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18
UNION PACIFIC
1984, with no sign of slowing.
Technology and quality processes
enable employees to best use these
critical resources – locomotives,
freight cars, and track and terminal
capacity.
Productivity is equally important
in maintenance activities. For
example, in 2002 UP’s concrete tie
gang set a record for the number
of ties installed – 22,131 in a four-
day period – using technologically
advanced machines and teamwork.
Safety and productivity
improvements are at the heart of
UP’s voluntary employee involve-
ment process. In 2002, employees’
ideas saved nearly $5 million and
generated an additional $2 mil-
lion in revenue. Chicago’s loco-
motive shop employees used
quality processes to identify a
new, less expensive replacement
part that saved $600,000 in one
year. In 2002, the employee
involvement process migrated to
the Web, providing greater access
for employees and additional cost
savings.
Safety is a top priority for all
47,000 employees, who reduced
year-over-year reportable injuries
by 17 percent in 2002, continuing
a three-year trend. Leading the
way is Beverly Washington, who
received the company’s highest
honor, the Kenefick Safety Award.
A fireman/oiler at the Los Angeles
Locomotive Shop, Washington
represented Union Pacific in May
2002 at the E.H. Harriman Award
Institute in Washington, D.C.
Safety’s importance is under-
scored in overall business
discussions led by executive
team members, who review
company goals with employees
in large conferences, in smaller
personal field visits, and in
monthly e-mails. The dialogue
helps employees understand
how their work contributes to
Union Pacific’s success.
n
Beverly Washington
received the company’s
highest honor, the Kenefick Safety Award,
for her exemplary efforts to maintain a
safe workplace at the Los Angeles
Locomotive Shop.
Executives meet with employees to
discuss company goals. Barb Schaefer,
senior vice president-Human Resources,
joins Laredo, Texas, employees, from
left, Daniel Sosa, Sr., Joe Ortiz and
Ramiro Sandoval, Jr.
With generations of employees Building Pride into every aspect of the
business, Union Pacific is reinventing success, decade after decade.
Productivity has increased at a compound annual rate of 7 percent since
BUILDING PRIDE
BUILDING PRIDE