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| Lafarge launches "Safety Month" Lafarge, the world's largest cement maker, announces the launch of "Safety Month", which will take place during the month of June at all of the group's 3,000 sites worldwide. In the 76 countries where Lafarge is present, at every site, one or more days will be devoted to safety awareness programs and training, for the group's employees, as well as their families, subcontractors and local communities. Following an audit carried out with the Dupont "Safety Resources" unit to make a diagnosis of the situation, based on questionnaires, interviews and an assessment of representative sites, Lafarge defined the outlines of an ambitious roadmap aimed at halving the number of lost time incidents between 2005 and 2008, and achieving zero accidents in the longer term. The measures taken by Lafarge as part of this roadmap have started to yield results: the lost time injury frequency rate has been almost halved since 2005, reaching 1.66 (number of accidents leading to loss of time, by million hours worked) at the end of 2007, a year earlier than the initial objective. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Construction News :: home page |