Protecting people at work by achieving a zero accident rate.
We promote and maintain safe working environments for our employees and contractors. Safely operated plants and qualified personnel are important to ensure smooth production and trust of our stakeholders.
Solvay's strategy is based on:
- Implementing a culture of safety and pursuing an objective of zero working accidents
- Aiming at the same level of safety for Solvay employees or subcontractors
- Carrying out an analysis of each accident, disseminating knowledge obtained from the investigation and undertaking corrective measures in all comparable units.
Accidents of people at the Group's sites
The frequency rate of occupational accidents with lost time (LTAR) for Solvay’s personnel and contractors’ personnel further decreased, from 3.1 in 2006 to 0.8 (including Rhodia) in 2011. By comparison, the average LTAR for the European chemical industry is currently around 5.
Safety program for contractors
Targets for 2012
- Introducing structured programs to protect the employees against risks at all sites, ensuring the programs extend to subcontractors.
- In pursuit of our objective to achieve a zero rate for accidents, attaining a frequency rate for personal accidents involving stopping work (TF1) of 1.2, and including also the frequency rate for personal accidents not involving stopping work (TF0) in the Management reviews.
- Carrying out structured behavioral safety programs for the most important production sites.
- Making the safety programs for subcontractors general, checking that the Group’s recommendations on the safety of subcontractors are applied, and making the training and safety clauses general in their contracts, with verification of compliance.
- Obtaining OHSAS 18001 certification for safety-management systems at 30 of our production sites.
SOLVAY solutions for protecting people at work
Accident information system: A centralized accident information system for the whole Group, allows monitoring and sharing of accident follow-up, with descriptions of the accidents and of corrective measures taken, with a cross-fertilization of actions between sites.
Preventing accidents: Prevention campaigns and safe training programs are implemented inside the Group for at least 50% of our sites to ensure that everyone adopts safe and vigilant behavior.
Solvay Medexis for better health protection: Medexis is a single computerized system that will bring together methods and data on industrial hygiene and medical monitoring, giving uniform medical surveillance and ensuring uniform prevention against health risks throughout the Group. Health experts and occupational physicians at the various sites will in this way have a comprehensive view of chemical, biological and ergonomic risks, for each workstation, along with risk profiles for every employee.
