Health and safety

Safety is a top priority and we have a zero accident vision. We also strive to create a healthy work environment to prevent work related ill-health. Höganäs deploys a preventive and systematic approach to health and safety. The technical and physical aspects of managing risks in our operations are paired with a zero accident culture where behavioural change is key to success.

 

Health and safety, co-workers	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015
Number of recordable injuries*	221	164	201	165	167
Number of lost time injuries**	34	37	39	34	41
Number of high-consequence work-related injuries	0	1	0	2	0
Number of fatalities	0	0	0	0	0
Lost time injury frequency per million hours worked	7.6	8.2	9.7	9.8	11.9
Recordable injury frequency per million hours worked	49.3	36.5	49.8	47.5	48.4
Incident reporting frequency***	63.1	53.0	52.8	53.8	23.2
Sick leave rate	3.7%	3.8%

* Including all reported injuries with or without absence from work and commuting accidents.
** Including injuries and commuting accidents leading to absence from work.
*** Reported risk observations, near misses and accidents per lost time accident.