The protection of employees in the workplace has enjoyed a long tradition in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry.

Organizational and technical measures are continuously being taken to reduce the number and severity of workplace accidents. Thanks to focused training on a periodic basis of all employees workplace accidents could be significantly reduced over the last decade.

The accident coefficient LTIR (Lost Time Incident Rate) as measured in number of accidents per 1 million working hours has been cut to half from 13.0 in 1993 to 5.9 in 2007.