SustainCase: How Delta ensures employee health, safety and security

Case study: How Delta ensures employee health, safety and security


As a global aviation leader, with 180 million customers in the United States and around the globe and 335 destinations in 58 countries, employing 84,245 people, Delta strives to provide a healthy and safe workplace for all employees, through a range of safety and health policies, regulations and programs.


Abstract


Creating a proactive safety culture for all employees, through a number of procedures and initiatives intended to ensure a safe and healthy work environment, is a key priority for Delta. In order to ensure employee health, safety and security Delta took action to:

• improve safety at facilities through annual Safety Business Plans

• increase employee awareness of health and safety through the National Safety Month

• offer health benefits to employees

• protect the health of traveling employees


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