We achieved our most important target in 2012, no fatal accidents. We will not achieve our most important target in 2013. A contractor employee lost his life following an accident at Hydro's extrusion plant in Lucé, France. Safe operations continue to be of paramount importance, and our ambition of no fatal accidents remains our top priority. Our TRI rate (total recordable injuries per million hours worked) was 3.4 in 2012, down from 3.8 in 2011, but we did not achieve our target of 2.85. The target is unchanged for 2013. We work continuously to avoid work-related illnesses and injuries, and track the development through a corporate reporting tool. Guidelines for assessing risks in the work environment are used by the business areas to help map and evaluate Hydro's work environment.
Registered sick leave in Hydro was 3.2 percent in 2012, up from 3.1 percent in 2011. Legal systems and compensation regarding sick leave vary from country to country. This impacts reporting and makes comparison between countries difficult, even though we introduced common reporting definitions in 2012. Norwegian national reporting requirements are similar, but not identical, to our reporting requirements, and the national average is significantly higher than the average of Hydro in Norway. Sick leave for Hydro in Norway, according to Norwegian reporting requirements, was 4.6 percent in 2012, up from 4.4 percent in the previous year. Men's sick leave was 4.4 percent, up from the 2011 level of 4.1 percent, while women's sick leave was 5.7 percent in 2012, the same as in 2011.
We have initiated several measures to improve performance. Designing the interface between the employee and technical equipment is important to avoid dangerous situations and accidents. Our Extruded Products business area only, has spent Euro 15 million on this during the last five years and plan to continue the work. In addition comes similar activities in the Primary Metal and Rolled Products business areas.
Implementation of a common, company-wide high-risk incident investigation and communication tool, was started in 2012.
