Sustainability Performance 2021

across all our facilities. Now, acetone is fully substituted and the environment in our facilities has improved significantly. To ensure our safety management systems are on par with international best practice, we aim to certify all production sites according to OHSAS18001. All of our production sites passed such certification in 2021. Tracking our performance To track our performance, we score our plants according to the EHS Framework 3.0, an EHS Management system based on site risk profiles. We track two types of indicators to measure our safety performance, the Leading and Lagging indicators - both reported in Gensuite® an EHS Web tool. Leading indicators pro- vide early warning signs of potential failures, leading to proac- tive, preventive, and predictive measures before major safety incidents actually take place. On the other hand, lagging indica- tors, such as injury and illness rate, EHS related events are records of failure as safety barrier, leading to corrective actions after incidents have already taken place. These EHS Perfor- mances indicators are consolidated and reported at CEO level during the monthly EHS KPI’s Review. As all businesses may have encountered in 2021, our safety per- formances were impacted by Covid-19 in terms of work-related infection cases. Our Injuries & Illness rate went up in 2021 to 0.73 per 200,000 working hours from 0.56 in 2020*. Likewise, we also had an increase in Days Away from Work rate from 0.32 in 2020 to 0.53 in 2021. We need to improve in managing EHS risks particularly in new process introduction and new design implementation. Though we had two years of good records in I&I rate before 2021, nothing should be taken for granted in terms of safety. Constant efforts are necessary to maintain the level of safety said Stephane Binder, our Global EHS Culture & Performance Manager, we need to continue working on apply- ing the cultural and behavioral approaches in Safety as a one team in order to move on the next maturity level. Our commitment to providing and promoting safe and healthy work environments drove our efforts in 2021 to eliminate the use of acetone at all LM Wind Power manufacturing facilities, test facilities, laboratories and service departments worldwide. While this chemical has excellent cleaning performance and is used during various stages of the blade production process, its low flash point and effects to the nervous system was a concern from an EHS standpoint. After careful research and evaluation with favorable outcomes, dibasic ester (DBE), a non-flammable, readily biodegradable, and non-corrosive chemical has been selected as a replacement and a full-scale roll-out followed * In our Safety metrics, we consider LM employees & LM Coordinated Contractors. 18 | LM WIND POWER SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE 2021