Safety and health

At CSR our goal is zero injuries. We want everyone to return home from work safely everyday and as such safety is embedded into everything we do. As well as caring for the welfare of our employees, contractors and customers, a good safety record increases our efficiency, decreases costs and improves our ability to increase profits.

The CSR SH&E Management System helps site and SH&E managers ensure there are appropriate safety procedures on site. Regular safety workshops and tool box talks are also conducted to ensure all employees at each site are aware of and understand their site specific safety procedures.

Between 2004 and 2007 CSR’s total recordable injury frequency rate (TRIFR) decreased by 33.3%. In YEM08 CSR acquired two glass businesses, since rebranded as Viridian, whose safety practices and awareness of workplace safety were significantly below that of CSR. This resulted in TRIFR increasing by 5.2 from YEM07 levels to 19.8 recordable injuries per one million hours worked.

CSR is actively working with Viridian to implement our rigorous safety policies and reporting procedures and to improve awareness of workplace safety amongst employees, with the aim to decrease our TRIFR during the next year. Our end goal still remains a TRIFR of 0.

For the same reasons, CSR’s severity rate of injuries also increased from YEM07 levels by 16.7 to 52.9 days lost per million work hours. Despite this increase, CSR’s severity rate of injuries has decreased by 61.9% since 2004.