Annual Report 2006 - Boehringer Ingelheim

The pharmaceutical site in Shanghai, China,
was presented with an award for its exemplary
energy-saving efforts.
Facts and figures
The graphs on these pages show our performance
figures for the last five years.
The key parameter for our performance in
occupational safety is the accident rate relative
to hours worked. As the graph shows, this
has remained at the same level as in previous
years and is well below the average of about
seven accidents/million hours worked for the
European chemical industry.
Our environmental impacts are shown both as
absolute values and relative to production –
represented in our production index. The calcu-
lation of the index was slightly revised in 2006.
Our new baseline year is 2000. As additional
Wastewater — chemical oxygen demand (COD)
■ COD load before treatment (in tonnes)
■ COD load after treatment (in tonnes)
■ COD load (after treatment) index (in %)
8,000
6,000
4,000
2,000
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60
40
20
25,000
20,000
15,000
10,000
5,000
information, we will show on our website the
contributions made by our individual business
segments – Chemicals, Biopharmaceuticals and
Pharmaceuticals Production – to the respective
indicators.
Over the last few years, most indicators have
reached a stable level because many previous
technical or organisational improvements
resulted in an already high performance stand-
ard. Many of our ongoing efforts are no longer
reflected in our performance data as clearly as
during the earlier years. In 2006, we observed
a noticeable increase in hazardous waste and a
decrease in the recycling rate. This effect can be
mainly ascribed to the disposal of the slag from
wood-burning in the Ingelheim power plant.
While in the past the slag could be reused for
filling salt deposits, it is now brought to landfill
sites. For a more detailed explanation of the
individual graphs, please visit www.boehringer-
ingelheim.com/ehs
Disposed waste
■ Domestic waste (in tonnes)
■ Hazardous waste (in tonnes), incl. pharmaceutical waste
■ Disposed waste index (in %)
■ Recycling rate (in %)
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our caring culture
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70
Our environment & employee safety