- Energy and water use
- Waste management
- Climate change
- Air emissions
- Contaminated land
- Product stewardship
- Health and safety
- Fines and prosecutions
- Environmental investment
- Supply chain management
We have chosen these areas as indicators as they are common
across our operations and to our activities as a manufacturing
and technology group.
Our performance at a glance
| Performance Area |
Units |
Trend
(2001-2003)
|
2003 |
2002 |
2001 |
| BiE Index |
% score |
^ |
69 |
64 |
56 |
| ISO 14001 |
Number of major manufacturing sites certified |
^ |
77 |
49 |
36 |
| Waste disposal to landfill |
Tonnes/£m sales |
^ |
4 |
6 |
7 |
| Greenhouse gas emissions |
Tonnes CO2 equivalent /£m sales |
> |
88 |
92 |
89 |
| Water use |
M3 /£m sales |
v |
605 |
608 |
544 |
| VOC emissions |
Kg/£m sales |
> |
118 |
134 |
117 |
| Ozone depleting emissions |
Tonnes CFC-11 Equivalent |
^ |
0.8 |
1.0 |
1.8 |
| Regulatory compliance (environment) |
Number of enforcement actions (resulting in fines or prosecutions) |
- |
1 |
2 |
N/A |
| Lost time incidents |
Number of lost time incidents due to injury or illness/1000 employees |
^ |
13 |
16 |
18 |
| Roll
out of health and safety audit protocol (AuditMaster™) |
Number of major sites completing at least one audit |
^ |
59 |
13 |
0 |
| Number of major sites scoring > 60% |
^ |
48 |
8 |
0 |
Key: [^] improved situation, [>] unchanged situation [v] worsened
situation
Data Quality
We have developed a set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
to measure and drive our progress in EHS performance. Both absolute
and normalised data is provided. Where normalised data is presented,
we use the Group’s financial turnover, as published in
the Annual Report and Accounts for the year in question for
environmental performance, and use employee data i.e. actual
staff numbers and man-hours worked at sites for lost time incident
performance.
Significant absolute reductions in energy consumption, emissions
and waste are shown in the performance charts. These are influenced
by the sale of major business units - such as Polymer Sealing
Solutions - during the year. We believe that normalising the
data against sales and employee numbers provides more meaningful
information on trends in performance.
Data collection and interpretation continues to be a challenge.
Establishing meaningful trends in performance is difficult as
the diverse profile of our operations can change significantly
through acquisitions and divestments. We believe that the overall
quality of our data has improved over time but we appreciate
that there is still scope for further improvement. |
