A commitment to total safety is the commitment to doing things right.
Air Products has one of the best safety records in the industrial gas and chemical manufacturing industries, and we'd like to improve it even further. But improvement takes a strong individual commitment and constant safety vigilance by every employee. That's why we hold all of our people accountable for working safely and reporting unsafe conditions.
To us, nothing is more important than safety—not production, not sales, not profits. We strive for a "Count on Me" attitude in everything we do.
Safety Data Sheets
2011 Sustainability Report
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Our Safety Performance
Rates of Injury and Work-Related Fatalities
During fiscal 2010:
- We reduced employee recordable injuries by 27 percent, for a rate of 0.46, and contractor recordable injuries by 17 percent, for a rate of 0.52. Employee lost-time injuries (LTIs) decreased 13 percent to 0.19, while the contractor LTI rate of 0.33 increased.
- Sadly, an Air Products driver suffered fatal injuries as a result of a vehicle rollover. We continue to focus on specific plans to eliminate the causes of tragic incidents such as this and improve our performance with respect to serious injuries and incidents.
- Our preventable vehicle accident frequency rate of 1.32 (preventable accidents per one million kilometers driven or 2.00 per one million miles) increased in the Americas and also in Europe due to a change in reporting criteria.
| |
FY 10 |
FY09 |
FY08 |
FY07 |
FY06 |
Employee
Recordables |
99
(0.46) |
131
(0.57) |
160
(0.69) |
174
(0.79) |
213
(0.99) |
Employee
LTIs |
41
(0.19) |
47
(0.20) |
55
(0.24) |
48
(0.22) |
54
(0.25) |
Contractor
Recordables |
43
(0.52) |
51
(0.58) |
45
(0.65) |
52
(0.80) |
65
(0.97) |
Contractor
LTIs |
27
(0.33) |
24
(0.27) |
15
(0.22) |
14
(0.21) |
25
0.37 |
| (Rates shown in parenthesis based on the number of recordable incidents for each 100 full-time employees per year, based on 2,000 hours worked per employee per year) |
| Employee and Contractor Safety Cases (FY’10 vs. FY’09) |
| Employee recordable injuries |
↓27% |
| Contractor recordable injuries |
↓17% |
| Employee lost-time injuries |
↓13% |
Contractor lost-time injuries |
↑11% |
Process Safety
Process safety has been a key component of our EH&S program since the 1970s, and we have evolved into an industry leader in this area.
We believe we have a commitment to ensure:
- Our processes and products are designed to minimize risks from potential process safety incidents
- Our operating facilities and the delivery of our products to customers are conducted in a safe and responsible manner
We’ve developed our own internal training courses in process safety in Process Hazards Analysis, Quantitative Fault Tree Analysis, Consequence Analysis, and HAZOP.
| Air Products supports: |
| AICHe Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) |
American Chemistry Council |
| International Process Safety Group (IPSG) |
Compressed Gas Association |
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