Health and Safety

Health and Safety Performance

2007 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003
Actual Target
Lost-time Injury Frequency 1
Syncrude 0.06 0 0.17 0.07 0.22 0.15
Contractors 0.04 0 0.14 0.04 0.07 0.09
Combined 0.05 0 0.15 0.05 0.11 0.11
Recordable Injury Frequency 1
Syncrude 0.69 0 0.62 0.68 0.99 0.79
Contractors 0.71 0 1.01 0.77 1.15 1.23
Combined 0.70 0 0.85 0.75 1.11 1.10
Employee Fatalities 0 0 0 0 0 0
Number of Lost-time Injuries 1
Syncrude 3 0 8 3 9 6
Contractors 2 0 91 6 8 8
Combined 5 0 17 9 17 14
Number of Recordable Injuries 1
Syncrude 33 0 29 27 41 32
Contractors 33 0 67 100 134 113
Combined 66 0 96 127 175 145
Injury Severity Rate 1
Syncrude 2.29 0 5.17 4.41 3.87 3.87
Contractors 2.02 0 6.59 3.40 1.31 3.96
Combined 2.16 0 6.00 3.64 1.98 3.93
Injury Free Performance
Maximum Hours Between LTIs (millions of hours) 9.74 – 3.98 14.15 8.4 6.7
Employee Health
Temporary Disability Absenteeism (% of Syncrude Workforce) 3.8 – 4.0 3.9 3.8 4.0
New Long-Term Disability (LTD) Cases 21 – 17 14 15 16
Health Centre Visits 2 23,892 – 25,049 3 37,209 37,052 19,000
On Site Workforce
(full-time equivalent employees & contractors) 9,363 – 11,277 18,205 15,806 13,208
  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.