2007 Interactive Registration Document - Renault

03 ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
PERFORMANCE
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Chimrisk – the Renault group’s sole chemical risk management database,
for both health and the environment. It is associated with the www.quickfds.fr
server to provide safety data fi les updated in different languages;
a documentation base containing standards of best environmental practice
and risk prevention accessible to all members of this environmental
network.
Integrating the environment in projects
In powertrain activities, the roll-out of environmental management in industrial
projects is currently being validated and will soon be receiving external
recognition. Integration has covered 20 powertrain activities, spanning all
aspects of industrial projects, from beginning to end, across the Powertrain
Engineering Department. This structure makes sure that environmental issues
are taken on board, in terms of both environmental compliance and efforts to
reduce the environmental impacts of the Group’s industrial activity. This approach
is applied to all the projects undertaken at industrial sites. Each site makes a
commitment to reaching a level of environmental performance comparable to
that of a target plant within 10 years. In 2008 studies will be extended to risk
prevention and industrial hygiene.
A similar process is being rolled out for “Chassis” engineering projects and for
body-assembly capacity-related projects.
For vehicle projects, the requirements relating to risk prevention and
environmental protection are now included in the Group’s start-up standards.
Environmental management at the plants
Setting up continuous improvement processes based on the
ISO 14001 standard ✦
Renault is pursuing a process of continuous improvement to achieve compliance,
backed up by the skills and involvement of all its employees. The Group is
implementing an environmental management system, for which it obtained its
fi rst ISO 14001 certifi cations in 1999.
In 2007, the Somaca site in Casablanca received ISO 14001 certifi cation.
The Avtoframos site (Moscow) has deployed an environmental management
system with a view to acquiring certifi cation in early 2008. This certifi cation
will then cover all the industrial activity of the Renault group, i.e. 42 production
and design sites, and subsidiaries.
Renault eco 2 , an eco-label spanning the entire vehicle life cycle, is based on
ISO 14001 certifi cation. This shows that the vehicles concerned have been
produced in clean plants.
Bringing the environment closer to grass roots with the Renault
Production Way
Renault decided in 2004 to include its environmental standards in the Renault
Production Way (SPR). Refl ecting this objective, each worker implements
environmental requirements day-by-day at his/or her workstation through the
SPR process.
Defi ning the environmental requirements of each workstation is a three-stage
process:
engineering teams identify requirements relating to chemicals management
and waste treatment;
the site includes these requirements in the documentation for each
workstation;
operators are trained to perform the actions set out in these documents.
Staying one step ahead with the site environmental
management plan
The environmental management plan launched in 2002 describes how the
environment of each site is liable to evolve over the next ten years, in line with its
ecological sensitivity. The documents associated with each industrial site cover
continuous progress and the start-up of new vehicle or sub-system projects,
as well as major changes to facilities. The plan contributes to the dialogue
between engineers, building planners and plants by defi ning targets for reducing
environmental impact at the earliest stage of project development. Plans are
updated regularly. This plan was fi rst introduced at production sites in Western
Europe. Since then, it has gradually been extended to other sites, including
Busan (South Korea) and Curitiba (Brazil) in 2006, and Pitesti (Romania) and
Envigado (Colombia) in 2007. Today, 27 industrial sites use this tool (15 body
assembly sites and 12 powertrain sites).
Data produced by management plans are used to set medium- and longterm
targets for the function teams responsible for selecting manufacturing
processes. The method developed provides decision-support for sites, to help
them identify their technical and managerial priorities, specify the expected
results in collaboration with function teams, and establish performance levels
in relation to the competition.
The environmental results of industrial sites, along with any changes in the
course taken to meet the objectives and targets set out in the management
plans, are monitored in monthly or quarterly coordination meetings.
Inspection
Renault has developed its own audit standards. The ISO 14001 standard
stipulates that sites should conduct internal audits to assess progress.
The environmental network did not want to limit this process to the ISO 14001
standard alone, but to use it to pursue the progress made at sites over the
long term, to exchange information, and to organize the Group’s management.
The audit serves in particular to inform plant managers about their performance,
the state of their program and its implementation. It also guides the input
provided by other functions to put appropriate measures into place. The audit
also harmonizes communication with corporate or financial partners on
environmental performance.
The management system is evaluated by internal audits, referred to as “network
audits”. Performed at all sites by members of the network, these audits make
it possible to conduct cross-audits between several sites. These audits seek
to promote dialogue between environmental managers and to encourage
consultation between different functions in order to identify solutions and
improve performance. Today, the network has 24 audit managers and 29 internal
auditors trained by Renault.
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