Last year Halden recorded no lost-time incidents across the group. For a company whose engineers spend most of their time on live industrial plants, often during maintenance windows when the plant is at its least familiar, that is the number we are proudest of.
What we think made the difference
Stop-work authority that is actually used. Anyone on a Halden site can stop work if something looks wrong, without asking and without consequence. Last year it was used 212 times. Each one was reviewed and in 190 cases the stop was judged correct.
Near misses treated as good news. Near-miss reports rose to 1,120, up from 870 the year before. A rising number of reports with a falling number of incidents means people are speaking up, and every report was investigated and closed.
Job safety analysis before every visit. Not a form to sign, a conversation with the plant's own team about what is different today.
What we are watching
Recordable incidents, which include injuries that do not cause lost time, were 0.4 per million hours. That is low but not zero, and most of them were hand injuries during cabinet work. We have changed the glove standard and are tracking it this year.
The full safety record and the quality system behind it are on the quality and safety page.
