Alongside that we are maintaining the higher level of preventive matters we have seen over the last years. We will continue our ongoing efforts to improve and secure our environments against injuries and illness in line with our main goal, no accidents in 2025. Creating a zero-accident workplace starts with shaping the culture and fostering a safety-oriented mindset. This means ensuring that everyone is aware of potential risks and enhancing their overall understanding of safety hazards. When we do that, we create an environment where risks can be identified early, leading to the implementation of preventive measures to avoid accidents. The preventive reporting of risks gives us the necessary information to work with in our quest for zero accidents.
However, we still have work to do before becoming a zero-accident company, but as the results below shows there are clear improvements. Not only in the form of significantly improved numbers but also in terms of higher risk awareness among our employees. Over the past few years, we have witnessed numerous indications of improvement in our safety culture, with people caring for and looking after each other to a substantially greater extent than before. This is also visible in our 2024 safety KPIs, where we can clearly see the correlation between the significantly higher number of risk reports in recent years, handled and followed up, and the clear decrease in the number of accidents and incidents.
A part of the improved safety KPIs of 2024 can be tracked back to a change we did for 2024 on how to define safety deviations, including accidents and near misses to align with the industry standard to enhance comparability. But that is a smaller part of the improvement in numbers. Even when measuring according to our old standard, 2024 really stands out by far as our best year.
Collaboration, legal compliance and activities
As part of the safety work, Suzuki Garphyttan maintains a well-developed cooperation between our global safety officer and our local safety representatives. We are striving to find the right balance of raising awareness, changing behaviours, and using technical solutions to create a safety culture that reflects our values. We want everyone to be actively involved, with leaders guiding the way and employees taking ownership where understanding human behaviours is just as important as solving technical problems.
We ensure that our company complies to legislation by maintaining a well-organized work environment and conducting regular internal and ISO certificate audits. We also have several activities on the agenda to improve further continuously. For instance, since 2022 we have a bi-annual event called “Suzuki Garphyttan Safety Week”. An event that includes all employees and addressing various safety topics from shop floor wire handling to general workplace stress.