Health and Safety

AMEC is committed to the protection of its employees and all those who may be affected by its undertakings. The effective management of health and safety risk is of primary importance to prevent harming people and loss of assets or a negative impact on the environment.

Providing a healthy and safe working environment for our employees is of paramount importance to AMEC, just as the safe delivery of projects is important to our customers.

We manage health and safety with the same degree of expertise and to the same standards as other core business activities. This is achieved through the setting of an effective health and safety Policy and ensuring effective leadership and organisational arrangements are in place, to effectively deliver this Policy. Performance is regularly reviewed against agreed targets and objectives to facilitate continuous improvement.

Despite achieving an improvement in lost time injuries during 2007, tragically, an AMEC employee was killed following a fall from height. No accident is acceptable to us and we will continue to strive for excellence in our safety performance.

To find out more about AMEC's health and safety performance and to read case studies about our health and safety activities during 2007, go to the related documents navigation box on the right-hand side of this page.

Performance Indicators

Indicator	Target	Actual	Achieved
Number of fatalities	0	1	no
Lost time incident frequency rate	10% improvement on previous best performance	Improvement on target	yes
Total recordable case frequency rate	10% improvement on previous best performance	Target not met	no
Number of enforcement actions	0	0	yes
Number of occupational ill health	0	0	yes
Sickness absence per employee	Improvement from 2006	3.19	yes
Percentage of employees within an OHSAS 18001 compliant Health and Safety Management System	100%	100%	yes