Zero Accident Units

There were no lost-time accidents at the Cigarette factory in Munger, the Packaging & Printing factory at Munger; Paperboards unit at Bollarum; Research Centres at Bengaluru and Rajahmundry and the Gurgaon Pilot Plant of the Lifestyle Retailing business, ITC Infotech’s Bengaluru Office Complex and Surya Nepal’s Cigarette factory at Simra during the year.

Among ITC hotels, Maurya, Mughal, Maratha, Grand Central, Sonar, Windsor, Kakatiya, Sheraton Chola; Rajputana and New Delhi, and Bay Islands Port Blair remained free of Lost Time Accidents in 2007-08.

Injury Rate (IR) and Lost Day Rate (LDR)

Injury Rate and Lost Day Rate are key measures used to assess the safety performance of the Company. Our focus on providing a safe work environment yielded positive results with consistent reduction in injury rate, which has come down by nearly 59% since 2001.

Our LDR, the total number of days lost due to accidents for every 200,000 person-hours worked was 3.5 in 2007-08 (2.2 in 2006-07 and 6.5 in 2005-06).

Effective implementation of best-in-class safety standards resulted in zero fatal accidents in 2007-08.