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Sustainability performance

Sustainability performance data table 20181

Metric Unit Performance
2016 2017 2018
1. Safe, healthy, quality working lives for our people
Number of employees (total) number 198,517 197,108 208,583
Number of contractors (total) number 43,044 43,368 44,855
Fatalities - (total)* number 17 23 10
Fatalities (steel) number 11 19 10
Fatalities (mining) number 6 4 0
Fatalities (own personnel) number 10 16 5
Fatalities (contractors) number 7 7 5
Lost-time injury rate (total)2* per million hours worked 0.83 0.79 0.67
Lost-time injury rate (mining) per million hours worked 1.02 0.35 0.34
Lost-time injury rate (steel) per million hours worked 0.82 0.78 0.78
Lost-time injury rate (own personnel) per million hours worked 0.82 0.80 0.71
Lost-time injury rate (contractors) per million hours worked 0.85 0.67 0.65
Accident severity rate (total) per thousand hours worked 0.08 0.08 0.07
Accident severity rate (steel) per thousand hours worked 0.08 0.08 0.08
Accident severity rate (mining) per thousand hours worked 0.13 0.01 0.02
Total recordable injury frequency rate (total)3 n /million work h 5.13 4.82 4.59
Total recordable injury frequency rate (steel) n /million work h 5.20 4.96 4.98
Total recordable injury frequency rate (mining) n /million work h 4.75 4.04 2.46
Total recordable injury frequency rate (own personnel) n /million work h 5.37 5.08 4.84
Total recordable injury frequency rate (contractors) n /million work h 4.57 4.24 4.05
Manager turnover rate % 2.4 2.7 2.2
Industrial operations (including mining) certified to OHSAS 180014* % 98 98 98
Employees covered by collective bargaining agreements % 89 88 88
Number of strikes exceeding one week in duration number 0 0 4
Number of training hours per employee5 hours 51 49 56
Women on the Board of Directors %  33  33 33
Women in management positions (manager and above positions):* % 12 12 12
- Vice presidents % 6 6 6
- General Managers % 6 6 7
- Managers % 14 14 14
Women in key position succession plans (general manager and positions above)* % — — 12
Women recruited (exempt population)* % — — 27
2. Products that accelerate more sustainable lifestyles
Research and development spend $ (million) 239 278 290
Number of LCA studies undertaken number 16 23 32
Products for outcome 2 launched number 37 21 15
Programmes for outcome 2 in development number 19 18 17
3. Products that create sustainable infrastructure
Products for outcome 3 launched number 67 21 11
Programmes for outcome 3 in development number 15 19 21
4. Efficient use of resources and high recycling rates
Raw materials used by weight:
- Iron ore million tonnes 114.9 118.6 118.3
- Pulverised coal injection (PCI) and coal million tonnes 46.3 47.8 47.9
- Coke million tonnes 29 28.9 28.2
- Scrap and direct reduced iron (DRI) million tonnes 33.7 35.4 36.3
Steel scrap recycled million tonnes 26.7 29.4 28.6
CO2 avoided from steel scrap recycled million tonnes 34.8 38.2 37.2
Blast furnace slag re-used (total) million tonnes 15.8 18.4 19.0
BF slag to cement industry. million tonnes 9.1 10.2 12.4
CO2 avoided from slag re-use in cement industry million tonnes 7.0 7.8 9.5
Production residues to landfill/waste (steel) % 7.8 7.6 7.6
Production residues to landfill/waste (mining) % 40.4 35.0 22.4
Production residues and by-products re-used (steel) % 79.1 88.7 87.3
Production residues and by-products re-used (mining) % 10.1 10.2 9.3
5. Trusted user of air, land and water
Environmental capital expenditure $ (million) 177 158 405
Industrial operations certified to ISO 14001 (steel)4 % 98 98 98
Industrial operations certified to ISO 14001 (mining)4 % 52 48 48
Air
Absolute dust emissions (steel) thousand tonnes 60.7 62.1 55.1
Dust intensity (steel) kg/tonne of steel 0.67 0.67 0.61
Absolute NOx emissions (steel) thousand tonnes 113.5 107.7 101.3
NOx intensity (steel) kg/tonne of steel 1.26 1.17 1.12
Absolute SOx emissions (steel) thousand tonnes 169.5 150.5 166.1
SOx intensity (steel) kg/tonne of steel 1.92 1.66 1.86
Absolute dust emissions (mining) thousand tonnes 6.8 6.3 13.8
Absolute NOx (mining) thousand tonnes 15.7 13.9 14.2
Absolute SOx (mining)6 thousand tonnes 9.0 8.8 P
Water
Freshwater intake (steel) m3/tonne of steel 23.5 23.2 23.8
Proportion of water extraction from ground water sources % 0.6 0.6 0.6
Water discharge (steel) m3/tonne of steel 18.4 19.0 18.8
Net water use (steel) m3/tonne of steel 4.9 4.3 5.4
6. Responsible energy user that helps create a lower carbon future
Energy capital expenditure $ (million) 108 373 247
Energy intensity (steel) GJ/tonne of Steel 24.0 24.0 24.0
Primary energy consumption (steel)* million GJ (PJ) 2,174 2,227 2,196
- Energy recovered and reused on site, as % of total % 24.8 23.83 24.0
- Energy from renewable sources, as % of total % 0.23 0.17 0.23
- Energy sold by type (heat, steam or electricity) as % of total % 1.1 1.1 1.0
Absolute CO2e footprint (steel and mining)* million tonnes 204 207 203
- Scope 1 CO2e million tonnes 176 179 174
- Scope 2 CO2e million tonnes 14 15 14
- Scope 3 CO2e million tonnes 14 14 15
Absolute CO2e footprint (steel)* million tonnes 193 197 194
– scope 1 CO2e (steel) million tonnes 167 170 167
– scope 2 CO2e (steel) million tonnes 12 13 12
– scope 3 CO2e (steel) million tonnes 14 13 15
Absolute CO2e footprint (mining)*7 million tonnes 10 10 9
– scope 1 CO2e (mining) million tonnes 9 8 7
– scope 2 CO2e (mining) million tonnes 2 2 2
– scope 3 CO2e (mining) million tonnes 0 0 0
CO2 intensity (steel)* t/tonne of steel 2.14 2.12 2.12
– CO2 intensity (BF only) t/tonne of steel 2.33 2.31 2.33
– CO2 intensity (EAF only) t/tonne of steel 0.53 0.60 0.66
% sites below ArcelorMittal carbon efficiency benchmark % 42 50 44
Carbon footprint intensity improvement since 2007 (target = 8% by 2020)8 % 5.2 6.2 5.6
7. Supply chains our customers trust
Global procurement suppliers evaluated against code for responsible sourcing number 387 357 405
8. Active and welcomed member of the community
9. Pipeline of talented scientists and engineers for the future
Community investment spend (including STEM spend)9 $ (million) 20.2 29.1 30.5
– of which, voluntary spend $ (million) 18.8 20.7
– of which, spend on STEM projects10 $ (million) 6.0 7.1 9.9
10. Our contribution to society measured, shared and valued
Estimated direct economic contribution $ (million) 56,222 68,143 74,776
of which:
– Total tax contribution $ (million) 3,976 4,381 4,849
– Corporate Income tax $ (million) 296 507 629
– Local taxes $ (million) 390 381 406
– Payroll taxes $ (million) 3,193 3,334 3,382
– Other taxes including royalties $ (million) 95 157 157
– Employee salaries, wages and pensions $ (million) 7,637 9,046 9,502
– Supplier and contractor payments $ (million) 40,489 50,498 55,966
– Capital expenditure $ (million) 2,444 2,819 3,305
– Dividends and payments to creditors $ (million) 1,417 1,092 864
Number of country level corporate responsibility/sustainability reports number 17 16 16
Country level reports adhering to GRI % 76 81 81
Transparent good governance
Number of Board of Directors self-assessments number 1 1 1
% of employees completed code of business conduct training % 81 85 88
% of employees completed anti-corruption training % 76 82 90
% of employees completed human rights training % 84 66 94
Number of operations with a local confidential whistleblowing system number 30 30 27
Whistleblowing complaints received via Internal Audit number 153 160 158

*Publicly assured by DNV GL.

1 The indicators in this table have been developed over the period 2007-2018 in line with the requirements of the Global Reporting Initiative and of the Company. All methodologies can be found in the Basis of Reporting. In 2014, we adopted 10 new sustainable development outcomes, and although these indicators were not selected to measure progress against these outcomes, they are listed here under our 10 outcomes. KPIs the company has identified as metrics that are useful for driving and tracking progress, are marked in bold. Environmental data presented in this table are provisional except where assured by DNV GL.

2 Following further review, subsequent minor changes have been noted to this indicator which are not considered material.

3 For 2018 data, the scope covers all companies with an activity in 2018, irrespective of their activity status as of Dec 31st 2018, except ex-Ilva (which joined the group in November 2018). For 2016 and 2017 data, the scope covers active sites as of Dec 31st 2017.

4 This data is based on the last internal audit of sites undertaken several years ago. We are currently building a new system to capture this information which will enable us to update this data in 2020.

5 Data does not include the training data for Ilva (subsequently renamed ArcelorMittal Italia) which was acquired on 1 November 2018. The total number of training hours per employee for ArcelorMittal inclusive of this was 53.

6 Pending data under review.

7 CO2e (mining) data has been within the scope of external assurance since 2017.

8 Refers to carbon intensity of sites we operate today that we operated in 2007. Since the operation perimeter changes from year to year, the baseline is not constant. See page 31 of the Integrated Annual Report for an explanation of our underlying carbon performance.

9 In 2017 for the first time we break down community investment spend into that protion which is voluntary and that which is mandatory as a result of contractual agreements with host governments.

10 STEM = Science, technology, engineering and maths.

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