Balfour Beatty - Corporate Responsibility Summary Report 2007
Balfour Beatty - Corporate Responsibility Summary Report 2007
Balfour Beatty - Corporate Responsibility Summary Report 2007
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BENCHMARKING OUR SAFETY PERFORMANCE<br />
We benchmark our safety performance against industry norms in the<br />
construction and rail sectors. In the UK, Germany, US and Hong Kong<br />
our performance compares favourably with those external norms.<br />
UK safety benchmarking<br />
Within the UK, we benchmark our safety performance against the published<br />
industry statistics from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). We compare<br />
very favourably with the UK industry norms for fatal, major and all reportable<br />
injuries.<br />
Comparison of UK injuries and fatalities vs HSE's construction industry<br />
norm<br />
Rates per 100,000<br />
employees (direct &<br />
indirect) <strong>2007</strong> 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002<br />
HSE's<br />
construction<br />
industry<br />
norm<br />
(2006/07)<br />
All reported injuries 599 668 819 883 1,050 1,152 865.3<br />
Non-fatal major<br />
injuries<br />
170 240 239 205 224 255 295.4<br />
Fatalities 0 0 0 0 6.7 8.3 4<br />
Case studies about safety and<br />
health management<br />
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manage safety and health issues<br />
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42%<br />
improvement in our all reported<br />
injury rate since 2002<br />
88%<br />
lower OSHA lost time rate for<br />
<strong>Balfour</strong> <strong>Beatty</strong> Construction US<br />
compared to the industry average<br />
All reported injury rate: our rate fell to 599 per 100,000 employees (direct and<br />
indirect). Since 2002 there has been a 48% improvement in our all reported<br />
injury rate. This compares very favourably with the reported HSE rate for the<br />
construction sector of 865 (this HSE figure has not been adjusted for<br />
widespread under-reporting). Our <strong>2007</strong> all injury rate is 31% less than the<br />
HSE's rate for the construction sector.<br />
Fatal injury rate: our rate was once again zero in <strong>2007</strong>, as it was in 2006 and<br />
2005. The HSE norm for the construction sector is 4 for 2006-7.<br />
Non-fatal major injury rate: our rate fell to 170 per 100,000 employees. This is<br />
well below the construction sector rate of 295.4 and has improved by 33%<br />
since 2002.<br />
HSE construction data<br />
Other UK benchmarks<br />
We are also able to make comparisons with other industry norms. For<br />
example the British Safety Council publishes an average All Accident<br />
Incidence Rate of 2220.93 for 2006/07 for the Construction Industry,<br />
compared to our UK rate of 599, ie 73% better.<br />
In <strong>2007</strong> Stent Piling recorded an Annual Incident Rate (AIR) of 12.1, which is<br />
46% better than the Federation of Piling Specialists (FPS) rate of 22.6.<br />
In the UK Mechanical and Electrical Sector, <strong>Balfour</strong> Kilpatrick and Haden<br />
Young both recorded accident incident rates which are at least 75% (60% in<br />
2006) better than the sector average; published in the BSRIA <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2007</strong><br />
(BSRIA is a leading consultancy, test and research organisation for the<br />
Construction Industry).<br />
Performance against UK industry targets
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