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SUSTAINABILITY REPORT | 2013 37 Health, Safety, and Environment Policy Qatalum’s Hse policy is in place to ensure optimal operations while maintaining high safety and environmental standards. the Hse policy includes: • Operating under safe, healthy, and environmentally acceptable working conditions. • Continually improving our HSE measures by setting and implementing appropriate objectives and targets. • Complying with applicable Qatari legal requirements and other standards adopted by the company. • Ensuring a strong HSE awareness among our employees and contractors. Performance Highlights Qatalum monitors and tracks a number of indicators for both employees and contractors. this allows the company to identify problems or Hse challenges and see progress towards improving them year-on-year. Indicator 2011 2012 2013 Fatalities 0 0 0 Lost time injury rate 0.47 0.64 0.08 Reportable injury rate 2.37 1.28 0.33 Employees Qatalum tracks and reports on its lost time injury and reportable injury rates. Qatalum’s employee reportable injury rate, already low in previous years, has further decreased to 0.33 in 2013. this demonstrates the success of our safety policy and trainings. the Paste Plant in the carbon Group started operations in January 2010 and since then has completed 3 years with no lost time injury to any of its personnel.