45 Global Safety Management Team improves safety The AAK Global Safety Management Team, consisting of safety professionals from sites in Europe, South America and North America, set some ambitious safety goals for 2014. The key goal was to reduce the lost-time incident rate – the measure of injuries that require time away from work – to 1.1 from 1.2 per 200.000 working hours. Due to the hard work of the entire team the rate was reduced globally to 0.5 for the year. This was a reduction of more than 50 percent. The team developed creative strategies and programs to ensure our workers are the safest in the industry. Overall, every site reduced their lost-time incident rate or stayed at zero incidents. The largest reductions were made at our two UK sites. Our sites in Belgium and Brazil were added in 2014 and both had no lost-time incidents. Our site in Port Newark, New Jersey surpassed five years without a lost-time incident during the year. Port Newark surpassed five years without a lost-time incident On September 19, 2014 the AAK Port Newark facility passed the five-year mark without a lost-time incident. Earlier that year it also passed the 1,000,000 hours worked without a lost-time incident mark. Thanks to the dedication of the employees and the emphasis on the safety-quality-production mindset, the Port Newark staff worked safely while handling the challenges of two hurricanes and several major construction projects. Worker safety takes precedence in every job completed at the plant while the entire safety structure has been elevated to the highest AAK standards. In connection with the five-year mark, site Manager Nigel Glover noted that “Safety is always topic number one during every meeting and that helps keep the safety mindset front and center. Employees are encouraged to bring up safety topics and the quickest resolution to the issue becomes the top priority”. Earlier in 2014, both AAK’s site in Hillside, New Jersey and the one in Louisville, Kentucky passed the one-year threshold leaving every AAK US facility over that milestone. This is the first time that this has been accomplished.
AAK - Sustainability Report 2014/2015
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