• “EADS considers that protection of the health and safety of employees in the work-place is key and a top priority for the Group.
• EADS is committed to maintaining safe and healthy working conditions for its employees. It is EADS BUs’ and subsidiaries’ role to implement Health and Safety policies based on evaluation, anticipation and risk management and taking into account all specificities as well as people’s needs.”

The management of Health and Safety is essentially dealt with at site level accordingly to applicable national regulations.

However some health and safety indicators have started to be drawn up at the Division or BU level which mainly address work related accidents.

As an example of the Group performances, the incidence and severity rates of reportable accidents (work related accidents causing an absence of more than 3 days) recorded at Airbus, noticeably decreased from 2004 to 2005, while aircraft deliveries increased.

Regarding the risk of avian flu, from the last term of 2005 onwards, the health and safety coordinators by BUs and countries have been mobilized at the corporate level to follow the World Health Organisation recommendations and to deliver the necessary advices to expatriates and travelers.