HSE performance

In 2009, the group’s employees and subcontractors completed 67 million man-hours (2008: 67 million) of activity. During the year the group experienced a recordable incident frequency rate of 0.38 per 200,000 man-hours (2008: 0.32).

During 2009 a lost time injury frequency rate of 0.02 (2007: 0.03) was experienced. This compares well with industry published data but further action is again being taken to continue to improve during the current year.

Safety performance_ARA 2009