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The two sectors have similar scores on emissions, contacts, social responsibility, and prosecutions and fines. However, the chemicals industry CERs are substantially better with respect to environmental management systems (+25%), internet reports (+22%) and occupational illness (+20%). Also there is a significant improvement on external verification (+17%). On the other hand, the chemicals CERs provide much less information on business profile (manufacturing countries (-25%) and operations (-24%)) and give significantly less attention to supplier involvement (-30%) and water consumption (-18%). 

Information not contained in the CER will be taken from the annual report or internet report if obvious, but a yes will be scored. This will be treated separately when making inter company and inter-group comparisons of CERs. 

To obtain a yes score, the CER (or the internet report when no CER is available) should discuss the environmental impact from all major businesses other than from acquisitions made within the previous two years. Any indication that major businesses identified in the annual report have not been included or the failure to clearly identify the extent of coverage will generate a no score. 

Inclusion of an opinion seeking reply card will enable the company to seek comments to improve the design and content of future CERs, and will also encourage stakeholder participation. Ideally the reply card should be attached to the CER, however, a yes score will be awarded if a reply card was received with it. Where no CER is received a yes score will be awarded if there is encouragement for the reader to contact the company by inclusion of a direct link from the internet report to the appropriate contact. 

Company coverage while group reporting in the USA is undoubtedly comprehensive, international reporting is less so, and it is unclear to what degree the short CER and the internet report represent the environmental impact of the whole group. 

Air Products only produces the full CER on the internet. This analysis has been based on the short published summary, although where appropriate reference is made to the full internet report. 

Reply card no reply card is provided, although the internet report encourages the reader to respond, and the contact page is one specifically for Responsible Care issues. 

EMS the short CER only discusses how Air Products discharges its obligations under the six Responsible Care codes of management practice. However, the internet report identifies that two sites in Europe achieved ISO 14001 certification in 1999 and that the corporate headquarters and two US plants were inspected under the Chemical Manufacturers management verification system in 1998. 

The internet report goes somewhat further, and describes seven centres of excellence and employee networks. Between the two reports it is considered that sufficient information is provided to award a yes score. 

The internet report also includes three examples under its Responsible Care discussion on CAER. 

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. 

TRI discharges to all media Air Products file annual figures to the US federal government on Toxic Release Inventory (TRI). The internet report lists releases of each reported chemical for 1998 by media. In both the internet and short CER comparative figures are presented for the past ten years for air-sensitives, releases to the environment and for discharges from Air Products facilities (including transfers for off-site treatment). 

Emissions to air between 1987 and 1989 the discharges of chemicals originally listed in the TRI fell sharply from 400000 pounds to 150000 pounds. Since then the figures have steadily fallen to their present level of approximately 50000 pounds. Reference is also made in the internet report to some international operations. 

Internet CER there is no internet report. Instead the website has an area allocated to Community where the reader is encouraged to request information about the environmental report viae-mail. 

Internet CER the website has an area titled For the Environment , which in turn directs the reader to the environmental annual report, EH S commitment, chairman s challenge awards and a section on cleaning up the River Sweep. The internet report is identical to the CER, but is not in an easily downloaded format. 

Internet CER the website includes an area for Corporate Policy-Environmental Protection and Safety that directs the reader to the internet report as a pdf file. 

Internet CER the BOC website does not contain an internet report on HS E issues, but it does have a web page which features the BOC Foundation for the Environment. 

Internet CER the Responsible Care report is issued both as a published version and as an internet report in pdf format. 

Internet CER Henkel s website contains comprehensive coverage of SHE issues. The CER is available as a pdf internet report. 

Internet CER the 1996,1997 and 1998 CERs are issued on the internet in pdf format. The 1999 internet report takes the form of a series of web pages having similar content to the 1998 CER under the title Safety, Health and Environment . 

Transport incidents no mention is made of the absence or occurrence of any transport incidents, although there is extensive discussion on the safety of transport methods both in the CER and the internet report. 

Emergency preparedness a yes score has been awarded since the internet report refers to the use of the TransC AER train for training in accident response, and the annual report refers to emergency response plans and the incident command system which has recently undergone revision in North America. This latter includes cooperation with local industry, community partners and government agencies . 

Environmental expenditure no figures are given for group-wide environmental expenditure, but the internet report does include a reference to the expenditure of Can 3.5 million on increasing the capacity of the Kitimat... 

Emissions to land no figures are given for emissions to land, but the Internet Report does mention contracting out the disposal of waste mercury... 

At the time of the internet report the group was organised in three main business sectors (the former Life Sciences division had already been spun off to form a separate company under the name Perbio Science AB). The operations of the three divisions were ... 

Company coverage the internet report uses data from all production units owned by Perstorp during 1999. Adjustments have been made for part-owned companies. 

Each year the internet report contains a clear statement that Perstorp s Policy, objectives and work in the S.H.E. area are presented annually in the Group s environmental report on the Internet and in separate reports by various Group units . 

Reply card this being an internet report there is no reply card, but a yes score has been awarded since e-mail links are provided to three named SHE contacts. 

Downside reports the internet report does suggest one in which the downside is being reported. As well as reporting failures to meet targets it is identified that in 1999 there were six complaints from the public regarding odour and three regarding noise. There were also 30 environmental incidents and 15 fires/explosions. 

Six other individuals are also identified in named SHE roles in the internet report. 

Each year as part of the EH S policy statement in the internet report, PPG commit to reporting environment, health and safety performance annually. 

Data used historical data in both the CER and the internet report is... 

Policy PPG s Global Code of Ethics and Environment, Elealth and Safety Policy are referred to in the CEO s foreword. This is not reproduced in the CER, but the policy is given in the internet report. It includes ... 

Objectives a no score has been awarded because of the absence of any quantified objectives, although the internet report identifies a group commitment to continuous improvement toward the ultimate goal of zero accidents, illnesses and environmental incidents . 

Procedures/responslblllties the internet report identifies that PPG s Environmental Affairs Committee develops the environment, health and safety policy and, along with the Corporate Environment, Health and Safety Department, oversees compliance. 

A graph is given in the internet report showing the number of facility compliance audits. There have been approximately 40 audits each year since 1995. 

A no score has been awarded since neither the CER nor the internet report identify any individual EH S roles or responsibilities. 

Lost time accidents the internet report indicates that the global recordable injury/illness frequency rate fell from 5 per 100 employees in 1992 to just over 3 in 1997. The figures in the CER for 1998 and 1999 were 4.63 and 4.93, respectively. 

Downside reports while the way in which the CER and internet report are compiled (and the articles it contains) appear even-handed, there are no downside reports, so a no score has been awarded. 

Emissions to land global waste generation is reported in the CER as an index calculated as the ratio of waste per unit of production to the figure in 1992. By 1995 this index had fallen to 87%, with further reductions to 67% in 1998. The absolute waste generation figures given in the internet report increased 3% to approximately 400 000 tons between 1992 and 1998. Hazardous waste this fell 5% to approximately 110000 tons between 1992 and 1998. 

Fatalities there is no mention of the occurrence or absence of any fatalities either in the environmental statement or the short internet report. 

Process design the short internet report goes into some detail on product stewardship, but there is also sufficient evidence from the environ mental statement of initiatives to reduce environmental impact by process improvement. This includes ... 

Solutia Inc s Toxic Release Inventory is presented in the short internet report, but the data presented below is all taken from the environmental statement. 

Internet CER the website has an area devoted to Responsible Care from which the internet report was taken. 

Site coverage insufficient information is given in the internet report to assess whether the approach presented is even-handed. 

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