Rotana Corporate Sustainability Report 2014

65 A corporate policy for colleague health and safety is in place and a policy for incidents reporting and investigation was issued for reporting incidents, improving its investigation and preventing re-occurrence, monitoring incidents data and rate. We are constantly improving the way we track safety data. For the last two years, our injury rate, lost day rate and occupational disease rate were calculated only for Abu Dhabi, UAE hotels. The lost time injury freqeuncy rate dropped from 10.7% in 2013 to 3.7% in 2014. Similarly the lost time injury severity rate dropped from 19.9% to 3.7% in 2014. We continue training all our colleagues on the new incindent reporting policy and the online reporting system for incidents and near misses to calculate these rates for the whole group. This will help to ensure consistent classification of incidents across the hotels, which will improve the data and the monitoring of our performance in this important area. We will be able to calculate these data in 2015 and was set a a KPI for all hotels. An emergency management plan is developed for the company to ensure that all hotels are capable to deal with different types of emergencies and colleagues are trained on the response procedure. Training is fundamental to our approach in managing health and safety concerns. Across our operations, various health and safety training programmes of different levels were provided to colleagues, including the mandatory health and safety and emergency module introduced during the Rotana orientation programmes. Workplace safety, fire safety and first aid were the main training topics covered beside specific intermediate and advanced levels of health and safety trainings. 30 20 10 0 Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate Lost Time Injury Severity Rate 3.75 3.75 19.98 10.75 2013 2014 Lost time injuries rates Ebola awareness training Consequent to the spread of the deadly Ebola disease, we have developed training materials and mandated all our hotels to train colleagues on it to provide them with necessary information about the disease and its prevention, and the procedure to respond to the epidemic infectious disease emergency. Al Ghurair Rotana by Rotana, UAE The hotel organised in collaboration with local hospitals a free medical camps for eye, scalp analysis and bone density, dental checkup, GP consultation and homeopathic consultation. Almost 100 colleagues participated. Al Ain Rotana, UAE World No Tobacco Day Hotel colleagues carried out formative acitivities including a month long competition of who among our colleagues had stopped smoking, for how long and why? Announcement of winner and prize was given during the team meeting. Another activity included the distribution of Quit Smoking flyers courtesy of Al Noor Hospital to all colleagues and guests and explaining the benefit of it, the activity was joined by several volunteered colleagues. Our targets for 2015 Colleagues profile • Reduce colleagues turnover rate • Increase workforce female% and senior female Health and Safety · Calculate and report on the group colleagues injury rates and lost day rates • Achieve zero work related fatalities or incidents resulting in permanent disability • Complete hotels site and workplaces risk assessment • Complete 80% training on environment, health and safety and sustainability basic awareness training • Enhance our support for colleague wellness and work-life balance • Hotels to implement the Emergency Management Plan Engagement • Continuously improve Engaged to Life survey score