Annual report 2007 - Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works ...

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The industrial and occupational safety management system is part of the general system of the Company
management. It helps manage risks in the field of industrial and occupational safety.
OJSC MMK has adopted the Industrial and Occupational Safety Policy according to which the Company’s
strategic objective is to ensure safe conditions of work, industrial safety for hazardous facilities and technically
acceptable and economically sound risk levels.
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The main activities in the field of industrial and occupational safety in 2007 were as follows:
planning and implementation of measures focused on increasing the safety level at hazardous facilities;
timely identification of negative factors lowering the safety level of hazardous facilities;
forecasting of hazards, possible negative developments having an impact on the status of the main factors that
determine industrial safety;
taking actions for the prevention of emergencies, incidents and injuries.
In June of 2007 the industrial and occupational safety management system was audited by a leading
independent certification body, Bureau Veritas Quality International, for conformity to the international standard
OHSAS 18001:1999.
In 2007 MMK implemented 80 measures for the improvement of industrial and occupational safety. Working
conditions were improved for 4,126 employees.
In 2007 OJSC MMK spent USD 40.46 m on industrial and occupational safety. . The share of such expenses in
the production costs was 0.75% (compared to 0.74% in 2006).
Industrial Injuries’ Statistics
# Description 2003 200 200 200 2007
1 Number of recorded accidents 35 27 21 19 28
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Number of injuries including:
fatal injuries
severe injuries
group injuries
36 28 22 33 32
6 2 4 4/11* 4/5*
10 14 6 4 12
1 1 1 1 2
3 Injury incidence rate 1.040 0.880 0.770 0.720 1.069
4 Injury severity rate 24.00 46.64 55.22 55.75 47.04
5 Working days lost 1, 022 1, 026 1,215 1, 115 1, 082
* number of accidents/number of persons affected