JSW Steel USA’s Post

Two weeks ago I stood in front of the Steel Manufacturers Association Safety Committee in Houston and talked about what we're building at JSW USA. This week, the number came in for JSW's Baytown facility: 1,000,000 man-hours without a lost workday injury. This achievement took tremendous effort and a commitment to our vision of providing the safest workplace for our teammates. This took Darrell Harden having the hard conversation with someone who cut a corner. It required Christie Perrett, Leticia Garcia, Javier Balderas, Mark Marquez, Ron Arreola, and Dawn Covington showing up every shift knowing the standard doesn't move. And it required every single operator on that floor making the same choice, every single day. They understood the vision, followed the processes, and bought into the insight the safety team built the program around. That is what our values look like when they are working. A million hours is 2,000 shifts and this team showed up to 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗲 of them. Steel manufacturing is not a forgiving environment. The work is physical, the equipment is uncompromising, and the margin for error is small. What this team has built took patience, discipline, and genuine care for the people on that floor. These are the husbands, mothers, sons, and daughters of our community. #BetterEveryDay (Pictured from l - r: Baytown's Ron Arreola, Darrel Hardin, Letita Garcia, Vinay Sharma, Mark Marquez, Christie Perrett.)