Joint Health and Safety Committees

The potash workforce is represented in joint management-worker health and safety committees mandated by regulation. The nitrogen and phosphate workforce have voluntary management-worker committees to address health and safety concerns. All the health and safety committees are located at the individual facilities.

Injury Rates

PotashCorp achieved a record low recordable injury rate in 2006. This reflects the initiatives the company has taken to revitalize its safety culture under the Senior Safety Leadership Team after injury rates increased in 2005.

Recording and Reporting Accident Statistics

PotashCorp's SHE management system prescribes a specific, timely reporting requirement for SHE events. It complies substantially with the International Labour Organization's Code of Practice on Recording and Notification of Occupational Accidents and Diseases. It also follows reporting and notification requirements in the countries where it operates: the United States, Canada, Trinidad and Brazil.

Fatalities

PotashCorp had one fatality in 2006, which involved a car accident outside the plant site at Geismar, Louisiana.

Programs for Serious Diseases

PotashCorp adopted a corporate-wide comprehensive approach to the management of serious diseases, such as diabetes, repetitive stress injury (RSI), stress and HIV/AIDS, in the workplace. Employees with a chronic or life-threatening illness will be treated in the same manner as any other employee, provided they continue to competently perform the duties of their positions and their health conditions do not pose a hazard to themselves or others.

Discriminatory acts by employees against a fellow employee or others with a chronic or life-threatening illness are unacceptable, and the offenders may be subject to disciplinary action up to and including termination. The company will comply with applicable privacy laws by treating all employee medical information as strictly confidential.

Without medical evidence to the contrary, the company does not believe that the presence of an employee with a chronic or life-threatening illness, including AIDS, poses a workplace hazard. Such employees will not be subject to different or unusual treatment, unless those actions are medically necessary to protect their safety or the safety of others.

The company's Trinidad operation has introduced a specific HIV/AIDS program that provides education and training, counseling, prevention and risk control for workers.