Employee and Contractor Safety

Since the introduction of the AMAN Safety Transformation Program in 2016, Qatar Steel has experienced great improvements in its employee safety performance. The company’s employee lost time injury frequency rate (LTIFR) rate for 2018 surpassed its target goal, achieving 0.53 – a 40% reduction over the 2017 rate. Similarly, the contractors LTIFR also realized its target, reducing the rate to 0.48 – a 44% decrease from 2017.Qatar Steel also succeeded in reducing the number of minor injuries amongst employees by 35% since 2017 to only 11 recorded cases in 2018. Overall there has been a significant increase in the reporting of unsafe acts and conditions which has allowed QS to improve workplace safety. Such long-term positive trends indicate Qatar Steel’s sustained shift towards more preventative and less reactive management of occupational safety. There were also no work-related fatalities in 2018.

Safety Performance