Corporate responsibility report 2005 - Tata Steel

Environment
Policy statement
We are committed to minimising the environmental impact
of our operations and our products through the adoption
of sustainable practices and continuous improvement
in environmental performance.
Policy principles
Compliance – to meet the requirements of relevant
legislation in the countries and regions in which we operate.
Management systems – to implement effective
environmental management systems and to ensure
the environmental awareness of our workforce,
encouraging every employee to act in an environmentally
responsible manner.
Continuous improvement – to improve the environmental
performance of our processes and products through research
and development of new technologies, preventing and
reducing emissions and releases, minimising waste and
controlling noise.
Sustainable development – to contribute to sustainable
development by using energy, water and raw materials more
efficiently, thus optimising our use of natural resources.
Product stewardship – to promote the recovery, recycling
and reuse of our products, and to work with our customers
to understand the environmental effects of our products
throughout their life-cycle.
Monitoring and reporting – to monitor/audit environmental
performance and to report progress on policy objectives and
improvement targets on a regular basis.
Suppliers and contractors – to encourage suppliers
and contractors to behave in a responsible manner and to
maintain sound environmental practices.
Local communities and biodiversity – to respond to the
concerns of local communities and other interested parties on
environmental issues and to respect the general environment
and wildlife habitats in and around our sites.
Performance
Scope
The emissions data presented in this section of the report
covers all Corus Group manufacturing sites with the
exception of a small number of facilities within Corus
Distribution & Building Systems, which only make
a minor contribution to our overall emissions inventory.
Compliance
Our operations are complex and varied, and our stakeholders
have ever-increasing expectations about our performance.
This has been reflected in a general tightening of emission
limits over recent years. Nevertheless, our compliance with
statutory limits on both air and water emissions improved
during 2005 and we only narrowly missed our target of
99% compliance at the end of the year. Two factors were
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