In May, the Company started Klabin’s Excellence in Occupational Health and Safety Program. Over 800 managers were trained and prepared to observe people’s attitudes towards work safety, in order to better eliminate deviations and consequently accidents. Special software was developed locally to record all behavioral deviation, and a databank for systemic assessment was created.

The number of accidents went down by 25% in comparison to 2004, as a result of this Program. There were 150 accidents involving our employees and resulting in absence from work, with a 10.17 frequency rate, while in 2004 there were 204 accidents, with a 13.56 frequency rate.

During the year other tools for work safety management were also introduced:

• Analysis of Occupational Safety (AST) – risk analysis, in which employees try to improve conditions and steps in their work and routine.
• Safety Committee for Out-sourced Companies (Comsecom) – in the units of Santa Catarina (forestry and plants), of Monte Alegre, Parana, and of Sao Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul.
• Work Permit – Visits were made to companies with excellent track-records in safety to verify best practices using this tool for the safe liberation of systems.

Klabin also runs a Corporate Safety Committee, made up of its Executive Directors as well as directors and managers from the industrial and forestry departments of each Unit, so as to coordinate actions throughout the entire Group.