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Rewarding Employee Innovation


Rewarding Employee Innovation

3M employees apply their own natural resource - innovation - to continuously move the company toward sustainability. Employee initiative is an important and valued element of 3M's progress. We salute their efforts with several annual awards recognizing the most outstanding contributions by individuals and teams.


  • 3M Pollution Prevention Pays (3P) Award salutes employees and teams that apply innovative thinking to projects that significantly reduce waste, prevent pollution and provide a positive economic benefit.

  • 3M's Environment, Health and Safety Achievement Award. This global award is open to every 3M employee or employee team in all 3M worldwide locations who are environmental, health and safety pioneers at work and in the community.

  • 3M CEO Safety and Health Award recognizes facilities, groups and business units for achieving sustained periods of zero lost time injury and/or illness cases. Calculated on a sliding scale according to exposure hours per month, this award equalizes the opportunity for achieving recognition between large and small units. Special categories take into consideration local reporting differences global.

  • 3M Applied Ergonomics Innovation Award recognizes efforts that improve the ability of employees to work safely and productively. It is not limited to improvements that reduce risk of injury, but also includes quality and efficiency improvements related to ergonomic issues.