Avoiding occupational accidents is an essential component of Clariant’s production activities. The program »AvoidingAccidents@Clariant« helps to systematically reduce the accident rates and consequences. Significantly decreasing accident rates are the results of this program. In 2015, Clariant saw a total of 32 work accidents with more than one workday lost (down from 44 a year before), involving 32 men. However, every single accident could be avoided – therefore the target remains: zero accidents. Thanks to AvoidingAccidents@Clariant the accidental downtime could be further reduced to a very low level in 2015. The so-called Lost Time Accident Rate (LTAR) of the group sank to 0.17 after 0.23 in 2014 and 0.26 in 2013. LTAR refers to the number of accidents with lost work time of at least one working day per 200 000 operational working hours. Before AvoidingAccidents@Clariant was introduced, this rate was above one.
The lost work days caused by occupational accidents decreased compared to the preceding year. In 2015 the lost day added up to 1161 compared to 1213 and 1152 respectively in the two previous years. The »Lost Workday Rate« (LWDR, loss of work days caused by occupational accidents in relation to 200 000 hours of work) was at 6.2 after 6.4 in the period before.
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2015 |
2014 |
2013 |
2012 |
2011 |
2010 |
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Number of accidents |
32 |
44 |
58 |
77 |
48 |
79 |
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2015 |
2014 |
2013 |
2012 |
2011 |
2010 |
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LTAR1 |
0.17 |
0.23 |
0.26 |
0.33 |
0.28 |
0.45 |
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2015 |
2014 |
2013 |
2012 |
2011 |
2010 |
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Days |
1 161 |
1 213 |
1 152 |
1 431 |
1 115 |
1 188 |
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LWDR1 |
6.2 |
6.4 |
5.6 |
6.2 |
6.5 |
6.8 |
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2015 |
2014 |
2013 |
2012 |
2011 |
2010 |
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Occupational diseases |
1 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
5 |
7 |
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Fatal accidents (including accidents unrelated to work with chemicals, such as road accidents) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
There were no work related fatalities for Clariant employees, supervised workers and contractors in the reporting year.
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Male |
Female |
Total |
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Europe |
19 |
0 |
19 |
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Greater China |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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India |
2 |
0 |
2 |
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Japan |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Latin America |
6 |
0 |
6 |
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Middle East/Africa |
2 |
0 |
2 |
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North America |
2 |
0 |
2 |
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Southeast Asia/Pacific |
1 |
0 |
1 |
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Worldwide |
32 |
0 |
32 |
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Male |
Female |
Total |
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Europe |
3 |
0 |
3 |
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Greater China |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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India |
1 |
0 |
1 |
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Japan |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Latin America |
4 |
0 |
4 |
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Middle East/Africa |
0 |
1 |
1 |
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North America |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Southeast Asia/Pacific |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Worldwide |
8 |
1 |
9 |
The Lost Time Accident Rate for contractors was at 0.34 in 2015.
PwCLTAR
Lost Time Accident Rate (the ratio of the number of occupational accidents where at least one day’s work was lost to every 200 000 hours of work) VIEW ENTIRE GLOSSARY
Lost work days
Lost days in which an employee is absent from work due to a work-related injury or illness. They do not include: 1. the initial day of injury or illness, 2. any days on which the employee would not have worked even though able to work (i. e. holidays, weekends with no scheduled work, etc.). VIEW ENTIRE GLOSSARY
LWDR
LWDR = Lost Workday Rate (the ratio of the number of days lost due to accidents at work to every 200 000 hours of work) VIEW ENTIRE GLOSSARY