annUaL rEporT 2008 - Česká rafinérská, as

• In 2008, the Company defended its title of Health Promoting Enterprise for the term of
another three years. The relevant audit focused on promoting health at work, working
conditions, health of the employees and other aspects.
• The Company won the European “Move Europe” campaign. That project focused on
health promotion at work, improving lifestyle, in particular physical activity.
• In September 2008, the Company re-obtained a certificate allowing it to use the logo
of “Responsible Care” for the next four-year period.
• All previous permits allowing smoking in offices and other premises expired in
November 2008. Now smoking is allowed only in official smoking rooms identified as
such.
The year 2008 saw a very positive development regarding the number of accidents. In total,
only seven accidents were recorded over the entire year, three accidents involving our own
employees and four accidents relating to contractors.
Table 2: Accident rate from 2004 to 2008
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Year / Accidents
Company/
Contractors
Company/
Contractors
Company/
Contractors
Company/
Contractors
Company/
Contractors
Accidents - total 12 9 11 16 7
TRIR* 1.8 2.2 2.8 3 2.7
LTI-type accidents (LTI) 3/0 2/0 0/2 2/3 3
MTC-type accidents (MTC) 1/0 2/0 3/0 2/0 2
FAC-type accidents (FAC) 3/5 5/0 6/0 6/3 2
Note: index TRIR – Total Registered Injury Rate is calculated according the Shell methodology, e.g. number of
incidents per 1 million working hours
Manufacturing Activities
In 2008, a total of 7,650 millions metric tons of crude oil were processed, which represented a
record-high volume in the history of the Company in absolute figures.
Key unit reliability also represented a Company performance indicator in 2008, and its
assessment allows making the following statements:
Kralupy:
• availability of the FCC unit was kept above 99.9% for the second year;
• reliability, and/or availability of the SHDS unit, which was again put into operation at
the end of 2007, reached the 100% mark;
Litvínov:
• high utilisation rate of the visbreaking unit and its 100% availability during extended
operating cycles due to its temporary shutdown for de-coking;
• also the utilization rate of the hydrocracking units has been ensured at a high level;
Both entities:
• higher utilization rate of the major units in comparison to the previous year.
ANNUAL REPORT ČESKÁ RAFINÉRSKÁ, a.s., 2008 4