Performance Summary – Health and Safety
Health and safety performance data is reported on a financial year basis from 1st April to 31st March (unless otherwise stated). Where necessary, data has been restated to reflect changes in the business, for example divestments and site closure.
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Health Performance
Incidence of Occupational Illness Conditions
| Incidence of occupational illness cases per 1,000 employees | |
|---|---|
| 20051 | 7.7 |
| 20061 | 4.6 |
| 20071 | 5.8 |
| 20092 | 5.5 |
| 20102 | 5.2 |
1 Calendar year.
2 Financial year.
Safety Performance
Accident Statistics
| 2010 | 2009 | Change % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Incidence of greater than three day accidents per 1,000 employees |
2.14 | 5.031 | -57 |
| Total number of accidents that resulted in lost time | 60 | 1061 | -43 |
| Total accident rate per 1,000 employees | 6.77 | 10.831 | -37 |
| Total lost time accident incident rate per 100,000 hours worked |
0.34 | 0.53 | -36 |
| Total number of days lost per 1,000 employees |
64 | 1241 | -48 |
1 Restated.
In July 2009, an employee of a contractor company who was engaged in work at Johnson Matthey’s catalyst manfacturing site in Taloja, India received a severe electric shock while carrying out work at the site. Regrettably, despite hospital treatment, his life could not be saved.
Accident Calculation Definitions
Johnson Matthey’s definition of an accident for the purposes of this report is any acute unplanned event that causes harm to individuals, making them unable to attend work on days after the date of the event. Accidents are further subdivided into accidents that result in more than three days’ work lost and those that cause three or less days to be lost. Accident incidence rates are calculated based on the rate of these accidents per 1,000 employees.
The following metrics are used in this report:
Incidence rate for all lost time accidents in the year = ((number of greater than three day accidents in the year + number of ‘three day or less’ accidents in the year) x 1,000) ÷ (average number of employees in the year).
Incidence rate for greater than three day accidents in the year = (number of greater than three day accidents in the year x 1,000) ÷ (average number of employees in the year).
Lost work days per 1,000 employees per year = (total lost work days in year x 1,000) ÷ (average number of employees in the year).
Frequency rate for all lost time accidents in the year = ((number of greater than three day accidents in the year + number of ‘three day or less’ accidents in the year) x 100,000) ÷ (number of hours worked in the year).
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