Downside reports

The overall level of involvement in downside reporting is 71%, with Scandinavia (100%) and Europe (70%) ahead of North America (63%). In individual country terms Finland (100%) and the UK (100%) did best. 

Companies are quite prepared to report on the positive side of environmental activities. However, it is most important that the negative side is also reported. Figures presented under some other headings (e.g. fines, fatalities) are of themselves downside reports, but to obtain a yes score here the CER must include downside information that need not otherwise be included. If there is no flavour that downside information is being fairly reported in the CER a no score will be given. 

Downside reports apart from reporting the increase in injury rates, neither the short CER nor the internet report have the flavour of ones in which the downside is being reported. 

Downside reports a no score has been awarded since there is no real evidence of any downside reporting. 

Downside reports the CER includes reports on Ashland s compliance record and the number of non-contained releases, and a yes score has been awarded since the general tone is one of a report in which the downside is being reported. 

Downside reports no mention is made in the report of any accidents, injuries or environmental incidents, and there is no other downside reporting. 

Downside reports the section titled Site in the CER describes the need to clean up contamination land on the Rhine and in Argentina, and the section titled Safety features articles on accidents at Wuppertal Elberfeld and Dormagen. 

Downside reports the CER does not contain any downside reports. 

Downside reports the CER includes an article that describes an accident resulting from a failure to ensure that a solvent was water-free. Other articles give the impression that the downside is being reported. 

Downside reports during 1998 fires each giving rise to internal damage in excess of DM 1 million occurred. One was at the vinyl chloride plant in Marl and the other in a metal refining plant at Pforzheim. Neither caused injury to people. 

Downside reports as well as identifying failures to achieve interim goals, the CER reports on the environmental incidents, and identifies a number of global targets for 2005 ... 

Downside reports a section titled Where it still went wrong brings together the downside reports. It points to the large number of employees involved in accidents, and describes the major explosions, fires, incidents and environmental releases. Complaints are separately reported. In 1999 there was a 75% increase in the number of complaints, mostly through discharges of dust and soot, odour and noise. 

Downside reports the CER includes a table of figures for neighbourhood complaints and a chart showing noise measurement figures at three locations. 

Downside reports while there are many aspects of Eastman s performance it can be proud of, the general flavour of the report does not suggest the downside is being even-handedly reported. 

Downside reports the CER includes articles that discuss ... 

Downside reports while the CER is written in a style which does not over emphasise EniChem s achievements, the absence of any examples of downside reporting warrants awarding a no score. 

Environment expenditure Prosecutions fines Downside reports... 

Downside reports in 1998 for the first time data on complaints was collected from the 88 sites based on the same defined criteria. 57 complaints concerned odour, 18 concerned noise and 16 concerned dust. Elsewhere the report identifies remedies to specific complaints and shortcomings found during audits. One such example quoted resulted in a written warning for the site manager. 

Downside reports complaints have fallen from the peak of 47 in 1995 to the current level of 7 (N.B. the same as the 1994 figure). Distribution incidents are at their lowest level ever (2 against 6 in 1997). While the way they are presented is upbeat , a yes score is given. 

Downside reports the report includes information about spills and releases, and complaints from the public. There have been three spills of significant quantities in 1998 (two in the USA and one in the UK) and 397 complaints (557 in 1997). 

Downside reports environmental risk, liabilities and legal issues are discussed at some length in the report These discussions, together with the way operations and impact data are reported, suggest that the downside is being reported in the CER. 

Downside reports the CER does give the feeling that the downside is being reported (e.g. it includes an article on work carried out to clean up ground after a spill of methanol contaminated with ethylene dichloride at Kitimat, Canada). 

Downside reports 31 complaints were received in 1998, mostly relating to odours and soot. The CER also includes a summary of the H SE highlights and downsides. The downsides identified are ... 

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