Number of Employee Injury Incidents per 200,000 hours worked

	F2002	F2003	F2004	F2005	F2006	F2007
Target	N/A	3.1	2.3	2.3	2.1	1.9
Actual	3.3	3	2.6	2.6	2.4

All Injury Frequency (AIF) is a standard Canadian Electricity Association (CEA) measure and is defined as the total number of employee Medical Aids and Disabling Injuries occurring in the last 12 months per 200,000 hours worked. Medical aid injuries are those where a medical practitioner has rendered services beyond the level defined as "first aid" and the employee was not absent from work after the day of the injury. Disabling injuries are those where the employee is absent beyond the day of injury.

Although AIF actual did not achieve target at year end, the reduction from 2.6 to 2.4 (eight per cent improvement) is still notable and demonstrates the commitment and continuous improvement efforts that all staff have given to safety in the year. The target of 2.1 was considered quite aggressive, and we are maintaining this stance in an effort to direct us to Best in Class performance which is the goal for 2010.

BC Hydro is performing well in comparison to the Canadian utility industry norms. For AIF, the benchmark CEA composite presently sits at 2.8 while BC Hydro ended fiscal 2007 favourably at 2.4.