Our Zero Harm safety initiatives focus on preventing, reducing or eliminating injuries.
We have detailed safety management systems, including policies and procedures with monitoring and compliance mechanisms. We have also developed procedures to report and record hazard management, incidents, near misses and system failures. Implementing procedures to correct these actions have been important factors in the success of Zero Harm.
We promote Zero Harm safety values through a range of safety activities, and continuously report on these leading indicators. Leading indicators hold key information enabling us to develop preventative measures.
Examples of our leading safety indicators are:
- Zero Harm STOP observations
- Documented safety Toolbox Talks
- Workplace inspections
- System audits
- Zero Harm Days
- Near miss reports
- Hazards identified
To track and report on incidents, near misses, hazards and risks in a consistent way that allows for greater analysis of trends, we have developed an online incident reporting and risk management system. This online safety management system is based on ISO9001 and AS 4801 standards.
Leading safety record
We monitor lagging indicators such as Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR), which measures the number of injuries that result in an employee being absent from work for one or more whole shifts per million exposure hours.
Year-on-year, our safety record is consistently in the top five of the resources industry.
Our LTIFR (lost time injury frequency rate per million hours worked) in calendar-years 2007 and 2008 was respectively 1.5 and 1.6, which puts BIS in the top five safest organisations in the resources industry (as compared to Citigroup's most recent Safety Spotlight report that lists 2007 and 2008 LTIFR from organisations in the resources industry).
Over the years, we have built a reputation based on its best practice safety performance in the industry.
| LTIFR | LTI | Zero Harm observations* | |
| 2008/09 | 1.0 | 3 | 19,393 |
| 2007/08 | 2.1 | 7 | 17,232 |
| 2006/07 | 1.2 | 4 | 13,962 |
| 2005/06 | 2.3 | 6 | 8,597 |
| 2004/05 | 1.5 | 5 | 7,021 |
* Gradually the focus is moving from the quantity of the Zero Harm observations to a more qualitative approach. |
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