Occupational safety figures
Our indicators and measures show how we put the management approach to prevent accidents into practice throughout the company.
Accidents and sick rate
When recording lost-time injuries (LTI), we incorporate the applicable national definitions. In order to reduce the number of accidents, we have introduced additional sector-specific actions and programs, particularly on construction sites and in projects.
During the 2012 fiscal year, Siemens succeeded in further reducing the lost-time injuries frequency rate (LTIFR) of its employees to 0.38. Our contractors also reduced their LTIFR – to 0.28.
All figures quoted in this section refer to continuing and discontinued operations. Previous years have been adjusted to be comparable.
Fatal accidents involving employees and contractors
We have integrated the topics of occupational health and safety management more rigorously in our project business to try and improve the situation, and developed and introduced a company-wide standard for this purpose in fiscal 2011.
Regrettably, the number of fatal accidents further increased during fiscal 2012, with employees of contractual partners in India once again being affected most. We are stepping up our efforts and refining existing programs and measures to improve occupational safety there. For example, we now offer more special events, safety days, qualification measures and training courses for our contractors in India. We have also increased our occupational safety requirements when we select our contractual partners and developed and introduced a systematic process for their evaluation.
We do not present specific figures for fatal commuting accidents. In cases in which commuting accidents are regarded as work accidents according to national definitions, we have included them as such in the figures.
Occupational illness
The total number of recorded cases of occupational illness relative to the number of employees has remained at a low level for many years. The corresponding indicator (occupational illness frequency rate, OIFR, relative to 1,000,000 work hours performed) was 0.45 in fiscal 2012 (fiscal year 2011: 0.34; fiscal year 2010: 0.39). Here we report only the figures for Siemens AG. The OFIR is calculated solely on the basis of cases of occupational illness recognized by the Employers' Liability Insurance Association.
2011-Mar-08 | Author