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Product Safety
John Deere strives to conduct business and design products in a manner that safeguards customers.
Appropriate features are built into John Deere products to help protect operators and others from injury, illness and fatigue. The company's 100 Series and Select Series lawn and garden tractors, for example, provide an option that requires operators to engage a switch to mow in reverse. That helps ensure users check behind them for hazards. The machines also have a brake interlock that prevents starting the mower unless the brakes are engaged.
At company factories, product safety committees and product safety facilitators are involved in product improvement and development processes. They conduct comprehensive safety reviews using tools such as John Deere's Hazard Discovery and Rating System, checklist-based reviews, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, and the Quantitative Safety Risk Assessment.
At the corporate level, the company's Product Safety Department works with factory safety committees, especially during product technology development, and provides coordination and consistent processes for multiple-factory product development projects. The department also keeps units informed of safety developments and product-safety professionals participate in trade associations and standards development organizations.
The company also works with customers,
John Deere dealers and external safety organizations to promote proper use and maintenance of its products. John Deere provides training resources such as videos, posters, brochures, and guides, including materials that teach children about safety. It also supports child safety organizations, such as Farm Safety 4 Just Kids. In addition, dealers are encouraged to promote safety in their communities through local John Deere safety days.
Besides regular training programs for professional equipment operators, the company delivers safety DVDs with new lawn and garden tractors. Deere also has produced television programs to educate property owners who may be unaware of standard safety practices for the equipment they use to maintain their land.
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