Corporate responsibility

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We promote equal opportunities, a healthy lifestyle and safety in the workplace.

Investing in our people

We operate in an industry where workplace safety is an everyday focus and this continues to be our number one priority. Being a responsible employer goes further than workplace safety however. We want ArcelorMittal to be a place where people can fulfil their potential, and feel that their views are taken into account. When economic circumstances force us to make changes and reductions to our workforce, we make every effort to do this in a sensitive manner and offer support to those affected.

2012 Progress at a glance

Our commitments Our progress Next steps
Safety
  • A fatality and injury free workplace.
  • 29 fatalities1 (2011: 27).
  • Lost time injury frequency rate2 1.0 (2011: 1.4) - target met.
  • 95% of steel and mining operations certified to health and safety management system, OHSAS 18001.
  • A lost-time injury frequency rate of 1.0 or less for 2013.
  • Continue implementation of fatality prevention standards.
  • 100% of operations to be certified to OHSAS 18001.
Health
  • Health programmes in all business units, adapted to local needs.
  • Absenteeism rate3 of 2.43 (2011: 2.97).
  • Global health awareness programme involved more than 120,000 colleagues.
  • Launch of internal occupational hygiene training scheme.
  • 4 regional occupational health training programmes to be delivered.
Employee relations
  • Open and constructive dialogue with employees.
  • 0.06 % man-days lost to strikes (2011: 0.08%).
  • Continue to review site level implementation of employee relations policy.
Training and leadership development
  • Develop a flexible, trained, and highly- motivated workforce.
  • Over 200,000 man-hours of employee training delivered by the ArcelorMittal University (2011: 358,000).
  • ArcelorMittal University CLIP accredition (quality label by EFMD)4
  • Implement a group-wide reporting system to capture a consolidated figure on employee training hours.
Diversity and inclusion
  • Build a thriving workforce where everybody is treated equally and respected for their contribution.
  • Launched “Women in Leadership” programme.
  • Regional implementation of our gender and inclusion programme.

KPI: We report on our progress against the key performance indicators that monitor the four areas of our corporate responsibility strategy.

1 29 employee and contractor fatalities. In addition, one visitor fatality at our site.
2 Lost-time injury frequency rate is the number of fatal accidents and lost-time injuries per million hours worked, for both employees and contractors.
3 The absenteeism rate is measured as the total time taken off for illness (capped at six months per case) divided by hours to be worked.
4 CLIP is the Corporate Learning Improvement Process accreditation from the European Foundation of Management Development.

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