Health & Safety Report 2018

HEALTH & SAFETY REPORT 2018

2. Key Findings

Personal Safety

Process Safety

• The downward trend in reportable incidents continues, with 255 such occurrences in 2017 - 67% lower than in 2000-01. This is the lowest on record. • Hydrocarbon releases were the single largest category of reportable incidents (39% of the total), followed by dropped objects (26%). • The trend in RIDDOR reportable hydrocarbon releases since 1996 remains downward. There are fewer significant releases than in any previous year. • Major releases have been reduced since 2012, but have plateaued at around 2 per year in the past few years. • The installation average safety-critical maintenance backlog continues to decrease year-on-year.

• There were no work-related fatalities in 2017.

• The three-year rolling average non-fatal injury rate continued to decrease. This measure is based on the number of over-seven-day and specified injuries.   • Fractures were the most common type of reportable injury, followed by strains and sprains. • The most common cause of injury was slips, trips, and falls on the same level, 37% of the total.

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