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Ensure the best health and safety

 

Progress on our promise

Electrolux will be the leader on health and safety in the appliance industry, wherever we operate in the world.

The roadmap to 2020 Next steps
Continue to reduce our global injury rate (TCIR) by at least 5% every year.
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Attain safety certification for our operations across the world.
  • To be aligned with the launch of new ISO 45001 standard.
Integrate the Group’s safety program into new acquisitions within three years of purchase. 
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​​ On track  

​​ Additional effort is required  

​​ Off track  

​​ Work has not yet begun  

How we measure progress

  1. Global injury rate (TCIR)
  2. Lost days due to injury (LCIR)

We continued our efforts to ensure the safety of our people, with ambitious goals and creative ways of engaging our teams. The results speak for themselves. 

Since 2012 our incident rate has declined by 49% across the Group.

First-class health and safety practices are an essential step for building trust among employees, their families and local communities. Our work with OHS (Occupational Health & Safety) focuses primarily on the safety of workers in production and also raises awareness of the health and wellbeing of office workers.

Our current global injury rate (TCIR) of 0.6 compares favorably with other well-known benchmarks, as reported in publicly available sources. 72% of our manufacturing sites have achieved a rate below 1.0. Even though our performance is already high, we have an ambitious target in place: to reduce our global injury rate (TCIR) by at least 5% every year.

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this promise

Units managed through our Global Industrial Operations have a safety program in place. This year they focused on:

  1. Transferring our thinking to suppliers.
    We have created a global process to address contractors working at Electrolux facilities with training and risk evaluation. This started in 2016 and will be completed in 2017.
  2. Defining and following up a First Aid Injury Rate (FAIR) target for each manufacturing site. 
    The FAIR indicator is calculated for factories and followed up monthly. The trend in 2016 indicated an 49% improvement compared with 2015.

The challenges

  • The most significant health and safety risks occur in warehouses, where many employees are contractors.
  • Our ambition is to apply the same OHS management system throughout the Group and among contractors by 2017.

 

LA6X - Type of injury and rates of injury, occupational diseases, lost days, and absenteeism, and total number of work-related fatalities, by region

  2016 2015 2014 2013 2012
Number of work-related injuries  247 386 401 434 497
Injury rate1 0.6 0.9 0.9 1 1.1
Number of workdays lost due to occupational injuries 3,814 4,729 3,088 5,677 10,991
Lost day rate1  9 11 7 13 25
Number of work-related fatalities 0 1 0 0 0

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2016 Number of work-related injuries  Injury rate1 Number of workdays lost due to occupational injuries Lost day rate1 Number of work-related fatalities
Asia Pacific  5 0,06 0 0 0
EMEA 75 0,54 1,991 13 0
Latin America 39 0,50 608 8 0
North America 128 0,90 1,215 9 0
Group Total 247 0,6 3,814 8 0

1 per 200,000h