Our Safety Performance

We work hard to eliminate all injuries and incidents from our workplaces and we are proud that our efforts are having real impact, as evidenced by the continuous reduction in our safety performance statistics over recent years.

We reduced our Lost Time Injury Frequent Rate (LTIFR) by 20 per cent, from 1.9 injuries per million hours in the 2010/2011 financial year to 1.55 in 2010/11. We also reduced our Total Recordable Injury Frequency rate (TRIFR) from 7.5 injuries per million hours worked  to 6.8 over the same period, a reduction of 9.5 per cent.

We have well-developed systems, processes and metrics for reporting personal and process safety performance that support internal performance management, promote learning and enable public reporting.

Health and safety data are collected for all our operations. We collect data from our part-owned entities and joint ventures and contractors that work under our control. Incidents are recorded in a central database and are investigated to identify key learnings and improvement opportunities.

Serious incidents such as major spills, serious injuries, together with successful incident-free milestones, are reported to our executive management. These events are also communicated to our people using our Incident alert process, intranet and monthly reports. We use the internationally recognised  US OSHA 300 protocol for classifying our injuries so we are able to benchmark our performance and therefore drive continuous improvement.