safety - PKN Orlen

Corporate responsibility report
4.7. Together, we change the world
PKN ORLEN consequently undertakes measures aimed
at environmental protection. The milestones:
• in 1999, two nest boxes were fixed on chimneys
of the Combined Heat and Power Plant and the Claus
Unit;
• in 2000, the Company started cooperation with
the ”Peregrine Falcon Restitution in Poland” Programme
Board, which changed name to FALCON
Society for Wild Animals in 2002;
• the first birds hatched in 2002.
Find a falcon!
http://webcam.peregrinus.pl/pl/telemetria-satelitarna
More birds hatched in 2010. Four peregrine falcon chicks
were seen in the nest boxes on the CHP chimney.
The Polish Red Book of Animals lists the peregrine falcon
as CR – critically endangered species.
For more information, visit:
www.peregrinus.pl
Mr Sławomir Sielicki, a falconer and the Chair of the FAL-
CON Society for Wild Animals, ringed young females
with yellow ornithological rings. Rings are put on birds
that hatch in municipal and built-up areas. They also
wear blue bird-watching rings displaying large letters
and digits. This way, information may be read from
large distances with the help of field glasses. It is very
likely that the parents of the new chicks are the couple
which settled at ORLEN’s premises in 2002. Since then,
29 chicks were born at ORLEN.
4.8. Responsible Care
Since 1997, PKN ORLEN has participated in the Responsible
Care Programme (RC). In 2010, we completed
the process of implementing the Framework Responsible
Care Management System. An audit of the system, conducted
at the turn of 2010 and 2011, confirmed that
the level of the implementation entitled the Company
to apply for a certificate to the Programme Board.
What was new this year was that two females were
provided with small satellite emitters that send radio
signals to the satellite. The information received from
the emitter makes it possible to determine the bird’s
whereabouts with 1 km precision. Satellite emitters
also enable tracking young peregrine falcons in order
to analyse the routes of their migration and the areas
they occupy in the first years of their life.
In 2010, the Company implemented 43 tasks associated
with all areas of the RC Programme and completed
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were once again proposed for implementation in 2011.
For more information, visit:
The 2009 Corporate Responsibility Report, pp. 57 – 58
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