5. Ensure the best health and safety

Progress on our promise

Electrolux will be the leader on health and safety in the appliance industry, wherever we operate in the world.

On track  

Additional effort is required  

Off track  

Work has not yet begun  

How we measure progress

1. Global injury rate (TCIR)
2. Lost days due to injury (LCIR)

We continued our efforts to ensure the safety of our people, with ambitious goals and creative ways of engaging our teams. The results speak for themselves. 

Since 2005 our incident rate has declined by 72% across the Group.

First-class health and safety practices are an essential step for building trust among employees, their families and local communities. Our work with OHS (Occupational Health & Safety) focuses primarily on the safety of workers in production and also raises awareness of the health and wellbeing of office workers.

Our current global injury rate (TCIR) of 0.9 compares favorably with other well-known benchmarks, as reported in publicly available sources. Almost 65% of our manufacturing sites have achieved a rate below 1.0. Even though our performance bar is already high, we have an ambitious target in place: to reduce our global injury rate (TCIR) by at least 5% every year.

Units managed through our Global Industrial Operations have a safety program in place. This year they focused on:

1. Transferring our thinking to suppliers.
   We have created a global process to address contractors working at Electrolux facilities with training and risk evaluation. This will be rolled out in 2016.
2. Defining and following up a First Aid Injury Rate (FAIR) target for each manufacturing site.
   The FAIR indicator is calculated for factories and followed up monthly. The trend in 2015 indicated an 18% improvement from 2104.

We are saddened to report that one Electrolux employee lost his life following an accident in a production facility in Rosario, Argentina, in February 2015. Family members and plant staff were supported during this difficult time. A Group investigation identified the cause and made suggestions to improve procedures. These were shared across the company.

The challenges

• The most significant health and safety risks occur in warehouses, where many employees are contractors.

Our ambition is to apply the same OHS management system across the Group and among contractors by 2016.

The approach

All employees in production are covered by a reporting system to track incidents and hours worked. Employees within Global Industrial Operations are covered by an OHS Safety Management System. Electrolux Professional, consisting of some 2,600 employees (7% of total employees), has its own program aligned with Group ambitions and performance indicators.

All manufacturing sites have central safety committees that include workers and worker representatives. All employees receive safety training at induction and annually, tailored to their function. Incidents are reported daily to site management, and to sector heads on a monthly basis. Performance is disclosed in group-wide data collection. Safety audits of all manufacturing sites have been split into two activities: a behavioral audit, carried out by line managers on a monthly basis, and a safety audit carried out by OHS engineers. Global Safety Day, which raises awareness among employees and demonstrates management commitment to safety, is held every year for Global Industrial Operations.

As of 2015, we monitor contractor TCIR data, starting with warehouses and distribution centers managed through Global Industrial Operations.

LA6X -Type of injury and rates of injury, occupational diseases, lost days, and absenteeism, and total number of work-related fatalities and by region.

1) per 200 000h