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1Measuring health and safety performance 2In FY23, our key focus areas included contractor safety 3across our projects and the identification of incidents 4and near misses that could have caused serious harm 5to our employees and contractors. We continue to drive 6our visible leadership initiatives through the key leading 7indicators of HSEH Interactions and High Potential  8Hazard Identification.9By focusing on visible leadership through HSEH 10Interactions, leaders can understand the challenges 11workers face and how they can be addressed to improve 12safety performance. HSEH interactions underwent 13an improvement exercise with the introduction of 14subcategories of focused interactions that include:15• Health and safety – Focuses on general health  16and safety 17• Environment and heritage – Focuses on general 18environment and heritage19• Critical control – Focuses on interacting with a work 20group on the implementation of critical controls for 21high-risk activities22• Wellbeing – Introduced to improve health and 23wellbeing with a focus on psychosocial risk 24management25In FY24, there will be a focus on increasing the number  26of Critical Control and Wellbeing interactions to enhance 27and complement our Serious Harm Prevention and 28Wellbeing initiatives. 29The two key lag indicators for safety performance  30in FY23 were Potential Serious Harm Incident Frequency 31Rate (PSHIFR) and Total Recordable Injury Frequency  32Rate (TRIFR).33Safety lead indicators 34Under APA’s HSEH Interactions metric, APA’s leaders 35have safety-focused discussions on hazard identification, 36risk mitigation and corrective action mechanisms with 37employees. In FY23, our leaders completed over  384,334 HSEH Interactions, an increase of 13% on FY22. 39These interactions help to keep safety front-of-mind  40for everyone.41Safety lag indicators 42In FY23, APA did not record any Fatalities or Actual 43Serious Harm incidents.44In line with our Serious Harm Prevention initiatives,  45APA recorded 33 Potential Serious Harm Incidents  46versus 46 in FY22. The Potential Serious Harm Incident 47Frequency Rate for FY23 was 3.74, compared to  486.51 in FY22 – a 42% decrease. 49At the end of FY23, APA’s combined employee and 50contractor TRIFR was 3.4 Recordable Injuries per million 51hours worked. This represents a slight increase of  523% on the FY22 figure of 3.3. This equates to 30 people 53requiring medical intervention, up from 23 in FY22, against 54a 24.8% increase in the total number of hours worked by 55our employees and contractors when compared to FY22.56Safety compliance 57APA received one regulatory (safety) penalty infringement 58notice and 20 regulatory (safety) improvement notices in 59FY23. Workplace Health and Safety Queensland issued 60the infringement notice on an APA contractor undertaking 61electrical repairs on a number of inverters at our Dugald 62River Solar Farm without the appropriate electrical 63licences. This resulted in a $2,000 penalty. The  6420 improvement notices were issued by the same 65Regulator during an inspection at the Dugald River Solar 66Farm. All notices were related to minor administrative 67matters at the site and were promptly rectified. 68Assurance 69We engaged Deloitte to undertake limited 70assurance of selected key performance indicators 71included in the Safety Performance section of 72our FY23 Sustainability Data Book, in accordance 73with the Australian Standard on Assurance 74Engagements ASAE 3000 Assurance Engagements 75other than Audits or Reviews of Historical Financial 76Information issued by the Australian Auditing and 77Assurance Standards Board (ASAE 3000). Details 78of the assurance scope, procedures and conclusion 79are included in the Assurance Report on page 200 80of this report.81SUSTAINABILITYGOVERNANCEAPA INFRASTRUCTURE TRUST FINANCIAL REPORTAPA INVESTMENT TRUST FINANCIAL REPORTADDITIONAL INFORMATION824583OPERATING & FINANCIAL REVIEW