Facts and Figures

We have made it our goal to reduce the worldwide lost time injury rate per two hundred thousand working hours to 0.1 at most by 2025.

 

Beginning in 2018, we adapted our reporting on accidents to the recommendations of the International Council of Chemical Associations (ICCA), the European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) and the German Chemicals Industry Association (VCI). To implement these recommendations, we also had to convert our targets. Consequently, our goal from 2018 onward is to reduce occupational safety incidents to a rate of no more than 0.1 per 200,000 working hours by 2025 (previous goal: a rate of no more than 0.5 incidents per one million working hours).

In 2019, 0.3 work-related accidents per 200,000 working hours¹ occurred at BASF sites worldwide (2018: 0.3). The proportion of chemical-relat­ed accidents rose slightly to 7% (2018: 6%). Unfortunately, there was one fatal work-related accident in 2019 (2018: 3).

In October, an employee of BASF Polska Sp. z o.o. succumbed to injuries sustained from falling down the stairs during a business event outside of company premises.

BASF is supporting the relevant authorities in their investigations into the circumstances and cause of the accident. And is using the findings to take appropriate measures to prevent this from happening again. Such measures include regular information and awareness campaigns.

¹Hours worked by BASF employees, temporary employees and contractors