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Corporate Responsibility Report 2006

Health and Safety

Check Our Performance

Health & Safety Performance Overview

Ensure a safe and healthy workplace

  • Reduce Recordable cases rate by 10%
  • Reduce Severity rate by 10%
  • Reach zero cases of ‘significant’ workstation chemical risk by end of 2006
  • Define and initiate new health program for employees

 

Recordable cases rate | LA7 | STHS1 | 9.1 |


ST’s Recordable cases rate for work-related injuries and illnesses increased by 14% in 2006 compared with 2005.

2006 Recordable cases rate = 0.59 Recordable case per 100 employees.

-10% per year using 2002 as baseline

 

Recordable cases rate (Breakdown: industrial/domestic)
| LA7 | STHS11 |



RC Industrial rate decreased by 10% in 2006 compared to 2005

RC Domestic rate increased by 57% in 2006 compared to 2005

 

Breakdown of Recordable cases by type
of Event, Accident or Exposure | LA7 | STHS12 |
%

 

Approximate man hours worked (millions) since last Recordable case of work-related injury or illness*
| LA7 | STHS4 |
      2006
Shenzhen (China)     18
Bouskoura SPG (Morocco)     3
Greater Noida (India)     3
(*) For sites without any Recordable case in 2006

 

Severity rate | LA7 | STHS2 | 9.3 |


ST’s Severity rate for work-related injuries and illnesses decreased by 2% in 2006 compared with 2005.

2006 Severity rate = 8.6 days lost* per 100 employees.


-10% per year using 2002 as baseline

(*) In 2002, OSHA rules changed so that the days-away category now includes both work and non-work days lost due to injury or illness.

 

Injuries/illnesses cost | LA7 | STHS6 |
US$m


ST’s work-related injuries and illnesses estimated cost increased by 15% in 2006 compared with 2005.

Without Action

Savings over 4 years =
14.5 US$m

 

Benchmarking our results

Recordable cases rate benchmark
%


This chart shows ST’s Recordable cases rate compared to US manufacturing and US semiconductor industry.

The source of data* is the US Bureau of Labor Statistics

(BLS) and the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).

*Latest data available

For more information and more details on the indicators
| LA7 | STHS7 | STHS8 | STHS9 | STHS10 |

(See the Additional indicators section)