Case Study: Smurfit Kappa achieves 58% reduction in lost-time accidents with Intelex Safety Incident Software

Packaging Company Achieves 58% Reduction in Lost-Time Accidents with Intelex Safety Incident Software

Smurfit Kappa Group, a global leader in paper-based packaging with over 300 plants and 40,000 employees, faced inconsistent, paper-based safety incident tracking across its UK sites. Management needed a web-based, user-friendly system that would standardize incident, hazard and near-miss reporting and deliver real-time metrics like days since lost time injury and accident frequency and severity rates.

Intelex’s web-based Safety Incident Reporting application centralized and digitized Smurfit Kappa’s paper form, imported employee IDs, and provided a simple interface plus train-the-trainer rollout. The result was standardized, real-time reporting, a 58% reduction in lost-time accidents (accident frequency dropped from 1.90 to 0.83), a 64% increase in near-miss reporting, reduced paperwork and costs, and improved ability to identify root causes and drive corrective actions.

Smurfit Kappa

Mark Montgomery

Compliance Manager