Health and Safety Performace

  2007
Target
2006
Actual
2006
Target
2005 2004 2003 2002
Lost-time Injury Frequency 1
Syncrude 0 0.17 0 0.07 0.22 0.15 0.12
Contractors 0 0.14 0 0.04 0.07 0.09 0.08
Combined 0 0.15 0 0.05 0.11 0.11 0.10
Recordable Injury Frequency 1
Syncrude 0.50 0.62 0.50 0.68 0.99 0.79 0.57
Contractors 0.50 1.01 1.00 0.77 1.15 1.23 0.97
Combined 0.50 0.85 0.70 0.75 1.11 1.10 0.82
Employee Fatalities 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Number of Lost-time Injuries 1
Syncrude 0 8 0 3 9 6 5
Contractors 0 9 0 6 8 8 5
Combined 0 17 0 9 17 14 10
Number of Recordable Injuries 1
Syncrude 0 29 0 30 41 32 23
Contractors 0 67 0 106 134 113 61
Combined 0 96 0 136 175 145 84
Injury Severity Rate 1
Syncrude 0 5.17 0 4.41 3.87 3.87 2.72
Contractors 0 6.59 0 3.40 1.31 3.96 1.02
Combined 0 6.00 0 3.64 1.98 3.93 1.68
Injury Free Performance
Maximum Hours Between LTIs
(millions of hours)
- 3.98 - 14.15 8.4 6.7 7.0
Employee Health
Temporary Disability Absenteeism
(% of Syncrude Workforce)
- 4.0 - 3.9 3.8 4.0 3.9
New Long-Term Disability (LTD) Cases - 17 - 14 15 16 17
Health Centre Visits 2 - 25,0493 - 37,209 37,052 19,000 18,520
On Site Workforce
(full-time equivalents employees & contractors)  - 11,277 - 18,205 15,806 13,208 10,316

 

1 Recordable injury frequency is a rate that includes all injuries requiring medical attention or which resulted in a worker being absent from work. It is expressed as injuries per 100 person years of work. A lost-time injury is an injury that requires medical attention and results in the worker being absent from work. Injury severity is the average rate of lost workdays per lost-time injury.

2 Includes visits by Syncrude employees and contractors for occupational, non-occupational, and other reasons. Visits are recorded as in-person visits or chart documentation for surveillance or administrative purposes.

3 Decrease due to completion of upgrader expansion project and resulting reduction in onsite workforce.