Safety & Health

With more than 100 manufacturing locations employing over 29,000 people around the world, Cooper and its employees work hard to provide a safe and healthy workplace.

 2008 Take Charge Safety and Health Award Winners

Tri-Star Award ($2,500)
Cooper Power Systems Pewaukee, Wisconsin

Bi-Star Awards ($1,500)
Cooper B-Line Highland, Illinois
Cooper Lighting Mexicali, Mexico
Cooper Tools Group Apex, North Carolina

Star Awards ($1,000)
Cooper Power Systems Greenwood, South Carolina
Cooper Power Systems Guadalajara, Mexico
Cooper Power Systems Shanghai, China
Cooper Safety Cwmbran, Wales
Cooper Wiring Devices Mexico City, MX (Plant 2)

Honorable Mentions
Cooper Bussmann Shanghai, China
Cooper Crouse-Hinds LaGrange, North Carolina
Cooper Lighting Eufaula, Alabama
Cooper Lighting Monterrey, Mexico
Cooper Power Systems Lumberton, Mississippi
Cooper Power Systems Olean, New York
Cooper Power Systems Taiwan, ROC
Cooper Safety Nottingham, United Kingdom
Cooper Tools Group Westhausen, Germany

 Cooper's Take Charge Safety and Health Awards

Cooper established a unique program, the Take Charge Safety and Health Awards, to increase the awareness and effective management of safety and health processes at all our facilities with a goal of keeping accidents and injuries to a minimum.

The Take Charge Awards recognize facilities that have outstanding safety records and demonstrate creative approaches to safety management. The Take Charge program focuses on three key forms of measurement for each competing facility: management of safety programs and systems, safety and health systems, and innovations within the safety and health program. Cooper honors top performers on an annual basis with grants to local programs promoting community safety, such as fire prevention, emergency planning and CPR training.

The Take Charge Awards have played an important role in making Cooper's facilities among the safest in the United States. In the United States, Cooper's rate of lost time cases for 2005 was 37% below the National Bureau of Labor Statistics' average for the manufacturing sector and 18% lower than last year.