Corporate responsibility report 2005 - Tata Steel

Our performance
in summary
What have we achieved?
• We have improved our health and safety performance –
our lost time injuries reduced by 24% in 2005.
• The high profile recognition of the importance of health
and safety was maintained in 2005 – 156 Executive
Committee safety tours were carried out.
• We developed and launched a further three mandatory
health and safety standards during 2005.
• 86% of our manufacturing operations have now been
certified to ISO 14001.
• Our compliance with emission limits improved during the
year to just under 99%.
Where do we need to improve?
• Despite the overall improvement in our health and safety
performance, we still had two fatalities in 2005 – our focus
on improving health and safety will continue in 2006.
• We will continue to improve our energy efficiency and
reduce our greenhouse gas emissions.
• We aim to further improve our level of compliance with
increasingly stringent emission limits and to further reduce
our production waste to landfill – we have set revised
improvement targets in these areas.
• We have a strong, established, compliance culture. This
year we will further embed our ethical business principles
with the delivery of a strengthened Code of Ethics.
• We are continuing to play a leading role in a major
European project to investigate and develop breakthrough
technologies for ultra-low CO 2
steelmaking.
• Our waste to landfill, excluding exceptional items, was
11.5% lower in 2005 compared to 2003.
• Life-cycle inventory environmental data is now available for
88% of our products.
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