Health and Safety
We are committed to providing a safe working environment for our employees and therefore believe it is important to record near misses, minor and reportable accidents, based on a uniform reporting standard, at all facilities along with total hours worked which together provides an aggregate annualised minor/reportable accident rate per 100 employees.
Worldwide employee headcount for Laird's operations increased from c. 11,189 at the end of 2008, to 12,290 at the end of 2009. The average number of Laird employees in 2009 was 11,765 (2008, 14,718).
Health and Safety KPIs
- total reportable accident rates decreased 25% in 2009 to 0.15/100 employees vs. 0.2/100 employees in 2008, on a 24% decrease in total hours worked
- minor accident rates decreased 53% to 0.19/100 employees
Environmental
We record Greenhouse gas emissions (kg/£1 of revenue), energy consumption (KwH/£1 million of revenue) and waste to landfill sites (kg/£1 million of revenue).
Environmental KPIs
In 2009, while actual CO2 emissions and power consumption fell, reduction in revenue during the global depression meant that our CO2 emissions per £m of sales increased by 9% to 70,379 kilograms per £1m of sales while power consumption relative to sales increased 4% to 181,461 KwH per £1m of sales. The fall in revenue in 2009, combined with increases in waste from transitional activity as we rationalised operations across sites and brought in-house production which had previously been outsourced, also resulted in increases in waste to landfill relative to sales, which increased 45% to 1,610 kilograms total waste to landfill per £1m of sales.
