Corporate responsibility report / Responsible brand - PKN Orlen

Corporate responsibility report
Arkadiusz Kamiński
Environmental Protection Office Director
in PKN ORLEN
of strenuous and difficult work was crowned with
success. The team of beaver catchers left Płock convinced
that at least one beaver was left on the area
of the „Moczary” reservoir. Therefore, the operation
was repeated in Decem ber. The hunters found one
adult beaver – a female, which joined the beavers that
had been caught earlier.
/ Responsible Care
Since 1997 PKN ORLEN has participated in the Responsible
Care Programme (RC). The Programme is the chemical
industry’s global initiative under which chemical
companies work together to continuously improve their
safety, health and environmental performance and openly
communicate their activities.
In 2009 the Environmental Protection Department,
apart from performing its ordinary duties, had to deal
with a very unusual task, whose aim was to catch and
resettle the family of beavers which inhabited the Plant
premises. How was this task performed?
PKN ORLEN contracted a group of specialists from
the Polish Hunting Association to catch and resettle
the beavers. The action was initiated on 20 October
2009. To perform this task, PKN ORLEN engaged
the only such team of specialists in Poland. The most
difficult part of the task was to locate the positions where
the beavers could be found, i.e. all lodges, holes, corridors
through which beavers may escape to the darkest
corners. The entire action was supported by trained
dogs of Jagdterrier breed which can drive beavers out
of their holes and lodges. All such places were guarded.
A net was spread across the reservoir to the depth
of at least 4 m.
The entities implementing the RC Programme each year
announce the execution of certain tasks aimed at improving
their activity in the field of the so-called HSE triad
(Health, Safety and Environment). They develop required
reports and submit them to the Programme Secretariat.
Based on such information, the Polish Chamber of Chemical
Industry – an employers’ organization, publishes
annually an Environmental Report presenting the achievements
of companies in the scope of reduction of their
negative impact, as well as results of the Programme
implementation. This synthetic form constitutes a significant
element of the Programme and made the chemical industry
one of the Polish precursors of open information policy
in the field of environmental protection.
In 2009 the Company completed and submitted to the Programme
Secretariat the following questionnaires:
• “Indicators – reporting for 2008,”
• “Environmental database for 2008,”
• “Report on execution of tasks in 2008.”
The first beaver – an adult female weighing 18.5 kg was
caught already on the first day. Then – a male weighing
19 kg and two young female and male beavers of two
years of age and weighing 15.5 kg and 14 kg, respectively,
were caught on 21 October 2009. The beavers
were put into cages.
The entire family was successfully transported on 22
October to the area of the Osetnica River. Two days
Of 32 tasks reported for implementation in 2009 (including
8 continuous, 12 continuations of tasks implemented
in 2008 and 12 new), the 16 tasks in total were implemented
in individual areas:
• environmental protection – 6 out of 12 tasks, 4 tasks
will be continued in 2010, while 2 tasks were given
the „uncompleted” status as a result of difficult macroeconomic
situation and their implementation was rescheduled
for later,
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