2026年钢铁行业安全与职业健康数据报告

Shifting attention topreventive indicatorsis key to avoidingserious workplaceincidents. Contents 1.Foreword2.Potential serious injuries and fatalities (PSIF)3.Fatality analysis4.Process safety management (PSM) analysis5.All injury frequency rate (AIFR) and total recordable injury frequency rate (TRIFR)6.Lost time injury (LTI) analysis7.Sickness absence This report is based on data provided by our members and offers crucial insights into our industry’s ongoingcommitment to the safety and wellbeing of our workforce. Throughout this document, all frequency rates are calculated per million hours worked. For more details on terminology definitions and calculations, please refer to our glossary on worldsteel.orghttps://worldsteel.org/about-steel/glossary/ The data in this document is provisional and may be updated or supplemented with additional information. The World Steel Association (worldsteel) is one of the largest and most dynamic industry associations in the world, with members in everymajor steel-producing country. worldsteel represents steel producers, national and regional steel industry associations, and steel researchinstitutes. Members represent around 85% of global steel production. © World Steel Association 2026 | Design: MakeAlias.com Photo credits (in order of appearance):Tenaris, Emsteel, Acerinox, JSW, elmarakbysteel, POSCO, thyssenkrupp, ArcelorMittal, U. S. Steel, Gerdau, and Usiminas. Foreword Our industry has made remarkable progress over decades through asustained focus on managing and reducing risk. As a result, it is safertoday than it has ever been. However, the reality is that last year, 74 people did not return home totheir families at the end of their shifts. Our work is not done. Across our members,there is now clearalignment that the mosteffective way to reducefatalities and life-alteringinjuries is to prioritisethe critical controls thatprevent them. Improvement is becoming harder, in part because the nature of fatalrisk itself has changed over time. Fatalities are now concentratedin high-risk, non-routine activities involving a high degree ofunpredictability, such as working at height, maintenance, vehiclemovement, forklift operations and gas-related work. Importantly, theseactivities are also frequently carried out by contractors which explainsthe disproportionate number of contractor fatalities. To tackle thischallenge, we need to focus our resources where a significant impactcan be made. The industry needs a shift from traditional activity-based safetyapproaches to critical risk control, barrier health assurance andpotential serious injuries and fatalities (PSIF) thinking, using modernapproaches like human and organizational performance (HOP). This report reflects this shift within the industry with greater emphasison PSIF, leading indicators and preventive action, alongside continuedefforts to improve global alignment and transparency. Shalini KumariManager, Safety and Health worldsteel’s position on lagging indicators We continue to emphasise that lagging indicators such as lost timeinjury frequency rate (LTIFR) or total recordable injury frequency rate(TRIFR) should not be part of individual, team or organisation objectives,bonuses, or incentives and they should not be used for comparisonsbetween organisations or local sites. This is because of the followingreasons: •These indicators correlate poorly with the severity of accidents andinjuries and do not provide a valid or reliable measure of safety andhealth controls and initiatives. •They can foster a negative attitude towards reporting, limiting theorganisational ability to learn and improve. •A smaller organisation’s LTIFR or TRIFR is more significantly affected bya single incident but this doesn’t necessarily indicate a more dangerousworking environment. Furthermore, although worldsteel has a definition for lost time injury(LTI) and total recordable injury (TRI), companies vary in their definitionof what constitutes an LTI and TRI. For this reason, this report has anadditional indicator, all injury frequency rate (AIFR), which includes everykind of injury irrespective of severity. However, this is also a laggingindicator, and our focus should be on indicators that monitor andprevent potential serious injuries and fatalities. Potential serious injuries and fatalities (PSIF) A potential serious injury or fatality is any incident, regardless of actual severity, that hasthe potential to lead to a life-threatening, life-altering, or fatal injury. A PSIF precursor is any unmitigated high-risk situation that has potential to result ina serious injury or fatality if not controlled because management controls are absent,ineffective, or not complied with. In 2025, 92%of sites madeuse of a PSIFframework. The number of individual sites reporting to worldsteel using the PSIF framework has increased inrecent years. The figures below only represent the sites reporting PSIFs and combining contractorsand empl