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 2016, Clariant saw a total of 37 work accidents with more than one workday lost (up from 32 a year before), involving 35 men and 2 women. However, every single accident could be avoided – therefore the target remains: zero accidents. Thanks to AvoidingAccidents@Clariant the accidental downtime could be maintained at a very low level in 2016. The so-called Lost Time Accident Rate (LTAR) of the group was at 0.19 after 0.17 in 2015 and 0.23 in 2014. 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 increased compared to the preceding year. In 2016 the lost days added up to 1955 (including 564 LWDs carried over from 2015), compared to 1161 and 1213 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) increased to 9.8 after 6.2 in the period before.

The Lost Time Accident Rate for contractors was at 0.46 (2015: 0.34). There were no work related fatalities for Clariant employees, supervised workers and contractors in the reporting year.