected and recognized are as follows.
Achievement: One Winner
Name: Shaping Tomorrow: New Bridgestone Americas Headquarters
Recipients: Bridgestone Americas, Inc.
Overview: Following the construction of its new headquarters, Bridgestone Tower, and a new Operations Center in Nashville, Tennessee, Bridgestone Americas was able to consolidated more than 2,200 employees that had previously been spread across multiple bases, allowing for smoother communication between functions.
Mobility: One Winner
Name: “Precision Docking” Tire and Curb Development for Barrier-Free (Universal Design) of Advanced Rapid Transit
Recipients: Bridgestone Corporation Bridgestone BRM Co., Ltd.
Overview: This award was presented in recognition of a development project that examined both bus tires and curbs with the aim of enhancing curb docking by enabling bus tires to more closely approach curbs in order to minimize the gaps between boarding entrances and bus stops. The goal of this project was to allow for senior citizens, individuals using wheelchairs or pushing strollers, and others to board buses with greater ease. This project helped remove barriers to bus riding through the development of a specialized curb design for bus stops that prevents contact between vehicles and curbs while reducing wear on tire sidewalls as well as the development of technologies for avoiding wear on the portions of tire sidewalls that make contact with curbs.
People: Three Winners
Name: Improvement of the Support System in Disasters
Recipients: Bridgestone Tire Japan Co., Ltd., Bridgestone Corporation, Bridgestone Logistics Co., Ltd., Bridgestone Retail Japan Co., Ltd.
Overview: Learning from the recent increase in natural disasters, these companies introduced systems for confirming employee safety in times of disasters and also improved for storing emergency aid supply. These preparations proved beneficial when they facilitated the smooth confirmation of employee safety and provision of relief supplies to affected regions and stores following disasters that occurred in 2018, such as Typhoon Jebi and the Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake.
Management Fundamentals: Three Winner
Name: Safety Transformation Journey: New Approaches to, Engage and Train Our Teammates
Recipients: Bridgestone Europe NV/SA
Overview: Bridgestone Europe has been implementing initiatives for improving the quality of its employee safety education programs. For example, this company created videos for raising awareness regarding potential dangers based on the theme of actual factory workplaces. In addition, the Béthune Plant in France conducts safety trainings that incorporate VR technologies. As a result of these initiatives, Bridgestone Europe witnessed a 30% reduction in occupational accidents in 2018 in comparison to 2016.
About Bridgestone Corporation:
Bridgestone Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo, is the world’s largest tire and rubber company. In addition to tires for use in a wide variety of applications, it also manufactures a broad range of diversified products, which include industrial rubber and chemical products and sporting goods. Its products are sold in over 150 nations and territories around the world.
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Nashville, Tennessee-based Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (BSAM) is the U.S. subsidiary of Bridgestone Corporation, the world’s largest tire and rubber company. BSAM and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture and market a wide range of Bridgestone, Firestone and associate brand tires to address the needs of a broad range of customers, including consumers, automotive and commercial vehicle original equipment manufacturers, and those in the agricultural, forestry and mining industries. The companies are engaged in retreading operations throughout the Western Hemisphere and produce air springs, roofing materials, and industrial fibers and textiles. The BSAM family of companies also operates the world’s largest chain of automotive tire and service centers. Guided by its global corporate social responsibility commitment, Our Way to Serve, the company is dedicated to improving the way people live, work, move and play in all of the communities it calls home.
Corporate Social Responsibility
Understanding that Serving Society with Superior Quality is our heritage and our mission, and embracing our responsibility to future generations as a global leader in our industries, Bridgestone and its teammates around the world employ innovation and technology to improve the way people move, live, work and play.
The best companies not only perform for their stakeholders, but also contribute to a better world.
Through innovative technology, Bridgestone is committed to providing easier, safer, smoother and more seamless mobility for its customers. Building on the enthusiasm of its employees to connect with people worldwide, the company is also focused on building safer and healthier communities, and improving access to education. With regard to the environment, Bridgestone continues to work toward a sustainable society by operating in harmony with nature, valuing natural resources, and reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
People
We are committed to utilizing our strengths and competencies to address health, safety and education issues in our communities.
Mobility
Through innovative technology, we are committed to easier, safer, smoother and seamless mobility for our society and customers.
Environment
We are committed to continually working toward a sustainable society with integrity and in unity with our customers, partners, communities and the world around us.
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