CARBONECO has a goal of zero workplace accidents. This goal is not out of reach; CARBONECO believes that all accidents are preventable, wherefore it invests a great deal of resources and effort into developing initiatives and programmes to make this objective a reality.

With this objective in mind, CARBONECO uses a series of indicators to measure safety performance. Based on the results, it creates an annual workplace safety and accident decrease plan, wherein it establishes ways to improve management and the investment needed to ensure its facilities comply with the sector’s highest standards.

Improvements include all initiatives needed to decrease the risk of serious accidents, effectively implement the industrial safety recommendations provided by reinsurance company audits, reduce workplace accidents and remedy all identified safety training deficiencies.

The Strategic Plan for the prevention of accidents and incidents is approved each year. Each unit compiles its own strategic environmental and safety plan, wherein each establishes specific programmes that help improve safety and environmental management, based upon the goals set out in the Strategic Plan.

If these objectives are met, along with all others included in the Strategic Plan, all CARBONECOemployees receive variable remuneration. This is just another way CARBONECO proves how committed it is to safety. As part of this commitment, quantitative objectives have been established for 2008, in an effort to continue the trend from recent years.