PEOPLE India Global The Caterpillar facility in Thiruvallur produces structures for The development of our Product Support & Logistics Division’s off-highway truck frames. We formed a diverse team of line Safety Application Suite has allowed for a one-stop location operators, line section facilitators, section managers, manufacturing where facilities can access all available safety resources in engineers and the operations excellence team to review the risk a multitude of languages. Translated materials have helped analyses for the various stations. As a result of the project, we drive a better understanding of the materials and improved the implemented a collaborative robot in two stations to eliminate fall quality of data accrued from non-English speaking locations. We risks, bending at the waist, pinch points and repetitive motions increased participation now that the suite is accessible from any of loading and unloading the station manually. In another station, mobile device or computer. The project has increased diversity we installed a common adapter to eliminate the need for manual and inclusion within our safety programs and provided our sites change-out in between models, reducing the risk for pinch points, with an enhanced ability to engage directly with employees, slips and trips, as well as grip force injuries. These improvements regardless of location or language. not only improved safety, but they also engaged employees with the workstations to identify issues and develop solutions. Safety, efficiency and employee fatigue all improved substantially. 43CATERPILLAR 2021 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT