Our people and culture Embedding our culture of safety 49
Embedding our culture of safety A year of progress towards our ambitious target Our goal is to ensure that everyone gets home safe everyday: empowering all employees to protect their health and safety and that of their colleagues. Their active participation in building a culture of safety helps create a safe working environment.
Safety underlines everything we do and, with the commitment to send everyone home safe everyday, we continue to make good progress towards our ambitious Lost Time Injury Rate (LTIR) target of under 0.1 by the end of 2020. In 2019, our LTIR was 0.22, down from 1.03 in 2009, with no fatal injuries. In addition, the Total Recordable Case Rate (TRCR) was down from 1.76 to 0.81. This means we have reduced the rate of injuries requiring medical treatment by 36% since 2018. The improvement in LTIR is the result of the increased inclusion and sustained engagement by our employees in safety issues – more sites and more employees are more involved. We have been particularly successful in driving safety contacts, which are quality conversations correcting safety issues and
reinforcing good safety behaviour. In 2019, a record level of over 30,000 such contacts was achieved. This success is supported by the championing of safety best practice, continuous improvement in our safety management system, and programmes that help embed a culture of safety at work and at home, including safety workshops, safety awareness campaigns, safety engagement events and the implementation of our EHS Facilitator programme. The results of these safety awareness actions can be seen in, for example, the excellent safety results in Asia Pacific in midAugust 2019, with passing 365 days of work with zero lost-time injuries achieved at our Flavours sites – ‘a year of safety’. This milestone was particularly creditable given the complexity of our operations and the region’s numerous laboratories and offices.
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An inspiring milestone in safety: Since 2009, we have achieved a reduction in injuries of 79%. 2019 Safety performance – ‘Everyone Home Safe everyday’ 1.2
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Lost Time Injury (LTI) refers to the number of accidents on the job involving an absence from the workplace for a minimum of one day.
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Lost Time Injury Rate
0.2
Lost Time Injury Rate (LTIR) is the measure of the number of occupational incidents with at least one day of work lost relative to 200,000 hours of work.
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LTIs
1.0
Lost Time Injury
Million hours worked safely
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LTI Target
Givaudan – 2019 Integrated Annual Report
