Special Safety Talk: "Safety and Innovation at DuPont."
The following message was sent on behalf of Director Chu; all employees, especially PIs, are encouraged to attend:
I write to remind you that Dr. Thomas Connelly of DuPont has been invited to the Lab to share with us how DuPont incorporates safety into its research and innovation culture. As we agreed at DDM, Division Directors should ensure their Divisional employees are aware of the talk; PIs especially should make every effort to attend.
Dr. Connelly will speak on Monday, September 25. Below is his biography as well as DuPont's safety record.
The details of Dr. Connelly's talk are:
Speaker: Thomas M. Connelly, Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer, DuPont
Title: "Safety and Innovation at DuPont"
Date: Monday, September 25, 2006
Time: 12 noon-1:00 p.m.
Location: Bldg. 50 Auditorium
Why You Should Attend: Over the past year, some Lab employees have said that they don't understand how research productivity and safety can both be accomplished within time and budget constraints. This is a chance to hear a different point of view, that the two can be incorporated successfully.
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Speaker's biography : Thomas M. Connelly, Jr. is executive vice president, chief innovation officer and a member of the company's Office of the Chief Executive. He joined DuPont in 1977, as research engineer at the DuPont Experimental Station in Wilmington, Del.
From 1980 to 1985, Dr. Connelly served in research and plant technical leadership roles, in Deepwater, N.J., Louisville, Ky. and Parkersburg, W. Va. In 1985, Dr. Connelly became global product manager for the Permasep® business, based in Delaware.
From 1987 until 1994, Dr. Connelly worked in Europe, first as manager for Polymer Products in the United Kingdom, and as director for the European Technical Center in Geneva, Switzerland.
While still in Geneva in early 1992, Dr. Connelly assumed leadership of the Delrin® engineering resins business, serving for the next five years as business director. Early in 1994, he moved to Hong Kong where he continued his Delrin® role, and added responsibility for the Engineering Polymer business throughout Asia, except Japan.
In mid-1997, Dr. Connelly assumed the role of business director for Kevlar® aramid fiber, based in Richmond, Va. In January 1999 he was named vice president and general manager – DuPont Fluoroproducts. He was named senior vice president and Chief Science & Technology Officer in September 2001. He was appointed to his current position in June 2006.
Dr. Connelly was born in Toledo, Ohio. He graduated with highest honors from Princeton University with degrees in chemical engineering and economics. As a Winston Churchill Scholar, he received his doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of Cambridge.
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DuPont's Safety Record: DuPont has a long history of putting safety first and is generally recognized as an industry leader in safety. The most recent recognition came this year when the National Safety Council awarded its 2006 Green Cross for Safety Medal to DuPont. According to the U.S. Bureau of labor, DuPont has a workplace safety record 11 times better than the nation's industrial average.
DuPont believes that all injuries and occupational illnesses, as well as safety and environmental incidents, are preventable, and our goal for all of them is zero. In the last five years DuPont's injury rate is statistically better than the previous year. This year the lost time injury rate (0.126 lost-time injuries per 200,000 exposure hours) is 50% lower than it was last year.
