Ford Maintains Safety Team Amid Cuts

The hammer keeps coming down on Ford’s white collar staff, this time to the tune of a 14% across-the-dashboard cut. However, we hear that the safety engineering team will remain largely intact–cuts will be limited to 1% for them. This is good planning on Ford’s part. Aside from the obvious public relations disaster that most safety team cuts result in, it will give the safety team more pull in vehicle design decisions. This should help to keep passenger safety on the top of the list for the automaker, which endured the tire pressure fiasco some time ago. Avoidance of that sort of issue will be critical if Ford is to continue to pull itself back together.