Health
The Group's absence due to sickness rate shall be no higher than 4.0 per cent by the end of 2013 and no unit shall have an absence due to sickness rate of more than 4.5 per cent.
The absence due to sickness rate has fallen from 4.7 per cent in 2008 to 4.0 per cent in 2010. Low absence due to sickness rates and accident frequencies can generally be linked to high productivity and motivation levels among employees.
Safety
The Boliden Group has adopted a policy of zero tolerance towards accidents at work, which means that all units shall endeavour to remain accident-free, every month.
The accident frequency shows an increase from 5.5 per one million hours worked in 2009 to 8.2 in 2010. The increase is due partly to a general rise in less serious accidents and partly to the serious incident that occurred at Aitik in December. It was feared that six employees and two contractors had been exposed to hazardous doses of x-ray radiation and they were placed under medical observation for several days. The accident was subsequently classified by the authorities as an incident, i.e. it was rated at 2 on the 7-grade INES scale (where 1 is an anomaly and 7 is a major accident).
Accident frequency
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Absence due to sickness
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| LTI is the number of accidents leading to absence from work per one million hours worked |
The goal is for the Group to have a combined sick-leave rate of no more than 4 per cent.
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