AMEC Sustainability Report 2004

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Incident rates

AMEC has adopted OSHA (the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration) standards for the calculation of frequency rates for Lost Time Incidents and Total Recordable Cases.

The rates across AMEC's operations in 2004, compared with 2003, are as follows:

	Hours Worked (000's)		LTIFR Number of lost timeincidents per 200,000hours worked		TRCFR Total number ofrecordable cases per200,000 hours worked
	2004	2003	2004	2003	2004	2003
Uk²	62006	72634	0.82	0.80	1.49	1.50
Continental Europe³	50657	38807	1.63	2.29	3.92	5.00
North America	19987	22273	0.64	0.75	2.19	2.19
Asia Pacific	1143	3190	0.52	1.47	3.15	2.02
Iraq⁴	938	-	0.43	-	0.85	-
All Amec	134731	136904	1.09	1.23	2.51	2.62

²Includes AMEC Group Limited, AMEC Spie Rail (UK) Limited, AMEC Investments and AMEC plc.

³Includes AMEC SPIE SA and AMEC SPIE Rail (except AMEC SPIE Rail UK).

⁴Includes AMEC employees and direct AMEC sub-contractors. Includes accidents that are task-related or related to living facilities but not security-related incidents.

As a benchmark, the OSHA published rates for the US in 2003, the latest year for which figures are available:

	LTIFR Number of lost time incidents per 200,000hours worked	TRCFR Total number ofrecordable cases per200,000 hours worked
Services - Repair & Maintenance	1.4	4.2
Construction	2.6	6.8
All Industry	1.5	5.0

SHE Training

AMEC's SHE management framework requires all business units to identify the SHE training required at each level and function within the business and to monitor the achievement of the required training. The SHE training rate is one way of monitoring this, by calculating the number of days of SHE training received per employee across the business.

For the purposes of this indicator, "SHE training" includes all training primarily carried out for establishing SHE competence but does not include induction training and toolbox talks.

Results for 2004 are as follows:

	SHE Training Rate Days per employee
	2004	2003
UK	1.01	0.71
Continental Europe⁴	1.25	Not available
North America	0.77	0.61
Asia Pacific	0.30	2.11
All Amec	1.07	0.70

⁴Excludes AMEC SPIE Oil & Gas, Germany and Morocco, and AMEC SPIE Rail Germany, Belgium & Italy.

On average each employee received just over one day of SHE training during 2004 compared with just over two-thirds of a day in 2003.

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