Chinese APM Terminals beat safety records company-wide

APM TERMINALS has announced a company-wide decline in its lost time injury frequency (LTIF) rate worldwide, but also spectacular results since the "safety culture" scheme was introduced in China a year ago.

Company-wide figures were much improved globally year on year, but Asia-Pacific Region operations outclassed them all, reporting an LTIF of 0.52, against a global company rate of 4.8 LTIF year-to-date - albeit much improved over the rate of 7.7 set the year before.

Dalian, Tianjin and Guangzhou terminals recorded zero injury rates from January to August. Qingdao, Shanghai and Xiamen terminals were "very low, well below the average of both the company's and the industry's standard", said a company statement.

"Lost time injuries" are those resulting in more than a day off, and the LTIF rate is expressed as lost-time injuries per million hours worked.

The scheme aims for zero accidents through a comprehensive safety culture programme to foster a safety mindset and targeting of unsafe acts, said a company statement.

LTIF is calculated using the number of lost time injuries (LTI's) and total number of hours worked. "For APAC at the end of August, we had 0.52 lost time injuries for every million man hours worked," said a company statement.

"Continuously improving our safety performance is part of our long-term strategy and is not in any way minimised or marginalised by other priorities," said APM Terminals health and safety chief Henrik Kristensen.

(Source: www.schednet.com)