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Lost-time injury frequency rate (LTIFR)
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Lost-time injury frequency rate (LTIFR) per million hours worked – Germany (single bar)
1 Figure not comparable with the figure in the 2018/19 report due to the change in the reporting system

Definition: The LTIFR captures the number of incidents with at least 1 missed day of work (not including the day of the incident) per 1 million hours worked. Fatalities and cases of permanent sick leave or disability are likewise included, whereas accidents while commuting are not.

Explanation: For METRO, we have initiated a group-wide Operational Safety Management System (OSMS) which has been approved by the Management Board in September 2020. It structures the safety environment in accordance with the requirements of ISO 45001 ‘Management systems for occupational health and safety’. The OSMS manages and controls the interlinked processes of the various business activities at METRO thus METRO is able to fulfil its safety-related obligations as an operator. As of business year 2020/21 the system will apply METRO group wide. Already in February 2020, the OHS reporting manual was launched as a pilot project to be cascaded to all entities as a part of the Operational Safety Management System implementation. Currently, the vast majority of METRO countries regularly report in the new format with the improved methodology of compiling and calculating work-related injuries.