For 2011, our Recordable Injury Frequency on a global basis was 0.77, our best performance to date and a performance improvement of 34% against 2010. Nearly 46% of our manufacturing and Research & Development (R&D) sites had no recordable injuries in 2011. While we are pleased with the performance improvement, we remain focused on continuously reducing injuries. Our lost time injury frequency was 0.29 in 2011.

process safety

Cytec’s definition of Serious Process Safety Incidents was aligned with the Center for Chemical Process Safety in 2010. CCPS defines this category of incident as unintentional releases from a Chemical Process above specific thresholds, or events causing lost time or worse injuries or events beyond $25k in direct monetary damage. During 2011, we had one such incident that met these criteria, which is a significant improvement over 2010. The decrease can partially be explained by a change in our metrics, which measures various process safety leading indicators. We improved our systems to investigate the root causes of these incidents.