2012 Annual Report - Italcementi Group

Trainees (%) 2012 2011 2010
Manager 12 15 11
Blue collar 38
White collar 50
85 89
Hours of training pro capita 2012 2011 2010
Per trainee 10 11 11
Per participant 17 33 21
Per employee 17 18 19
Ratio participants/employees >1 0.6 0.9
3.2 Safety
The Group considers security and safety as fundamental values to be integrated in all its activities. To
emphasize this approach, the Group operations are driven by the Safety Policy introducing the motto: «Safety:
a way of living».
Adding more substance to the Policy, the Group adopts an enhanced Safety Management Handbook (SMH). It
is structured around five key areas: leadership of management in the creation of safety culture, elements to
foster motivation in safety, safety structures and the organizational framework, operational tools, and
contractors’ safety. The system implementation is permanently audited with recommendations issued to every
subsidiary. Regular follow-up and rating systems are evaluated and considered in the managers performance
appraisal. Furthermore, Safety Committees are formalized at any site and country level, also with the aim to
review roadmaps progress every quarter.
This safety management system is visibly endorsed by the group senior managers, who are trained specifically
on safety leadership, expressing their personal commitment to promote at their level and at every occasion the
new approach on safety, starting from the Group CEO. Personal commitments, periodically updated, are widely
promoted and made available for everyone through the company’s intranet system.
Making «Safety: a way of living», the Group is implementing Operational Safety Standards at all its sites. The
issued operational standards cover Personal Protective Equipment, Works At Height, Control of Hazardous
Energy (Lockout/Tagout), Hot Works, Confined Spaces Entry and, shortly in 2013, the Code of Practice for
Driving. Dedicated site action plan and e-learning are available in local languages. As first result, fall from
height has moved out of the top three main causes of accidents. With different deadlines, all the safety
operational standards will be implemented by 2015.
Over a population of almost 19 thousands employees, the Group Lost Time Injuries (LTI) frequency rate for
employees and temporary workers, i.e. the number of accident with lost time per million hours worked, was
stable at 6.2, showing no improvement compared to last year but yet a significant 74% decrease since the
launch of the Zero Accident project in 2000. The global number of LTI for employees decreased but the rate
was negatively impacted by the reduced amount of worked hours. In total, the absenteeism of employees due
to safety related causes total 9,292 lost days (less then 0.5% of total absenteeism, stable in the range of 6-7%
of total workable days), while other 2,514 days of employees working on restricted duty were recorded.
In 2012, work-related injuries with lost days were 137 for contractors (133 in 2011). Moreover, the Group
brought up a major enforcement in the reporting system by updating the internal safety database to report the
LTI frequency rate for contractors on site, being among the first companies in the industry sector. Lost Time
Injuries (LTI) frequency rate for contractors was 4.2 (4.0 in 2011). Since 2008, the Group is reporting the Total
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