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ArcelorMittal Annual Report 2009Corporate Responsibility 29Investing in our PeopleHealth and Safety: The Journey to ZeroWhatever the economic backdrop,ArcelorMittal’s first priority is to ensure thehighest standards of Health and Safety.The Group’s ‘Journey to Zero’ Healthand Safety improvement processis delivering concrete results – helpingArcelorMittal realize its goal of becomingone of the safest steel companiesin the world.Journey to ZeroAt ArcelorMittal, Health and Safety is thetop priority. The Group’s Health and Safetypolicy aims at reducing the frequencyof accidents and the occurrence of fatalitieson a continuing basis, and underlines thecommitment ArcelorMittal has made tothe wellbeing and safety of all employees– both on and off the job.Journey to Zero, ArcelorMittal’s Healthand Safety improvement process launchedin September 2008, is now the platformfor all measures aimed at improving Healthand Safety in the Group. The focus ison preventative activities and improvedstandards through the effectiveimplementation of best practices – includinghazard identification and risk analysis,accident/incident investigation, criticaltask analysis, follow-up on performanceindicators, system review and much more.PerformanceIn 2009, the Group’s Lost Time InjuryFrequency Rate improved again – falling to1.9 per million hours worked. That compareswith 2.5 in 2008, for both steel and mining.A 20% reduction is again targeted for2010. To leverage best practice and improvethe Health and Safety performance aroundthe Group, 12 top priority sites havebeen identified, for which a specific approachhas been defined to stimulate progress.Benchmarking is of major importancefor the Group since it will help the sitesto make faster progress on their Journeyto Zero. Benchmarking will be supportedby an appropriate multilingual IS/IT tool,of which a first version became availablein December 2009. It will be fully readyand deployed by April 2010.Global Joint Health and Safety AgreementArcelorMittal signed a Global Joint Healthand Safety Agreement, the first of its kind,with its labor unions in June 2008.In 2009, meetings of the Joint Global Healthand Safety Committee were held in LázaroCárdenas, in Mexico, Temirtau, in Kazakhstan(a follow-up visit), Ostrava, in CzechRepublic, and Galati, in Romania. TheCommittee also followed up on all actionsundertaken as a consequence of visitsmade since the start of this cooperation.A questionnaire was launched and evaluatedon how the sites perceive the JointHealth and Safety Committees and theadvantages they can draw from the process.The results were very positive.Health and Safety DayDespite the economic crisis, an enormouseffort was made across the Groupto maintain the momentum of previousHealth and Safety Days. As in prior years,the Group-wide Health and Safety Daywas observed in all of ArcelorMittal’sworldwide operations. It is an occasionto involve all staff in discussing safetyimprovements, new targets and associatedsafety programs at Group as well as plantlevel. The date – April 28 – was chosento coincide with the International LaborOrganization’s World Day for Safety andHealth at Work. Since ‘Leading by Example’is essential, the theme for Health and SafetyDay was ‘Leading the Journey’ – integrating‘Leading by Example’ and ‘Journey to Zero’.Extra emphasis was placed on health andthe sharing of best practices within theGroup-wide health network. The 2010Health and Safety Day will again take placeon April 28 and will reinforce the ‘Leadingby Example’ theme, as well as health topics.Achieving a quick reduction in fatalitiesConscious of the Company’s responsibilityto do all it can to avoid fatalities, newinitiatives were launched in 2009 to speedup the progress on fatality prevention.Implementation of the Fatality PreventionStandards of all sites is now being audited.This approach has been especially adoptedfor the top priority sites while other sitesare required to undertake self-assessmentsbased on questionnaires used Group-wide.The process involves the implementationof appropriate action plans by the sitesto close any gap between the standardsand reality, the dissemination of lessonslearned from fatalities in a closed loopapproach and a detailed investigationof other serious occurrences. A databasefor the follow-up has been created.Lost Time Injury Frequency RateSegment 2009 2008Flat Carbon Americas 2.1 2.1Flat Carbon Europe 1.8 2.4Long Carbon Americas and Europe 1.8 3.4AACIS 1.1 1.2Stainless Steel 1.8 2.2Steel Solutions and Services 3.9 3.8Total Steel 1.8 2.4Total Mines 2.4 3.4TOTAL (Steel and Mines) 1.9 2.5