Health and Safety
The health, safety and wellbeing of all employees, contractors, visitors, neighbors and customers remain at the forefront of our business activity.
The Group’s safety policy is based on the premise that all accidents are preventable. The Group has well developed safety education and training programs and safety statistics are carefully monitored.
Our Safety Records
We measure safety performance using two key performance indicators. The Lost Time Injury Rate (LTIR) records work-related accidents or illnesses preventing individuals involved being able to report for work on the following day or shift. These are expressed as a rate per 200,000 hours (approximately the time worked by 100 people in one year). The LTIR was 0.30 in 2008; an improvement of 12 percent.
As the LTIR has improved, it has become less useful as an indicator of performance and the Significant Injury Rate (SIR) is now our primary indicator. This records injuries requiring medical treatment or the reallocation of duties to allow an individual to continue working. The SIR was 1.29 in 2008; an improvement
of 19 percent.
There were 132 lost time injuries and 437 injuries classified as significant in the year, for the total 32,500 Group employees. Tragically there were two fatal accidents on our sites in the financial year. An employee was run over by a forklift truck in the Rossford USA plant and a permanent contract driver was killed loading glass at the Kansai facility in Japan.
