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The Global Safety Department at InBev consists of two experts located at the Group Headquarters who work with the Zone
and plants-based ES officers. The Global Safety department is responsible for:
• Preparation of policies, standards and definition of objectives and KPI’s in the Safety field,
• Coordination of Zone Safety Managers,
• Gathering and spreading of best practices,
• Safety audit policy and auditing,
• Stimulation and development of the Safety component of the VPO program,
• Advice and problem solving in the Safety field,
• Participation in process and product-development activities,
• Safety data gathering, external and internal reporting and global benchmarking,
• Management of Safety aspects of investments,
• Coordination of Safety elements of due diligence activities, and
• Management of by-products destination and revenue.
To ensure straightforward and effective ES management, the Global ES department works in close collaboration with other elements
of Brewery Support, InBev’s Corporate Citizenship team, and other functions such as the People department and Procurement.
Environmental performance is reported in our Environment section.
For more detail on our VPO program, please refer to our Annual Report online.
Fatalities
Three of the six fatal accidents reported this year involved InBev employees, and three involved contractors:
• Kharkiv, Ukraine: a contractor was crushed during a transport operation.
• Wernigerode, Germany and Whenzou, China: a contractor and an employee died in onsite traffic accidents.
• Perm, Russia: an employee died carrying out operations for a contractor for which they were not authorized.
• Omsk, Russia: an experienced engineering employee was electrocuted during a re-start of high voltage equipment.
• Plojesti, Romania: a contractor fell during the construction of a new wastewater treatment plant.
Note on Recording of Accident Rates
Our safety reporting respects International Labor Organization guidelines and reports information above and beyond the legal
requirements of many countries in which we operate. Our safety statistics cover our production plants and first tier logistics
operations. Accidents that happen at the second tier logistics level are not recorded in a consolidated manner. Temporary
workers are included in the figures, but contractors are not.
In 2007 we started measuring our accident rate based on days lost per million hours worked instead of per 1000 full time
equivalent employees. The old and new metrics are shown side by side for 2007 in the charts in the main hard copy version of
our Global Citizenship Report, showing the accident and lost workday rates. There was a very minor change to the scope of
the data across the plants, although this makes no material impact on the reporting.
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