2021 SUSTAINABILITY PROGRESS REPORT | Cummins Inc. 45 communities return to something more closely resembling their pre-pandemic lives. He continues helping the company navigate the ongoing complexities of the pandemic. Cummins has an internal interdisciplinary team for managing COVID-19-related absences and the return to offices for employees who worked from home during the pandemic. The team consists of the Cummins Response Center, Human Resources, and medical professionals. Since the beginning of the pandemic, this team has supported every Cummins employee in returning to work and staying healthy. In addition to the vaccine initiative, the company redesigned plant entrances and exits, as well as production lines to allow for social distancing to protect manufacturing and distribution employees who had to be onsite to do their jobs. Cummins also set up manufacturing lines to produce masks for employees, and the company expanded its healthcare and leave programs to support employees and their families. Cummins leaders hope to have all offices open in 2022, pending local COVID-19 risk levels. Throughout the pandemic, every Cummins value has been on display, both within the company and in the communities where employees live and work. On April 1, 2021, the company’s values of caring, integrity, teamwork, excellence, and diversity and inclusion were on full display as Cummins held its first mobile clinic to provide COVID-19 vaccinations in Columbus, Indiana (U.S.). By the end of the year, the company or company-supported clinics provided more than 45,000 shots globally, including more than 5,000 shots in the United States, over 30,000 shots in India, and more than 10,000 shots in Mexico. The vaccine clinics were developed as part of an aggressive effort to acquire vaccines and provide them onsite or near- site to Cummins employees, their families and other stakeholders. The company partnered with governments and health care officials globally to remove some barriers to access, which looked different around the world due to variability in vaccine accessibility and distribution. Dr. Bob Chestnut, Cummins’ Chief Medical Executive Director, led the vaccination initiative, which helped many employees and SPECIAL REPORT VACCINE EFFORT DELIVERS 45,000 SHOTS TO EMPLOYEES, FAMILIES AND OTHERS A Cummins-supported vaccine clinic in Juarez, Mexico. HEALTH AND SAFETY //
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