Hydro Annual Report 2011b

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vIABIlItY perForMAnCe
Organization and work environment
Fatal accidents
Per 100 million hours worked, five-year rolling average
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
03/07
04/08
Hydro employees Contractor employees Total
dwellers. The number of malaria cases are recorded. No epidemics
took place in 2011. Dengue fever occurs from time to
time at several of our operations in Brazil. Employees are
informed about the risk, and treatment is given through the
operations’ health service. HIv/AIDS is of increasing concern
in Brazil. In 2011, a HIv/AIDS center giving information
about how to prevent the disease as well as treatment to the
infected, was opened in Paragominas. Hydro paid for the construction
of the center, which will be operated by the authorities.
Several of our Brazilian sites participate annually in
camaigns to prevent sexually transmitted diseases.
Registered sick leave in Hydro was 3.1 percent in 2011, down
from 3.3 percent in 2010. The rules for sick-leave registration
differ from country to country. Hydro’s sick leave in Norway is
significantly higher than in the rest of the company, on average,
but relatively low compared to the average rate in Norwegian
industry. Sick leave in Norway was 4.4 percent in 2011,
the same as in the previous year. Men’s sick leave was 4.1 percent,
slightly below the 2010 level of 4.2 percent, while women’s
sick leave increased from 5.5 percent in 2010 to 5.7
Total recordable injuries
Per million hours worked
5
4
3
2
1
0
2007
Hydro employees
2008
05/09
2009
06/10
2010
07/11
2011
percent in 2011. Starting in 2012, we will be introducing a
new sick-leave indicator that will be comparable across country
borders.
Safety
Our ambition is to avoid all serious accidents. We work continuously
to avoid damage to property and loss of production.
This applies to all our activities.
Our TRI rate (total recordable injuries per million hours
worked) increased by 2 percent in 2011 following a 27 percent
increase in 2010. Our target was a 28 percent decrease. We had
three fatal accidents. In January 2011, a contractor employee
died from electrical shock during installation work at a new
plant in france. In October, a local contractor at Hydro’s majority-owned
Albras primary aluminium plant in Brazil died from
injuries sustained when hit by a forklift. An operator at Alunorte
died in february 2012 after being severly injured by a spill of
caustic soda in December 2011. Internal investigations were initiated
after all accidents to identify the causes and reduce risk for
recurrences.
Construction of the part-owned Qatalum smelter in Qatar was
performed under the supervision of Hydro’s Projects organization.
Safety was an important part of the project and a low losttime
injury rate (LTI) was a consequence. The number of
contractor hours in projects has in recent years constituted a
large proportion of Hydro’s total contractor hours. As a result,
the LTI rate for contractors has been very low.
In minority-owned operations, we are working through the
board of directors to follow up safety in general and serious incidents
in particular. MRN in Brazil, where Hydro owns 5 percent,
suffered in 2011 a truck accident with two fatalities – one
employee and one contractor.
Our target for 2012 is no fatal accidents and a TRI rate of 2.85,
or a 25 percent decrease from the actual level in 2011.
Lost-time injuries
Per million hours worked
2,5
2,0
1,5
1,0
0,5
0
2007
Hydro employees
2008
Contractor employees
2009
2010
2011