By Dave Sebastian

 

Amazon.com Inc. said it has started a health and safety program called WorkingWell for U.S. employees, involving physical and mental activities, wellness exercises and healthy-eating support.

The company on Monday said the program is part of its investment of more than $300 million into safety projects in 2021. Amazon said it aims to cut recordable incident rates by 50% by 2025.

Some aspects of the program piloted in 2019 and has expanded to 859,000 employees at 350 sites in North America and Europe.

Write to Dave Sebastian at dave.sebastian@wsj.com

 

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

May 17, 2021 06:28 ET (10:28 GMT)

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