Safety

The safety of employees and those using our products is critical to our business and an important responsibility. Effective safety management through identifying, managing and mitigating safety risks is a key element of developing a Total Performance culture.

2009 OBJECTIVES Achieved
Senior leaders each to undertake three safety audits, and flow-down training and requirement to conduct safety reviews to two levels below the Executive Committee.
Minimum of Level 3 on the Safety Maturity Matrix, with 60% of major manufacturing sites progressed to Level 4 by the end of 2009.
Incident rate in 2009 to show at least a 10% improvement over 2008 and, for sites with significantly worse than best in class statistics, improvement targets to be set consistent with achieving best in class in 2011.
Incident rate targets to be set by businesses at a level reflecting the progress required to achieve the 2011 target of best in class.

2010 OBJECTIVES

Continue the progress towards a world class level of safety performance:

  • All businesses and BAE Systems controlled sites of over 150 personnel to attain level 4 of SMM, and those currently at Level 4, to show, through audit, progress towards achieving our target to achieve level 5 by end 2011
  • Deliver at least 20% improvement in Lost Working Days incident rate from year 2009 level.

LOST WORK DAY CASE INCIDENT RATE (PER 100,000 EMPLOYEES)

The Company targeted a 10% improvement in the gap between 2008 performance and the best in class target of 100 per 100,000 employees. The targeted improvement was exceeded in 2009; the improvement in lost work day case incident rate from 2008 was 29%, which equates to a 33% improvement in the gap to our target of best-in-class. In 2009 our incident rate reduced to 562 recorded injuries per 100,000 employees.

View the KPI’S in our
Annual Report 2009

MAJOR INJURIES RECORDED



The actual number of major injuries has increased during 2009, but the normalised rate (major injuries recorded per 100,000 employees) has decreased. This reflects the increased size of the Company, demonstrating an overall improved trend.

Further to the incorporation of Surface Ships as a wholly owned business in 2009, 2008 data for major injuries recorded has been rebased to include their 2008 accident data. This exercise has been undertaken to allow comparable data for 2009.

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MAJOR INJURIES RECORDED (PER 100,000 EMPLOYEES)



Further to the incorporation of Surface Ships as a wholly owned business in 2009, 2008 data for major injuries recorded per 100,000 employees has been rebased to include their 2008 accident data. This exercise has been undertaken to allow comparable data for 2009.

2009 CAUSE OF MAJOR INJURIES RECORDED (NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES INJURED)

The main causes of major injury in 2009 across the company continue to be slips, trips and falls on the same level, accounting for 44% of recorded major injuries. Several of our businesses have launched campaigns to tackle these incidents by, for example, encouraging employees to ‘spot it, report it’ – to act when they see potential hazards. Other causes of major injury include falls from height (18%), struck by moving, including flying/falling object (13%) and injured while handling, lifting or carrying (8%). Root cause analysis of types of incidents will be carried out to identify common global issues and solutions.

Slips, trips or falls on the same level 34 44%
Fall from height 14 18%
Struck by moving, including flying/falling object 10 13%
Injured while handling, lifting or carrying 6 8%
Contact with moving machinery 4 5%
Strike against something fixed or stationary 4 5%
Exposure to, or contact with, a harmful substance 2 3%
Road Traffic Accident 2 3%
Exposure to fire 1 1%

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