H4. Health and safety

Essity’s Group target is to decrease the accident frequency rate by 50% in the 2014–2020 period. In 2017, the accident frequency rate declined by 6% year-on-year to 3.8 (4.1, 5.5, 6.2) and 38% compared with the base year of 2014. Unfortunately, a contractor was fatally injured during 2017 in a fire at our factory in Svetogorsk in Russia, which confirms the need for a relentless focus on safety activities.

Group-wide key performance indicators (KPIs)

In recent years, Essity has worked intensively to systematize and improve its safety work. Essity uses the following Group-wide KPIs:

  • Number of Lost Time Accidents (LTA): accidents that result in an employee missing the next regularly scheduled work day or shift.
  • Days Lost due to Accidents (DLA): number of work-days lost due to an LTA.
  • Accident Severity Rate (ASR): The DLA / LTA.
  • Frequency Rate (FR): LTA / 1,000,000 hours worked.
  • Incidence Rate (IR): LTA / 200,000 hours worked.

Health and Safety, key figures 1)

 

2017

2016

2015

2014

1)

100% cover for production facilities and excluding sales and administration offices.

Average headcount

27,127

24,949

24,207

23,808

Lost Time Accidents, LTA

210

207

281

311

Contractor Lost Time Accidents, CLTA

34

33

33

38

Days Lost due to Accidents, DLA

4,877

5,201

6,378

5,723

Accident Severity Rate, ASR

23.2

25.1

22.7

18.4

Accident Frequency Rate, FR (LTA/1,000,000 WH)

3.8

4.1

5.5

6.2

Incident Rate, IR (LTA/200,000 WH)

0.8

0.8

1.1

1.2

Fatalities (employees)

0

1

0

0

Number of zero-accident sites

26

19

17

17

Number of sites included in reporting

85

72

70

68

Sickness absence

Using information supplied by 15,962 employees, average sickness absence in 2017 was 4.86%. The corresponding figures for 2016 and 2015 were 4.88% (16,258 employees) and 4.95% (16,367) respectively.

Accident Frequency Rate (FR)

Accident Frequency Rate (FR) (bar chart)

1) Lost Time Accidents.

Accident Severity Rate (ASR)

Accident Severity Rate (ASR) (bar chart)

1) Lost days in relation to the number of accidents.