We strive to sustain a safety culture that integrates safety into all parts of our business. Safety is a core value of our company. We hold our leadership teams accountable for creating and maintaining a safe environment to work and shop. Safety practices are incorporated into each job task, and we believe training is critical to ensuring safety awareness and knowledge are maintained at the highest level.
Lowe's has taken training to the sales floor by developing impactful training materials to enhance classroom, computer and other means of training our employees to work safely every day. In 2010, our store employees voluntarily took more than 3.7 million Employee Awareness Safety, Shrink and Customer Service quizzes. The quizzes, training and consistent communication of our safety expectations continue to improve our safety record. During the past seven years, our stores and supply chain locations have consistently reduced their number of claims and improved their level of commitment to a safe work environment.
We continued to implement the safety program we piloted in the Regional Distribution Centers and some Flatbed Distribution Centers in 2009. The STOP™ For Each Other Program, developed by DuPont and adopted by Lowe's, helps participants improve their safety awareness by integrating safety into every action they take at work and away from work. The program is scheduled to be active in all Regional and Flatbed Distribution Centers by the end of 2011.
Lowe's also continued to enhance our Integrated Safety Leadership system by rolling out key programs and processes to support the execution of the distribution network's safety vision statement and sustain Lowe's safety culture for future generations. These processes and programs include daily safety reviews and monthly safety committee meetings in which team members teach and train each other to increase safety awareness.
We are committed to maintaining a culture in which everyone is responsible for safety. It is a daily focus and way of conducting business.