Number of Employee Injury Incidents per 200,000 hours worked

	F2002	F2003	F2004	F2005	F2006	F2007
Target	N/A	N/A	3.1	2.7	2.3	2.1
Actual	5	3.3	3	2.6	2.5

Definition

All Injury Frequency is the total number of employee injury incidents (Medical Aids and Disabling Injuries) occurring in the 12 months prior to the report date relative to the amount of worked hours in the same period. For this measurement, Medical Aid injuries are defined as those where a medical practitioner has rendered services beyond the level defined as "first aid" in relation to the injury incident, and the employee was not absent from work beyond time lost on the day of the injury. Disabling injuries are defined as those that involve the employee being absent from work beyond the day of injury.

Variance Explanation

There has been a substantial reduction in the period and, although we did not achieve the F2006 target of 2.3, the reduction trend remains strong. Unfortunately, we have had a number of very serious incidents including two that proved fatal. Efforts to continue that reduction will be maintained and significant corporate energy is going into activity to prevent the serious incidents from occuring in the future.

Benchmark Comparison

BC Hydro compares its performance annually to the CEA composite. In this comparison we have (over the past number of years) been consistently out-performing the composite and have been positioned within the top quartile. There has been significant improvement across the industy overall in the past year. As a result, we are no longer top-quartile, but do remain at 2.4, substantially stronger than the CEA composite which now has reduced to about 2.8.