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Health, Safety & Environmental Bulletin No 053

S Martin - 24 August 2007

Near Miss Reporting

I am pleased to report that we are now starting to make steady progress in recognising and
reporting Near Miss occurrences on site.

At this point in time, we have identified and reported 91% more Near Misses than we did in the
whole of 2006. Please note that some near misses can be categorised with more than one
immediate cause or substandard condition, hence this not being reflected in the graph attached.

The key on the bottom right hand corner of the page identifies the immediate cause of the
incident, whilst the hatching around the pie chart indicates whether it relates to an employee,
subcontractor or third party over which we have no control (i.e. a member of the public or
contractor not related to our works).

One trend that is noticeable from the data on the Pie Charts extracted from our reporting data is
that we appear to be noticing near misses relating to third parties and sub contractors more than
those relating to ourselves or our colleagues. Anyone who would like further explanation of
how to understand the data is welcome to contact Michael, Kate, or me to discuss.

I would like to point out that Near Miss reporting is encouraged with the objective of
establishing a ‘no blame’ culture – we want to learn from what we do wrong and learn what we
can do better – please be self critical and encourage colleagues to report anything that we can
do in a safer manner and you may prevent loss or damage to either life, wellbeing or property.

My personal objective, and that of the Management Team is to achieve an Incident & Injury
Free working environment on all our sites and to ensure that all our colleagues, sub contractors,
site staff and customers all go home safely to their families each day.

“let’s make sure that we continue to make our sites THE SAFEST by helping ourselves, our colleagues,
our customers and even our competitors by improving training, helping where necessary and
addressing any issues of concern there and then”

If you have any queries regarding the Safety Bulletin content or require further information please
contact any staff member of Xmo Strata Ltd.