2024 Community of Human and Organizational Learning 30th Annual Conference

Tesla’s mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy. At Tesla EHSS we are laser focused on integrating HOP mindset into everything we do. HOP helps us ensure safeguards are based on the blue line. We are building our own Tesla EHSS data management system and HOP mindset is embedded into the system from Design to Reporting. MyEHS is our one stop shop for all EHSS activities. It integrates all EHSS information into one Tesla system. System deployment also enabled HOP aligned language in how we manage events.
For event learning, we have two approaches. SAFE Tool (Safeguard Analysis for Events) and Learning Teams. SAFE tool is simple with three questions 1. What safeguards existed and worked? 2) What safeguards existed and did not work? 3. What safeguards did not exist but could have worked). Learning teams are conducted on events as well as successful work. Environmental Social Governance is moving companies to report non-financial indicators on the 10k. For our lagging indicators, we are moving away from OSHA lagging indicators as lagging metrics and moving towards ASTM as the global metric for safety success. This allows us to focus on what is important rather than focusing on everything.
For our leading indicators, we have our Take Charge program. Take Charge program promotes a culture of improvement by empowering those closest to the work. Take Charge is used in 44 countries, 1616 locations, in 16 different languages. By January 2024, we had 1,136,000+ Take Charge submissions globally with more than 70,100 unique submitters.
We continue to track the traditional lagging indicators only within EHSS. However, we do not set targets for them, we do not include them on our executive dashboards, and we do not include them in our external reporting. They are for tracking/trending purposes and internal EHSS use only. Our focus tells the world what we prioritize.
As a key takeaway, we recommend the following: 1) Hire people that have HOP mindset so that systems, and processes naturally align as you move in your journey. 2) Focus on building capacity to fail safely over preventing all events. 3) Don’t set goals against lagging metrics. 4) Implement tools that enable learning from those closest to the work.