Energy-Saving Tip: Employee Engagement

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Employee engagement with energy efficiency projects are key to achieving energy savings goals. In this bonus video of the Better Buildings Challenge SWAP 4 (), brought to you by the U.S. Department of Energy, watch how employees at L’Oréal USA and General Motors have a vital role in the companies’ goals and the ripple effect that engagement has at home.

SWAP mirrors the goal for DOE's Better Buildings Challenge, an initiative launched in 2011 to improve efficiency of American commercial, institutional, multifamily buildings and industrial plants by 20 percent or more over 10 years with leading CEOs and executives sharing ideas to help spur billions in new investments and energy savings in their facilities.

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Our employees are a crucial piece of meeting our 2020 targets. Without their engagement and enthusiasm, we wouldn’t be unlocking the true potential of sustainability to make a positive impact on our business.

We use a 2014 baseline and our goal is to reduce the energy intensity of our products by 25% by 2020. So, this is just an update for people to understand where our energy use is coming from and –

Yeah, I love that. You’ve got the significant energy users –

Yeah –

And you’re showing that your high-use processes –

Yeah –

That’s fantastic.
Yeah. And, then, over here, we have Microwatt – he’s our renewable-energy mascot and he pops up in fun places, like on light switches, to remind people turn the lights off when you leave – things like that.

When you walk down the hall, you feel very connected to the employees and what their priorities are.

In every plant, the people has accept this as a best practice and they are all doing it and they are very engaged.

And, the high level of engagement of our employees means that they take ownership over their line; they’re responsible for shutting their line down, to operate things in a most energy-efficient manner.

We keep track of how much waste we lose every day, on the line; each line does that. It makes you stop and think what all you need to, to do at home to keep the environment safe and everything.

That employee engagement is something I’m definitely taking back because these employees are living it. Judy and other team members, they’re taking it home and doing it there as well.

So, we have a zero-emissions goal and that really gets the employees excited that they’re part of making an extended-range vehicle and they come up with methods and objectives so that they can meet the overall target for the plant.

so , this month, for my team, specifically, we do making sure that we keep the material bins free of trash and making sure that the fans are off at the end of the day, making sure that fans are off at the end of the day.

So do you report it in to a certain structure or is it displayed somewhere in the facility?

Yes, we have a board in our team room which is the BEP board where we display everything. We have six different areas that we track daily and some what we see fit for our goals for the month.

What’s the best energy-savings idea you’ve ever heard of?

Every break, you shut the lights off, on the line.

Employee engagement is really key with what we do, in regards to energy and sustainability. Whether it’s shutdowns, whether it’s suggestions, whether it’s recycling – those employee-engagement pieces are really key to getting done what we want to get done and to continuously improve.