Operations

Rolls-Royce is committed to building and maintaining a high reliability organisation, one that delivers consistently high performance across all aspects of health, safety and environmental (HS&E) management. Our objective is to achieve world-class levels of performance throughout our business and to be widely recognised for the excellence of our performance. In the past year we have launched a revised HS&E strategy and governance arrangements, introduced global programmes of improvement and strengthened our HS&E function.

During 2011, we have continued our programme of investment, funding world-class facilities in all major geographies, providing capacity for future growth, contributing to improved productivity and delivering products with operational lives which may well extend to half a century. We have invested £467m in capital projects in 2011.  New aerospace facilities include Crosspointe in the US to manufacture discs and at Seletar in Singapore where we will assemble and test large civil engines and manufacture wide-chord fan blades. We have also opened a new Mechanical Test complex at Dahlewitz in Germany to conduct testing for our businesses worldwide.

Further information on our Operational activities can be found in the Annual Report.

Targets

In 2009, we declared a new set of Group-wide HS&E targets for the period 2010 – 2012 for which we are now reporting our progress.

Our targets are:

• Protect health: Reduce the Group incident rate of occupational diseases and other work related ill-health by ten per cent by the end of 2012
• Prevent injury: Reduce the Group Total Reportable Injury (TRI) rate by 50 per cent by the end of 2012
• Reduce environmental impact:
  • Five per cent reduction in Group facility Green House Gas Emissions (GHG) by the end of 2012 (absolute) (excluding product development and test)
  • Ten per cent reduction in total GHG (including product development and test) by the end of 2012 (normalised by financial revenue)
  • 70 per cent Group recycle rate of solid waste by end of 2012