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ArcelorMittal South Africa
Annual Report 2010
Safety, health and wellness continued
This represents a significant improvement from the previous
year’s LTIFR of 2.6 and exceeds our goal of attaining an LTIFR
of 1.9.
Working from recommendations
arising out of the exercise, we have:
• constructed a dedicated crisis
centre;
• appointed a crisis team and team
leader;
• identified at least two assembly
points per area and, where
possible, three;
• drawn up maps depicting these
assembly points for display in each
area; and
• drawn up the duties and
responsibilities of the medical
station.
Journey to Zero
The global Journey to Zero (JTZ)
programme, which engages all
employees to work towards the
common goals of zero fatalities
and virtual elimination of lost time
injuries, continues to be rolled out
across the company. It is supported
in large part by our other initiatives
to improve safety performance.
As at the end of December 2010,
22 of 55 JTZ projects were reported
as complete. JTZ assessments are
scheduled for the first quarter of
2011 to verify roll-out and/or
implementation actions. During the
assessment sessions good practices
will be identified for roll-out amongst
the plants.
Reviewing our performance
against key safety
indicators
Lost time injury frequency rate
We are extremely pleased to report
that our efforts to secure the safety
of our employees are paying off.
We finished 2010 with no fatalities
for the first time in over 30 years.
Our key safety indicator, Lost Time
Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR), was
1.61 injuries per million man-hours
worked for the year, a record for
us. This represents a significant
improvement from the previous
year’s LTIFR of 2.6 and exceeds our
goal of attaining an LTIFR of 1.9.
Vanderbijlpark Works produced their
best ever safety performance of
1.45 and Newcastle Works nearly
equalled their 2007 record of
1.25 with an LTIFR of 1.26 for the
year. Safety also improved at our
Cummulative Lost time Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR) vs
Restricted Work Day Case Ratio (RWDCR)
4
3.5
3
2.5
2
1.5
1
0.5
0
2007 2008 2009
RWDCR
LTIFR
Jan 2010
Feb 2010
Mar 2010
Apr 2010
other operations. Pretoria Works
contractors worked for more than
2 050 days without a lost time
injury and over 1 000 days without
a recordable injury. Saldanha,
Vereeniging, Vanderbijlpark and
Newcastle Works all managed more
than one million man-hours without
a lost time injury.
Maintaining this improvement
will require ongoing vigilance.
Our focus on the process safety
management programme will mean
increasing safety leadership visibility,
maintaining the discipline required
to conduct in-depth investigations
and ensure corrective measures are
implemented and increasing shared
vigilant supervision. We will continue
to improve the training we offer
all employees and contractors and
ensure all incidents are reported.
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