Health and Safety

Health and Safety is our industry’s top priority. In 2008 the industry strategy committed to a reportable injuries indicator. The reportable injuries indicator below shows a continued improvement with a total reduction of 15% compared to the 2008 baseline.

Performance indicator

Reportable injuries per 100,000 direct employees per annum

reportable injuries graph

 

In 2009 the industry committed to reporting, Lost Time Injuries (LTI). This is in line with the Mineral Products Association (MPA) health and safety programme and is part of the concrete industry journey to the ultimate objective of ‘Zero Harm’. It should be noted that the move to reporting LTI’s precedes the changes in the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) criteria for reportable injuries which will impact the 2012 data.

 

 

 

 

Improving road safety awareness is a core priority for the concrete industry. For more information see the Safer Cycling Campaign.

 

 

 

 

Lost Time Injuries (LTIs) for direct employees per 1,000,000 hours worked

HandS LTI graph

The collection of LTI data is in the early stages. Data from the precast sector was included in 2010, but was not available in 2009. Consequently the increase observed in concrete data sets in 2010 is caused by this change in baseline data. This increase does not reflect a decrease in performance, as corroborated by the original H&S indicator.

 

Further information on the health and safety indicator can be found in the full report.