Our surveyors, inspectors and auditors sometimes face tough conditions when
working in the field. Compromising on safety is not an option. We continued
to focus on training and development of new training programmes in 2009
as a means to better manage the health and safety of our own employees.
SaFety and health training. Incident and hazard reporting and risk assessments form the basis for focusing the safety and health training. A basic safety and health e-learning course module for all employees was developed and published in 2009.
As a safety induction, all newly employed surveyors in 2009 attended a tailor-made course for DNV surveyors. The two-and-a–
half-day course consists of half a day of theoretical introduction followed by two days of practical training at a specialised training centre. The practical safety training for new employees takes place at established training centres in Korea, Norway and three locations in China. We are also looking at
potential training centres in other regions to provide the training for experienced surveyors on a more local basis.
Refreshment training for experienced surveyors consists of a half-day e-learning SHE induction, followed by one and a half days of practical safety training at a pro-fessional training centre. Due to too high mortality rate in confined space activities experienced in the maritime industry, the focus on confined spaces has been intensified and a new training module was developed and rolled out for our surveyors.
Modules were also developed for working at heights, transfer at sea and other high risk operations.
pandemic preparedneSS. On 11 June, the World Health Organisation raised its alert to level 6, stating the world was at the start of an influenza pandemic. In such a situation, understanding the prevention and control of infection is essential for the well-being and safety of the staff, family and community. Fortunately, through our BioRisk services, we have expertise and experience in the area of infection control and biorisk management. With this back-ground, a Pandemic Preparedness Plan that is applicable to all parts of DNV was developed.
The plan focuses on ensuring clear communi-cation with staff, reducing the chances that employees become infected and also reduc-ing the chances of all employees and mission-critical staff becoming infected at the same time. An Influenza A (H1N1) intranet page was established and updated with recommen-dations and requirements as the pandemic developed and better knowledge about this particular influenza was obtained.
Additionally, biorisk specialists offered Practical Infection Control in the Workplace presentations through Office Live Meetings to units around the world.
Norwegian operations reported that short-term sick leave in August-November was between 0.5 and 1.1% higher than in the same period in the four previous years.
During the same period, 77 employees report-ed symptoms of the new Influenza A (H1N1) to the Company Health Service in Norway.
Most of the other countries reported that the impact from the new A (H1N1) influenza was insignificant with very few cases of ill-ness, as opposed to what had been predicted.
lost time accident:
Accident resulting in injury to people and work absence
>= 8 hrs injury accident:
Accident resulting in injury to people and work absence
< 8 hrs
occupational health issue:
Work environment conditions (including psychosocial work environment and musculo- skeletal load) exposure to which over a period of time results in illness to people, or a work activity resulting in illness to people.
lta (lost time accident frequency):
Number of Lost Time Accidents / million worked hrs
Definition of terms used in the statistics:
sai (severity accident index):
No of days absence due to Lost Time Accidents / million worked hrs iaf (injury accident frequency):
Number of Injury Accidents / million worked hrs accident absence rate (%):
(Accident absence / number of worked hrs)
*100 total sickness absence rate (%):
((Accident+Sickness absence) / Number of worked hrs)
*100
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Fatal accidents 0 0 1 1 0
Lost time accidents 27 32 41 34 43
Injury accidents 48 61 66 85 82
Occupational health issues, with absence 10 10 14 13 15
Near accidents 104 107 93 137 175
LTA 2.3 2.8 3.1 2.1 2.5
SAI 32.8 24.3 50.8 23.0 26.1
IAF 4.2 5.3 4.9 5.2 4.8
Accident absence rate (%) 0.03 0.02 0.04 0.02 0.02
total sickness absence rate (%) 2.3 2.0 2.0 1.9 2.1
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number of inCidents per reGion / million Hours worked safety and HealtH inCidents statistiCs (for all of DNV)
Americas Asia / Oceania Europe Middle East Nordic / Baltic Norway Lost Time
travel SaFety. Visits to customer sites and offices are an important part of the execution of our services and sometimes require travel to challenging destinations.
The principles for the assessment and approval of business travels to high risk areas have been improved. A safety training course focusing on travelling to geograph-ical areas suffering from terrorist threats, high crime rates, serious epidemics or natural disasters was held at the Høvik office in 2009. As car driving is seen as one of the significant risks faced by our employees, defensive driver training is being imple-mented in large parts of the organisation.
SaFety programmeS in china. The Chinese shipbuilding industry has experi-enced very aggressive growth in recent years.
In 2009, our regional management team in Greater China decided to repeat its pro-gramme of visiting and evaluating safety conditions at all shipyards in China where DNV has operations. The initial programme, which ran from September 2007 to February 2008, aimed to increase the focus on safety at production sites. A total of 29 site tours
were held during the seven-month period to assess local conditions and discuss daily challenges with surveyors at the sites.
Together, surveyors and evaluators identi-fied the main hazards at each site and agreed on corrective or preventative actions for implementation. Specific activities included (1) supplying standard Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to all DNV operations, (2) providing training in ‘confined spaces’
and ‘working at heights’ for all surveyors in China, (3) establishing positive cooperation with yard management on safety and health matters, and (4) improving incident and hazard reporting with a focus on corrective action implementation.
During the course of the year, the pro-gramme was implemented in all districts in China. In addition, over 20 operation sites were revisited during the year in order to support local management in implementing defined actions. The motivation for resuming the project is strong: following the imple-mentation of the initial programme in 2007, the number of injuries has been reduced by over 30%, and incident and hazard reports increased by 28%.
Confined spaces Inspections Lab work Office work Other Overnight stay Teambuilding Transfers Transport/travelling Walking Working at height Grand total
Conflicts 1 1
Contaminated food 1 1
Squeezed / trapped / nipped 1 1 2
Unacceptable Workload Level 1 1
Unclear responsibilities 1 1
Slips / trips / falls 2 8 1 2 2 3 1 19
Other 1 1 1 1 4
Hit against / struck by 1 2 2 2 1 9 1 18
Caught up in (e.g. machinery) 2 2
Exertion / repetitive strain 1 1 3 2 7
Heat exhaustion 2 2
Grand total 3 14 3 9 2 3 4 2 13 4 1 58
type of accidents
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oCCupational HealtH issues
distributed on work proCesses type of aCCidents and oCCupational HealtH issues witH absenCe ≥ 8 Hours per work proCesses aCCidents distributed
on work proCesses
Maintenance (build /ground /off)
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