Statistics & Facts

Over the past 4 years Rowecord have seen a significant stepped improvement in its health and safety performance. The catalyst for this improvement was the launch of the SMART8 behaviour change programme in 2005.

ALL INJURY ACCIDENT FREQUENCY RATES

AFR 2004

AFR 2005

AFR 2006

AFR 2007

AFR 2008 YTD

125

93

84

42

0

(per 1,000,000 manhours worked)

Rowecord believe that measurement of performance is key to sustaining continuous improvement in all aspects of the business. Through the launch of its SMART8 behaviour auditing programme Rowecord have been able to develop an active monitoring programme which aims at identifying weaknesses in our health and safety system  before they develop into incidents.

Rowecord have also launched several themed health and safety campaigns under the umbrella of SMART8. Since the launch of an eye safety awarenss campaign in 2006 Rowecord have seen a 50% reduction in its all injury accident frequency rate.

LOST TIME ACCIDENT FREQUENCY RATE COMPARISON

Manufacturing of Metal Products

Engineering Construction

Rowecord Engineering

1041

1008

833

(number of accidents x 100,000 / average number of employees)

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