Case Study: Corning achieves best-ever safety record and halves MSDs with VelocityEHS Industrial Ergonomics

Overcoming Challenges to Achieve Best Safety Record Ever—Using Ergonomics

Corning, a global leader in materials science with roughly 51,000 employees, set out to standardize safety across its 75+ manufacturing sites after recognizing a high incidence of musculoskeletal disorders (strains and sprains). Without an enterprise ergonomics program and with strict IP/privacy concerns around video-based assessments, Corning needed a measurable, scalable approach to reduce repetitive-injury risk and deliver on its vision of an injury-free workplace.

Corning’s safety team, led by Tony Salvadore, deployed a management system for ergonomics using VelocityEHS Industrial Ergonomics (including AI/motion-capture with background blurring), combined with daily visual management (MDI), standardized assessments, risk matrices, and targeted action plans. Within three years MSDs were cut in half, Corning achieved its best-ever safety record in 2022, and its injury rate reached a world-class 0.335 (OSHA basis), along with improved productivity, quality, and safety culture.

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Wendell P. Weeks

Chairman and CEO