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Safety at Work
In 2008 MOL Group continued to decrease the number of work-related injuries among its employees: the number of Lost Time Injuries (LTI) dropped by 35% from 37 to 24. This means a nearly equivalent drop in relative terms as well: the frequency of LTI cases measured against one million worked hours (an indicator called LTIF) diminished to 0.97 from 1.52, reaching its lowest ever level and being better than our target of 1.0 set for 2008.
Fortunately we have no work-related fatalities among our own staff to report. However, four fatalities happened to MOL Group contractors and related third parties. The causes were due to the violations of safety rules and a road accident. We deeply regret the loss of these lives.
We further improved our performance in terms of contractor safety: our maintenance contractors can pre-qualify on-line on MOL website. An auditing system was also developed to validate compliance with MOL Group HSE requirements: with the help of an internationally recognised external auditor we classify contractors into Basic - Advanced - Excellent level compliance groups (excluding those not meeting the requirements).
We want to ensure that traffic accidents are prevented rather than managed. To reduce the risks our colleagues face on the roads, we have arranged defensive theoretical and practical driving trainings with consecutive personal evaluations for those employees whose work requires regular driving. By the end of 2008 approximately 1,000 employees of MOL Group were trained in this program. In addition we create the possibility of the supplemental driving courses, such as: slippery road, off-road, drive at night. As a result of our efforts, we decreased our road accident rate (RAR) to 1.6 (number of accidents per 1 million km driven).
