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Health & Safety
Our Health & Safety Performance
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Incident & Injury Free
Lend Lease has a deep and widespread commitment to operating Incident & Injury Free wherever we have a presence - this is an enormous challenge but we are determined to progress.
Safety touches every aspect of the Lend Lease business, from the buildings we design and construct to the way our assets are managed.
Providing our people with the right systems and tools to deliver safe outcomes is crucial to achieving our Incident & Injury free vision. A lot of hard work has been done over the past year to build on our accomplishments to date and set in place a robust and vigorous global governance system for safety.
This has been supported by extensive education, training and worker engagement programmes. We still have a lot to do to realise our Incident & Injury Free vision – but we are confident that we are on the right track.
Lost Time Incidents
 Looking back over the past three years the Lost Time Injury Frequency rates have fallen significantly from FY07 to FY09 indicating fewer man hours lost to injury.
Most regions reported a decline in LTIFR over the past year. Asia experienced slight increase in LTIFR which can largely be attributed to an improving reporting culture across the business.
Incident Reporting
 Our online electronic incident reporting system (known as WebCare) was first introduced to the business in July 2007. This system redefined the incidents required report to corporate including those which have a clear potential to result in serious injury (known as High Potential or HiPo reports). As a result of the great transparency provided by WebCare, we have seen a significant increase in the numbers of incidents reported and shared with the wider business, which allows us to better understand circumstances, communicate lesson learned and proactively manage risk.
Reportable Incidents
 Global Flash and HiPo by circumstance over FY09.
The main circumstances surrounding reported incidents over the past year were fall of materials followed by fall of persons, property damage and electrical incidents. The majority of ‘fall of material’ incidents were near misses indicating an increased awareness of the dangers of falling materials. In an attempt to mitigate these risks, our global minimum requirements, supported by means and methods set clear rules and methods for working safely.
FY09 Fatalities on Lend Lease controlled projects
Under our Incident & Injury Free vision we are striving to achieve zero incidents and injuries in our business. As we believe it is important to promote transparency, Lend Lease takes a comprehensive approach to incident reporting across our sites and assets by including incidents involving indirect contractors. Sadly, eight people died on Lend Lease projects this financial year on our global construction sites. This is unacceptable.
FY09 Fatalities on Lend Lease controlled projects
Three year fatality rates
Major circumstances surrounding fatalities over the past three years
 Falls of persons are the leading cause of fatal incidents across the construction industry. Lend Lease has taken further steps to mitigate the danger associated with working at heights within its Global Minimum Requirements for Safety. A hierarchy of risk control must be applied when planning and conducting work at heights to ensure the safest reasonably practical work methods are used. This is designed to either eliminate the need to conduct work at height or introduce perimeter protection and other methods to prevent the fall of people and materials.
Fatalities by region and fiscal year
The following graph shows the number of fatalities across the global business over the past three years.
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