Group Management Report Products Safety Environment Human Resources Social Commitment Consolidated Financial Statements 81
Continual Improvement of Occupational Safety
As an employer, it is ALTANA’s duty to offer all its employees
safe workplaces and protect them from potential hazards.
The basis are the various technical and organizational measures
we gear to the respective site’s production conditions
as well as to the laws and regulations in effect where the site
is located. Furthermore, ALTANA relies on a uniform safety
culture with training programs and additional measures.
Group-wide, the Work Accident Indicator (WAI) has
since 2007 been the most important means of observing
occupational safety at the sites and has been steadily
improving
it. It provides information about the number of
occupational accidents and the number of lost work
days, and sets them in relation to the total working hours.
WAI 1 (number of occupational accidents with lost work time of
one day or more per million working hours)
2013 7.22
2014 3.81
2015 4.73
2016 3.94
(Target 2017: 3.00)
WAI 2 (number of occupational accidents with lost work time of
more than three days per million working hours)
2013 4.85
2014 3.19
2015 3.22
2016 2.52
(Target 2017: 2.10)
Target 2016: 3.00
Target 2016: 2.10
WAI 3 (number of lost work days due to occupational accidents per
million working hours)
2013 73.19
2014 51.52
2015 57.04
2016 38.21
(Target 2017: 40.00)
Target 2016: 50.00
The top priority of our safety culture is to reduce the num-
ber of occupational accidents. Consequently, ALTANA’s
Management Board and the EH&S department define upper
limits each year based on our WAI data that apply to all
of our companies.
In the year under review, ALTANA made further progress.
In all three categories, the WAI indicators decreased compared
to the previous year. In total, ALTANA registered fewer
accident-related lost work days. This shows that the technical
and organizational measures are bearing fruit and our
safety record has further improved in all of our companies
and at all of our sites. As in the previous years, there were no
fatal accidents in the company in 2016.
Some sites have had no lost work time due to accidents
for more than six years. Among them are BYK’s and ECKART’s
sites in Tongling and Zhuhai (China), respectively, and
ELANTAS’
site in Pimpri (India). ECKART in Pori (Finland),
ACTEGA Rhenacoat (France), and ACTEGA Foshan (China)
have been accident‑free
for more than three years.
On the other hand, an analysis of the circumstances of
the accidents shows that further efforts are needed. They
have to help raise employees’ awareness of safety further and
to train situation-related behavior. The upper limits that
ALTANA
set itself could not be kept for two of the three indicators.
This applies to WAI 1 (number of occupational