Safeguarding the people that work for the IMI Group is an essential part of our company culture. We also ensure our operations are designed and managed properly to minimise risk to the environment, adjacent communities and other stakeholders.
Health & Safety
During 2011, we worked hard at building on the good performance of recent years. We now have 50 full-time health, safety and environmental professionals across the Group, up 11% on 2010.
Our overall lost time accident rates per 100,000 hours worked have fallen by over 50% since 2008 and in 2011 a further improvement of 20% was achieved. This performance demonstrates the continued clear focus and commitment at all levels across the Group on health and safety matters.
Energy Efficiency
During 2011, we have seen an 8% reduction to 3.3CO2 tonnes per 1,000 hours worked. Our target by the end of 2012 is 3.2 and as such we are now moving in the right direction. The milder winter weather in 2011 helped but the implementation of our energy measures has had a strong impact and will continue to do so into 2012 and beyond. Project 20:20 is set to continue for the foreseeable future – the aim is to identify 20 best practice projects to implement across IMI and to push for a 20% reduction in normalised CO2 emissions at our key sites, which account for 70% of our total energy consumption.
