ITC continued its efforts to achieve zero accidents in all its units. Ongoing training programmes, involvement of employees, suggestion schemes and proactive risk management by the units has considerably reduced serious accidents in the Company.

During 2004-05 there were no lost time accidents at Bengaluru and Kidderpore Cigarette factories; IGRDC and Rajahmundry Research Centres; Munger Packaging & Printing unit; Maurya, Mughal, Chola, Sonar Bangla, Grand Central, Rajputana and Windsor hotels.

ITC units had 37 lost time accidents (LTA) during 2004-05, which included 8 LTAs in the newly acquired Kovai paperboards unit and the additional hotels which came into the fold due to the merger of ITC Hotels with ITC.

Number of Lost Time Accidents

Accident Incidence Rate (AIR), a measure of the number of accidents for every 2,00,000 manhours worked, for 2004-05 is 0.207. This includes accidents at the newly acquired Kovai unit and the additional hotels after the merger of ITC Hotels with ITC.

Accident Incidence Rate for the Cigarettes business stands at 0.11. This compares well with the AIR of 0.64 reported by BAT, one of the leading cigarette manufacturers of the world, for all its operations (Source: Social Report of British American Tobacco 2004-05).

Accident Incidence Rate (AIR)

Accident Statistics at ITC Units

All ITC units have state-of-the-art fire detection and control systems. All employees are trained in fire safety and evacuation drills. Corporate EHS fire safety experts carry out a detailed audit of each unit once a year to ensure that all fire safety systems are in line with corporate standards and in state of readiness. ITC continued to remain ‘fire accident-free’ in the year 2004-05.

Fire Accidents