Safety
14 Heineken N.V.
14 Safety in production
17 Safety data of production units
17 Safety of installations
Every Heineken employee deserves
to work in a safe and healthy
environment. In this respect,
much has been achieved over
the past few years. Yet we should
not be discouraged by what
we still have to do but rather
see that as an urgent challenge.
Henk Rijckborst
Heineken Health Affairs Director
Heineken deeply regrets the three fatal accidents
that occurred in 2006 involving Heineken
employees, all of which were related to road
traffic incidents. In addition, one contractor
employee was killed when he fell during
construction activities in one of our breweries in
Bulgaria. Two other contractor employees were
killed in road accidents in France and Indonesia.
In 2006 three employee disabilities were
reported. These disabilities resulted from
accidents at work, which happened in Mons,
France, in Seville, Spain and in Port Moresby,
Papua Guinea.
Whenever and wherever work-related accidents
occur, we initiate comprehensive reviews to
establish the details of the incident and to
establish whether we need to amend our
procedures as a result of those reviews.
Safety in production
We aim to achieve continuous reductions in our
accident frequency rate. This is our key safety
parameter and consequently forms part of the
Heineken World Class Manufacturing Programme.
Our accident frequency rate decreased from
3.2 accidents per 100 Full Time Equivalents (FTEs)
in 2004 to 2.7 in 2006. The majority of accidents
(around 57 percent) still occur in bottling
departments, where most of our production staff
The information included in this section has
been compiled using occupational safety reports
returned by our production units, including
breweries, maltings and soft drink plants. The data
presented here cover all the operations where we
hold more than 50 percent of the shares or where
we have technical control. Production units that did
not report are Netanya (Tempo Beer Industries,
Israel), Nassau (Commonwealth Brewery, Bahamas),
Bad Brambach, Donaueschingen, Karlsruhe,
Chemnitz, Kulmbach, Plauen, Munich and
Rosenheim (Brau Holding International, Germany).
Performance data regarding accident severity
are not reliable yet. The data included on
page 15 are our best estimate based on the
available reporting systems. This also applies
to the environmental complaints data.
The reported data on safety related incidents
have not been subject to external assurance
procedures at local level and therefore these
data are not necessarily accurate.
More information about the basis of our reporting
parameters can be found in Appendix 2.
Sustainability Report 2006
