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3M didn’t do it alone: We worked closely with several educational partners to help bring the program to life, including Discovery Education, St. Paul Public Schools, Scientific American, and the Bakken Museum in Minneapolis.
The series has been well received by parents, teachers, and students, with more than 55,000 video views and 50,000 visits to the U.S. Science at Home webpage alone. “My seven-year-old daughter wants to be a chemist when she grows up, so we’ve had a lot of fun doing these experiments at home and learning some basic foundational concepts like chemical reactions, surface properties, lab safety, etc.,” says 3M Global Product Marketing Manager Anne B. McGuire. “We found the activities covered a good variety of concepts and were easy and exciting to conduct. I especially appreciated the diversity of presenters representing different ages, genders, and ethnic backgrounds,” she adds.
Although Science at Home was built for an American audience, the need extended beyond the United States. In April 2020, more than 1 billion students around the world were learning remotely due to the pandemic.
3M expanded Science at Home globally to countries including Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Australia, the United Arab Emirates, Mexico, Brazil, and Middle East Africa to further support STEM learning resources for teachers, caregivers, parents, and students. Each participating country adapted the program and its content to meet the needs of their specific audiences. For example, 3M Taiwan collaborated with the Discovery Channel, launching a “Life Science Adventure” online challenge featuring science behind the scenes of everyday life. The program includes online interactive sections that feature rarely known facts about science.
As a parent and scientist, Seth is proud to be part of Science at Home. “It made me feel, on a personal level, that I was contributing,” she says. “We all have a responsibility, whether you’re a scientist or not, to raise the next generation to have a basic awareness and appreciation for science. This includes being exposed to a scientific mindset and having a level of science literacy that will benefit their understanding of the world around them.” “Making it easy, making it accessible — that’s the whole key to this. You don’t have to go out and buy something special. You can do it in 10 minutes.”
Robert Brittain 3M Science Advocacy Program Manager.
The online video library contains more than 20 experiments.
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On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a 46-yearold Black man, was killed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, just 15 miles from 3M headquarters.
The resulting protests and civil unrest expanded across the United States and the world. This horrific event spurred a transformation within 3M — one that resulted in a commitment to social justice on a scale never before seen in our company’s history.
Listening and understanding.
Immediately following George Floyd’s death, CEO Mike Roman announced a framework to listen, understand, and act. Over 5,000 employees globally participated in a virtual conversation, expressing their feelings and ideas. Senior leaders held their own listening sessions in order to truly understand the challenges faced by Black/African Americans. It was the beginning of a journey to understand and led to 3M taking a series of immediate, impactful actions.
committing to an ambitious social justice agenda.
Over 5,000 employees globally participated in a virtual conversation, expressing their feelings and ideas.
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Leading the way.
One of the first steps was the creation of a new leadership role: 3M’s first-ever director of social justice strategy and initiatives, Garfield Bowen. We’re not aware of any other company that currently has a leadership role dedicated solely to social justice strategies and initiatives as 3M does. Bowen is uniquely qualified for the role with many years of leadership experience at 3M. “Being Black in America is like a second job,” he says, “and I’ve lived it. I grew up in Jamaica where the majority of the population was Black. When I moved to Minnesota, I was suddenly part of the minority. Like so many of my African American colleagues, I have one job to do because I’m Black, and another job to do that is my day job,” he explains. “Our leaders are learning through listening so together we can be part of the solution. There’s been a hunger for increased understanding, and that happens when we listen.” 3M created another new leadership role to accelerate our efforts to advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice, naming James Momon as vice president, Equity & Community and chief equity officer. The new Equity & Community organization pulls together the 3M teams leading diversity, equity, and inclusion; 3Mgives; as well as Bowen’s new social justice strategy group. This structure creates synergies and the opportunity to amplify and accelerate 3M’s mission toward equity in our workplaces, business practices, and communities.
Doing the work 3M activated 10 workstreams to create actions focused on talent acquisition, open and candid conversations, leadership and development opportunities, supplier diversity, government engagement and policy, and more. Ninety people have been appointed by senior leaders to take on lateral assignments across the company to drive this body of work and weave it into the fabric of our company. The workstreams are grounded on two platforms for change.
Platform 1: Racial justice for the future of work.
We have a unique capability to address workforce disparities based on the skills gaps created by automation, factories of the future, and the digitization that is needed to drive enterprises. Lower-order jobs are being displaced, and we recognize that the majority of people occupying those jobs are Black/ African American and Hispanic/Latino individuals. “We want to leverage our global capabilities as a science, technology, and manufacturing leader to bridge those gaps in marginalized communities,” Bowen says.
The workstreams in this platform include: • STEM & Skilled Trades • Community Coalition • Government Engagement & Policy • Sourcing — Supplier Diversity • Sustainability.
Platform 2: Empowering an inclusive culture.
Inclusivity has been a focus at 3M for years, and while we’ve made great progress, we know we have much more work to do to fully unleash the power of inclusion that will drive a better 3M.
The workstreams in this platform include: • Accelerating Workforce Diversity ○ Workforce Planning & Acquisition ○ Internal Process Review • Training & Development • Racial Inclusion Advocacy • Business Group Engagement.
Bowen, in his new role, is most excited about the ability to truly drive systemic change using this integrated and comprehensive approach. “We recognize that we need to work with government and community partners; we have to work on our internal practices; we have to mobilize our employees; and we need to drive equity throughout our value chain,” he says. “It’s a holistic approach and is set up to drive lasting, systemic change so we can truly be proud to be a purpose-driven enterprise.”
See the 3M 2020 Global Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Report and the Employee diversity, equity, and inclusion section for additional information and the announcement of new goals.
“It’s a holistic approach and is set up to drive lasting, systemic change so we can truly be proud to be a purpose-driven enterprise.”
Garfield Bowen Director of Social Justice Strategy and Initiatives.
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and the world solve global challenges.
Climate change, poverty, and health crises like COVID-19 are just a few of the many global challenges that need to be addressed.
In 2015, the United Nations (UN) adopted a plan to tackle these and other challenges over the next 15 years. Referred to as “Agenda 2030,” it’s a path defined by 17 specific Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs. Fulfilling these ambitions is possible but requires effort by all sectors in society — and business will play a very important role in the process.
There is power in collaboration, and strategic partners like the UN amplify 3M’s impact while building awareness with key stakeholders and audiences. 3M’s ongoing partnership with the UN includes participation in the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), the largest voluntary corporate sustainability initiative in the world.
There is power in collaboration, and strategic partners like the United Nations amplify 3M’s impact.
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Connecting 3M’s work to SDGs 3M technology is helping to advance the SDGs. Following are examples of how products and initiatives in three very different parts of 3M support SDGs:
Transportation Safety Division.
SDG 3.6: By 2020, halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents.
3M’s Transportation Safety products contribute to safer roads. Sign materials enhance low-light visibility of road signs, and higher-visibility vehicle markings improve vehicle conspicuity.
Health Care Business Group.
SDG 3.8: Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health care services, and access to safe, effective, quality, and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all.
3M contributes to the realization of universal health coverage by providing solutions that reduce the risk of infections and by providing resources that increase access to care, including: • Health care worker and patient protection. Personal protective equipment (PPE), hand hygiene, skin protection, and other solutions help protect health care workers and patients against healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). This is especially critical now, as we fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Reduction of bloodstream infections. 3M antimicrobial dressings nearly halve the risk of catheter infections. Other 3M accessories minimize the risk of infections aligned with global protocols.
• Dental care education. The Smile Around the World program taught basic oral hygiene practices to over 3,000 elementary schoolchildren in China.
Personal Safety Division.
SDG 8.8: Protect labor rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers, in particular women migrants, and those in precarious employment.
3M is improving occupational health and safety by: • Capacity building. 3M transfers our knowledge to national institutions. We shared best practices and educated policymakers, researchers, and labor inspectors in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand. We also partnered with leading universities in China to create the first two occupational health majors in the country.
• Helping to inform sciencebased regulatory frameworks. We are active in standards development in over 75 countries, participating in 220 standards development committees and in over 70 occupational health and safety-related professional associations.
• Creating employer and worker education programs. We invested in mobile training units in key countries, including U.S., China, India, Poland, and Korea and invested in trade skill development in the U.S. During 2020, we delivered digital training programs in China that were viewed by nearly 250,000 workers.
• Technology. 3M delivers health and safety content and solutions to employers, workers, policymakers, and key opinion leaders through many channels. Our Connected Safety platform is helping keep workers healthy, safe, and productive in the factories of the future.
Investing in the power of business to advance SDGs.
In 2020, 3M and the UNGC announced 3M’s sponsorship of SDG Ambition, a program to accelerate achievement of the SDGs by helping companies integrate them into their core business objectives. As Patron Sponsor of SDG Ambition, 3M will collaborate with program partners like SAP, Accenture, and the UNGC to provide leadership in program development, lending expertise in sustainability goal setting, and bringing an advanced manufacturing perspective.
3M helped guide and develop the curriculum of the first Accelerator Workshop in January 2021, participated in the program, and will assist with curriculum development for future workshops based on initial learnings. 3M CEO Mike Roman will participate as a speaker in upcoming UN thought leadership events.
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into change agents for safe roads around schools.
The students stand with their hands over their hearts, reciting together, “I pledge to promote safer roads, safer vehicles, and safety to other road users. I am a Young Change Agent for road safety, and I believe I can save lives.”
In India, approximately 38% of deaths among children ages 0 to 14, and 64% of deaths among teens ages 14 to 18, are due to road traffic accidents.1 Many accidents occur around schools. Drivers are going too fast and not paying attention in these busy, child-filled areas, and students are not sufficiently aware of and cautious about oncoming traffic.
It doesn’t help that the overwhelming majority of schools in India do not have roads with school zone or speed limit signs. “In western countries, school zone safety is a structured program, with designated zones for schools with identified signage systems, which currently do not exist in India,” said Pawan Kumar Singh, head, Transportation Safety Business, 3M India, in an interview with business publication Siliconindia.
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Schools located in high-traffic and vulnerable areas in India urgently need a consistent road safety system around schools. 3M India is helping to improve students’ safety through a new program called 3M Young Change Agents for Road Safety (YCARS). In partnership with Concern for Road and Pedestrian Safety and United Way, YCARS empowers students to advocate for safer streets and develops them into change agents who can help design solutions around their schools. The program uses an education model that combines behavior change and engineering improvements, where road safety education is child-centered and asks the question, “What if the changes on the road were to come from children?”
YCARS is structured as a three-day interactive program for students ages 10 to 15. Instead of simply building awareness about road safety, the program gathers recommendations from students about how to improve the hazardous road conditions around their school. Students take part in empathy workshops, learn about design thinking, conduct road safety audits, and create a plan for a Safe School Zone around their schools by plotting their recommended improvements on a Google map of their school zone. “These students are actually looking at the road problems around their schools, and they are giving us possible solutions,” Singh explains.
Working with local road authorities, 3M engineers then bring many of the students’ recommendations to life through the installation of innovative 3M road safety solutions, such as fluorescent reflective signage, raised pavement markers or road studs, flexible median markers, and reflective bollards for pavement.
Upon completing the YCARS program, students are certified as 3M Young Change Agents for Road Safety, pledging to share their learnings with their families and friends. “There’s actually a change happening around us,” says one of the Young Change Agents. “Signs are being introduced, and more measures are being taken so that it is easier for all road users to see they are in a school zone.”
Formally launched at the end of 2019, the YCARS program created more than 1,100 Young Change Agents for Road Safety and seven Safe School Zones at schools in Bangalore and Pune by the end of 2020. 3M plans to partner with local traffic authorities to scale the program and help improve safety in school zones across Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, and Pune, with an overall goal of reaching out to 50 to 100 schools in over 30 cities.
The program supports the United Nations Sustainability Development Goal (SDG) to stabilize and then reduce the forecast level of road traffic deaths around the world. Learn more about the YCARS program and how 3M is using our technologies to support the greater good in innovative ways.
1 https://www.siliconindia.com/news/ general/3m-india-lays-foundation-for-schoolsafety-zones-in-india-nid-211091-cid-1.html.
The 3M YCARS program created more than 1.1K Young Change Agents of Road Safety and 7 Safe School Zones at schools in Bangalore and Pune by the end of 2020.
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3M site spotlight.
In the middle of Mexico is 3M’s San Luis Potosí site, which manufactures products for all four 3M business groups.
Opened in 1991, its 1,500 employees work in the site’s five buildings and use the following core technologies: • Injection molding • Coating (solvent and hot melt), extruding • Tapes converting • Press, die cutting • Flexographic printing • Carding • Optical coating.
The products made at the site include cleaning supplies, vinyl electric tapes, and Scotch-Brite™ sponges and scouring pads.
The San Luis Potosí site has the following certifications: ISO 9001, ISO 14000, ISO 13485, and ISO/TS 16949, and is focused on continued excellence for our customers.
“It is important for our manufacturing site to contribute to the circular economy in order to benefit both the environment and 3M’s supply chain.”
Cristiano Campagnoli Site Manager.
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3M San Luis Potosí has reduced the amount of waste sent to the landfill by 1.5K metric tons per year.
A pelletizer recycles almost 100% of the polypropylene waste generated by the site’s processes.
Resource management.
At 3M San Luis Potosí, natural resource management is a focus area. “It is important for our manufacturing site to contribute to the circular economy in order to benefit both the environment and 3M’s supply chain, with practices that promote a reuse of natural resources, either by recycling them, reusing them where possible, or taking advantage of the energy contained in them,” says Site Manager Cristiano Campagnoli.
Instead of sending waste generated by the site to a landfill, 3M San Luis Potosí sends it to an external co-processing facility. The resulting ashes are included in the final formula for cement, used for construction of highways, houses, and buildings. These efforts have reduced the amount of waste sent to the landfill by 1,500 metric tons per year.
In addition, the San Luis Potosí site has a polypropylene pelletizer that recycles almost 100% of the polypropylene waste generated by the site’s processes. The polypropylene is then reused in the same process or used in the manufacture of floor care line products. This results in a reduction of approximately 600 metric tons annually.
The San Luis Potosí site is one of 18 3M sites located in a water-stressed/ water-scarce region. To conserve water, they have an innovative rain collection system that includes rainwater recovery tanks and a rainwater filtration system. This rainwater recuperation system captured 640 cubic meters of rainwater in 2020. The site also saves water by using innovative waterless urinals. These actions support 3M’s sustainability focus on Science for Circular.
Community engagement.