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)
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2017 |
2016 |
2015 |
2014 |
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Average headcount |
27,127 |
24,949 |
24,207 |
23,808 |
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Lost Time Accidents, LTA |
210 |
207 |
281 |
311 |
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Contractor Lost Time Accidents, CLTA |
34 |
33 |
33 |
38 |
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Days Lost due to Accidents, DLA |
4,877 |
5,201 |
6,378 |
5,723 |
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Accident Severity Rate, ASR |
23.2 |
25.1 |
22.7 |
18.4 |
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Accident Frequency Rate, FR (LTA/1,000,000 WH) |
3.8 |
4.1 |
5.5 |
6.2 |
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Incident Rate, IR (LTA/200,000 WH) |
0.8 |
0.8 |
1.1 |
1.2 |
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Fatalities (employees) |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
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Number of zero-accident sites |
26 |
19 |
17 |
17 |
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Number of sites included in reporting |
85 |
72 |
70 |
68 |
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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)
1) Lost Time Accidents.
Accident Severity Rate (ASR)
1) Lost days in relation to the number of accidents.