OUR COMMITMENT TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

SAFETY, HEALTH &
ENVIRONMENT (SH&E)
L’Oréal is passionate about improving the group’s performance on safety, health and
environment. Our constant aim is to reduce our impacts on the environment and reduce
the number and severity of accidents.
OUR PERFORMANCE
In 2005, at our 42 factories and 75 warehouses around the world, we:
■ cut our total energy use by 1% per finished product;
■ cut our water use by 4% per finished product;
■ reduced our overall injury rate by 21% for L'Oréal employees,
and by 36% for temporary employees;
■ certified all but two of our factories to ISO 14001, an internationallyrecognised
environmental management system.
TOTAL ENERGY USED IN 2005
836 million of kWh
LOST TIME INJURY RATE
-3.1%
Unfortunately we did not meet our target to reduce the amount of waste
generated per finished product. We also had an injury rate above our target of
2.5 million hours worked in 19 of 42 factories and 20 of 75 warehouses. We
are working hard to remedy these shortfalls.
Our commitment to sustainable development_L’ORÉAL
WATER CONSUMPTION
3,214,000 M 3
DIRECT CO 2 EMISSIONS
92.7 thousand tonnes
� OUR TARGETS FOR 2006
This year we aim to:
■ cut energy use by a further
5% per finished product;
■ reduce our direct carbon
dioxide (CO 2) emissions by
2% per finished product;
■ cut water use by 10% per
unit of finished product from
2002 levels;
■ reduce waste generated
per finished product by 5%;
■ reduce our injury rate by
a further 24% to 2.5 injuries
per million hours worked.