We continuously improve our high standard in occupational Health & Safety further by means of training and technical measures. Many plants have developed management systems for occupational health and safety.
Since 2003, we have collected uniform occupational safety data across the Group for the cement business line. The table below shows that we are still recording too many accidents, unfortunately including some fatalities. In order to tackle this problem, we have established an expert group at Group level comprising members from all regions. The focal areas are the exchange of expertise concerning accidents, measures to prevent accidents and the information about best practice examples. An occupational Health & Safety policy, applicable across the Group, has been compiled.
| Occupational Health & Safety |
|
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
| Accident frequency rate1) |
10.5 |
8.1 |
11.9 |
6.0 |
5.6 |
| Accident severity indicator2) |
281 |
167 |
169 |
169 |
129 |
| Fatality rate3) |
1.1 |
2.4 |
2.0 |
0.4 |
1.1 |
| 1) |
Number of accidents (with at least one lost working day) suffered by Group employees per 1,000,000 working hours |
| 2) |
Number of lost working days resulting from accidents suffered by Group employees per 1,000,000 working hours. |
| 3) |
Number of fatalities of Group employees per 10,000 Group employees |