Percentage hours lost 3 which monitors the severity

Percentage hours lost
3
, which monitors the severity of our more
serious injuries by the total time lost, increased modestly from
0.04% in FY2017 to 0.05% in FY2018. Hours away on restricted
or transferred duties
3
, a more holistic measure of the effect
of all recordable injuries, improved to 0.18% from 0.22%. This
suggests that injuries were generally less severe or responded
better to treatment and return to work programs – a positive
outcome for our injured people and the organisation.
1. Per million hours worked for employees and contractors in 100%-owned
businesses including Headwaters, and all joint ventures businesses
regardless of equity interest in FY2018. Prior years data only includes
50%-owned joint ventures and excludes Headwaters.
2. RIFR is the combined lost time injury frequency rate (LTIFR) and medical
treatment injury frequency rate (MTIFR).
3. Defined as a percentage of total hours affected against total hours worked
– for employees only.
4. Proforma. All entities, including Headwaters data prior to Boral acquisition,
and joint ventures within USG Boral.
5. All entities, including full year Headwaters data, and joint ventures within
USG Boral.
6. For employees and contractors, including the Meridian Brick joint venture.
Boral measures its safety performance for employees and
contractors combined, which we believe is a true measure
of performance. This can, however, make benchmarking
challenging, as not all organisations report contractor data. In
addition, Boral includes all entities irrespective of equity interest
or management control, whereas other organisations typically
include only entities in which they have management control.
While leading indicators tend to vary across our businesses,
at a Group level we monitor hazard, near-miss and regulatory
intervention reporting. In FY2018, hazards reported increased
19% to more than 91,000 while near-misses reported increased
by 37% to more than 16,000 compared to the prior year.

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Climate-related impacts
Climate-related impacts and the transition to a low carbon
economy affect our operations, customers and supply chains.
We recognise that as a global manufacturer of construction
and building products, we are a significant emitter of carbon,
particularly through our clinker manufacturing operations in
Australia, which account for 49% of our total emissions of
2.6 million tonnes of CO
2
-e.
Since FY2012, we have reduced our absolute (Scope 1 and 2)
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 27% through actively re-
aligning our portfolio towards lighter-weight products and less
carbon-intensive businesses, reducing clinker manufacturing
in Australia in favour of imports from larger scale, more modern
and efficient operations in Asia
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, and investing in energy
efficiency and alternative fuels programs.