Health, Safety and Environment
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The health and safety or our employees, contractors, customers, the communities and the environment in which we operate are Hertel’s highest priority. For that reason, since 2012, we have worked towards a standardised and systematic approach of HSE. Safety is the essential part of our operating culture.
The TRIF (Total Recordable Incident Frequency) is an industry benchmark that we will continue to use to compare ourselves with other business in the industry, be it competitor or client. But it is of vital importance that we influence our safety performance proactively. For that reason, Hertel is gradually adding further leading indicators that are helping to identify problem areas up front and achieve continuous improvement, such as the LTIF (Lost Time Injury Frequency) and the Severity Rate (the relative number of days a person is absent due to a Lost Time Injury).
While continuously improving our systematics and reporting, and giving every attention to ensuring any potential hazard is detected early, Hertel’s TRIF ended on 0.39 in 2012, which was a deterioration of 18% with respect to 2011, in which we obtained our best TRIF-ratio to date (0.33). At the same time, however, the LTIF improved by 35% to 0.08.
The Severity Rate showed a huge improvement in 2012 (53%). This indicates that, even though our TRIF has worsened, our reporting is becoming more and more accurate and is supported by management’s attitude to report all incidents. More importantly, relatively less harm was sustained by employees than in the past. Despite this good overall development, it is with great sadness that we have to report that we incurred one accident in which one of our employees lost his life.
The standardised Hertel approach was reinforced by issuing our new Global HSE Policy in 2012 to reflect our vision and commitment throughout the organisation. It is further shaped in the form of an HSE Management Framework; a risk-based system that will help the organisation to structure itself similarly up to a regional level, in order to meet the relevant legal requirements and international standards, as well as meeting our objective of being a zero-harm company.
Increased communication, cooperation and coordination will be instrumental in making this specific Hertel approach more recognisable and more comparable throughout the organisation. In the end, it all comes down to working safely and responsibly with the greatest respect for the health and safety of our employees, contractors, customers, the communities and the environments in which we operate.
The TRIF (Total Recordable Incident Frequency) is an industry benchmark that we will continue to use to compare ourselves with other business in the industry, be it competitor or client. But it is of vital importance that we influence our safety performance proactively. For that reason, Hertel is gradually adding further leading indicators that are helping to identify problem areas up front and achieve continuous improvement, such as the LTIF (Lost Time Injury Frequency) and the Severity Rate (the relative number of days a person is absent due to a Lost Time Injury).
While continuously improving our systematics and reporting, and giving every attention to ensuring any potential hazard is detected early, Hertel’s TRIF ended on 0.39 in 2012, which was a deterioration of 18% with respect to 2011, in which we obtained our best TRIF-ratio to date (0.33). At the same time, however, the LTIF improved by 35% to 0.08.
The Severity Rate showed a huge improvement in 2012 (53%). This indicates that, even though our TRIF has worsened, our reporting is becoming more and more accurate and is supported by management’s attitude to report all incidents. More importantly, relatively less harm was sustained by employees than in the past. Despite this good overall development, it is with great sadness that we have to report that we incurred one accident in which one of our employees lost his life.
The standardised Hertel approach was reinforced by issuing our new Global HSE Policy in 2012 to reflect our vision and commitment throughout the organisation. It is further shaped in the form of an HSE Management Framework; a risk-based system that will help the organisation to structure itself similarly up to a regional level, in order to meet the relevant legal requirements and international standards, as well as meeting our objective of being a zero-harm company.
Increased communication, cooperation and coordination will be instrumental in making this specific Hertel approach more recognisable and more comparable throughout the organisation. In the end, it all comes down to working safely and responsibly with the greatest respect for the health and safety of our employees, contractors, customers, the communities and the environments in which we operate.
