Developing and Implementing Operational Controls
Operations and activities that could result in risk or impact are controlled to ensure that our environment, health, and safety (EHS) policy is followed and that management system objectives are achieved. We develop procedures to cover both internal activities, such as control of hazardous energy and fall protection, and external activities like contractor and product safety.

Where appropriate, documented standards or guidance-for-compliance directives support the control of operations and activities that may result in safety impacts. Our business units are encouraged to use Alcoa Business System principles to maintain flexibility and pursue continual improvement of both corporate and their own procedures. Personnel periodically review common Alcoa operations and activities to identify which require operational controls.

Emergency preparedness and response planning and preparedness ensure we establish and maintain procedures to identify the potential for and the responses to emergency situations and to plan for the prevention and mitigation of EHS effects and occupational illnesses and injuries that may be associated with identified emergency situations. Where situations warrant, we have provisions for expedited funding and emergency medical evacuation.

Every business unit is required to ensure that each of its locations develops, implements, and maintains written emergency response plans and training programs consistent with our mandatory procedure for emergency response plans. This procedure requires business units and locations to commit the necessary
resources—such as manpower, equipment, materials, and outside contractors—necessary to prevent, control, and respond to emergency situations. Alcoa's priorities for emergency response are protection of human life and health, mitigation of environmental effects, and the protection of property—in that order.


Monitoring and Maintaining Systems
The monitoring and measurement of our safety systems help us evaluate and improve Alcoa's performance. This also allows us to identify areas that require corrective action and to determine the root causes of such problem areas.

Selecting the appropriate performance indicators and monitoring frequency necessary to track performance of the management system can be a challenge. When selecting performance indicators, we seek to identify the critical few performance indicators that are:

• Predictive and leading;
• Objective, verifiable, and measurable;
• Relevant to Alcoa's activities, products, and services;
• Consistent with the organization's safety policy, objectives, and targets;
• Practical, cost-effective, and technologically feasible; and
• Meaningful to internal and external stakeholders.

Each business unit and operating location enters applicable data into the Alcoa EHS Metrics System and the Alcoa Incident Management System. Periodically, we test and calibrate performance indicators against the safety objectives and action plans to determine their effectiveness in measuring and monitoring Alcoa's overall safety performance.


Reacting to Correct Gaps and Improve System Stability
When a safety or other protective-system nonconformance exists, business units and locations are expected to initiate a corrective action process that, at minimum, involves the following:

• Investigate the alleged nonconformance and determine its validity;
• Determine the potential impact of the nonconformance and prioritize work based on the risk;
• Identify the root cause;
• Determine necessary corrective and preventive action;
• Assign a level of urgency and scope to the corrective and preventive action that is commensurate with the magnitude of the nonconformance and its related impacts; and
• Verify to insure corrective actions are implemented.

The safety systems are reviewed at least annually. Senior management participates in the review process, which is designed to ensure the continued suitability, adequacy, and effectiveness of the organization's overall safety management system.


2020 Framework Safety Goals

Target	Metric	Progress Achieved Through Year-End 2007
Elimination of occupational illnesses and injuries	Zero fatalities	Five fatalities go
	Zero lost workday rate	0.12 lost workday incident rate go
	Zero total recordable injuries	1.35 total recordable incident rate go
	From base year 2006, achieve at least a 20% reduction in the number of employees requiring protective measures against unacceptable noise levels by 2008	12% go
	From base year 2006, achieve at least a 20% reduction in the number of employees requiring protective measures against unacceptable workplace exposure to chemicals by 2008	15% go