PEOPLE OUR PROGRESS REPORT CARD SETTING THE BAR HIGHER In 2021, driven on by our relentless focus on safety, we delivered As we pursue our 2030 goal, business unit leaders are engaged our best recordable injury frequency (RIF) performance on record in the evolution of our safety vision. Our plan includes further for the third year in a row. We improved our RIF rate by 23% strengthening our safety-first culture by continuing to involve from our 2018 base year and by 2% from the previous year. We employees in developing solutions, listening to their concerns accomplished this result while leading our organization through and ensuring they feel comfortable talking to their peers about the global pandemic, effectively deploying enhanced safety potential hazards or unsafe behaviors. Continuing to provide measures and encouraging and making available vaccinations. safety learning opportunities for our leaders, safety professionals While we are proud of our progress, we are also very saddened and employees will enhance our efforts. We know the journey that a contractor suffered a fatal workplace injury at one of our ahead will be challenging but vitally important as we continue to facilities in 2021. This incident highlights that safety must always prioritize the safety of our employees and their families. remain the number one focus of all workers, and it further Here are some ways our various locations have helped us strengthens our safety resolve. achieve a safer work environment. United States 2030 GOAL Safety is a priority starting on day one. Within our Large Power Safety Systems Division in East Peoria, Illinois, we incorporated feedback from operators, manufacturing engineers and subject We aspire to prevent all matter experts to define the key skills for each job, improved injuries and will further our standard work and provided job-specific training by validated industry-leading safety results trainers to certify new hires prior to releasing them to perform by reducing RIF by 50% from their jobs. Since this change, recordable injuries to newly hired 2018 to 2030. employees have been dramatically reduced. Recordable Injury Frequency (RIF) Europe Recordable injuries per 200,000 Practicing good ergonomics protects employees against hours worked injury. Our Grenoble, France, facility implemented several 0.53 innovative approaches to ergonomic design. This included 0.43 0.42 0.41 evaluation of traditional ergonomic risks, as well as an 0.27 assessment of the work environment within the area and operator feedback about the work. These approaches identified several ways we could use technology to perform a task and protect employees from potential harm. This facility recently ’18 ’19 ’20 ’21 ’30 celebrated one year free from ergonomic-related injuries. 42CATERPILLAR 2021 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT