Health and safety
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Aviation is attributable for 6% of the UK's total CO2 emissions.
Health and safety
We have five key performance indicators (KPI’s) for health and safety. They are:
- staff reportable accidentsstaff non-reportable accidentspublic reportable accidentsfiresfalse alarms.
The table below outlines our performance in 2007 against the five KPIs.
A reportable accident is one which requires to be notified to the Health and Safety Executive or relevant local authority under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995.
| Aberdeen | Edinburgh | Glasgow | |
| 2006 2007 | 2006 2007 | 2006 2007 | |
| Staff accidents | 16 23 | 17 22 | 42 45 |
| Staff accidents which are reportable | 1 1 | 2 1 | 9 3 |
| Lost day cases | 1 2 | 3 1 | 13 3 |
| Number of days lost due to accidents | 1 6 | 5 34 | 232 61 |
| Public reportable accidents | 1 0 | 0 0 | 4 4 |
| Significant fires | 5 0 | 2 1 | 1 2 |
| Significant false alarms | 13 5 | 63 33 | 43 39 |
Edinburgh airport
At Edinburgh Airport, there were 22 accidents to staff in 2007, compared with 17 during the previous year. There were no reportable accidents involving members of the public. The number of significant fires fell from two in 2006 to one in 2007, while the number of false alarms fell from 63 in 2006 to 33 in 2007.
Glasgow airport
At Glasgow Airport, total staff accidents were 45 during 2007, up from 42 in the previous year. However, there was a 30% reduction in the number of accidents which were reportable to the Health and Safety Executive and the number of days lost due to accidents saw a 26% reduction. Reportable accidents involving members of the public remained unchanged at four. Significant fires increased from one in 2006 to two in 2007, which was due to the terminal attack in June 2007, whilst false alarms reduced from 43 in 2006 to 39 in 2007 as a result of improved management processes.
Aberdeen airport
At Aberdeen Airport, there were 23 accidents involving staff during 2007 compared with 16 during the previous year. Some of this increase can be attributed to new accident severity ratings. Reportable accidents involving members of the public reduced to zero in 2007 from one the previous year. The number of fires fell to zero from five the previous year, while the number of false alarms dropped from 13 in 2006 to five in 2007.