Global Compact International Yearbook Ausgabe 2010

Best Practice
Environment
ISA’s social responsibility business model
has experienced remarkable advances
during the last years, especially in environmental
and occupational health
international standards, highlighting
sustainability as its management axis. It
is manifest in the management through
balanced relationships with the interest
groups and supported through a set of
values, practices, and liabilities that add
value, generate confidence, and contribute
to the sustainable development of
the societies where ISA is present.
According to its business policies,
ISA develops its operations in a sustainable
environmental development
framework: 1) through an administration
that is oriented toward managing
environmental risks and contingencies;
and 2) that is supported through effective
planning of its electric assets in the areas
of design, construction, operation and
maintenance, and dismantling.
Progress from ISO 14001
certification and integral
management system
ISO 14001 certification represents the
company’s concern with adjusting to
international standards that facilitate
the accomplishment of its environmental
policy and facilitate an advancement
in Principles 7, 8, and 9 of the Global
Compact. To reach this goal, since 2008
the company has been following a path
that involves environmental authorities,
a board of directors, collaborators, and
suppliers – all of whom have been
exceptionally relevant in guaranteeing
project success and assuring the identification,
evaluation, prevention, mitigation,
control of, and compensation for
environmental impacts.
ISA: Linear infrastructure systems that
promote the continent’s development
Most relevant impacts identification
– the first step to mitigation
Essential elements of the energy transport
business are the operation and system
maintenance activities, which have
a high impact within the wide operation
zones in which the company works. To
help identify the environmental issues
and the most significant impacts, the
company developed a methodology
based on the ISO 14001 standard. The
methodology includes: 1) environmental
planning; 2) annual objectives, goals, and
improvement programs identification;
3) efficient management measures; 4)
permanent operations control; 5) deviations
identification; and 6) indicator
measures.
Through this recording informationmechanism,
the company is conscious of
consumption and/or use of natural resources
and, based on this data, develops
– along with its employees – awareness
activities to improve management.
Resource consumption and
employee awareness
The levels of resource consumption in
the company for paper, water, electricity,
as well as waste integral management
was noted. To address the issue, the
campaign El Vaso del Dia (glass of the
day) was set up, which was intended
to transform 120,000 plastic units into
approximately 30,000 eco-friendly units
(paper pulp). Twenty days from the start,
the recorded consumption was reduced
by nearly 30 percent. In addition, composting
management represents at the
moment 50 kilograms of organic material
per day, which comes from the restaurant,
the coffee machines, and the gardens.
Progress of dangerous residual
management
Environmental risks in the energy transmission
process come from the use and
manipulation of chemical products –
with oil, in all its forms, being the main
one. As a leak-prevention method, ISA
built or adapted collecting pools to four
zigzag transformers. The company treats
the contaminated oil, which is equivalent
to 0.3 percent of the total amount of oil,
with PCB. During the period, it generated
9.7 tons of contaminated oil. It was then
handed over to LITO, the company in
charge of its final disposal at its EKOKEN
incineration plant in Finland.
To control greenhouse gas effects
Greenhouse gas management is an enormous
concern to the company. Since
2008, ISA has been working with an
SF6 management program which, in
2009, enabled ISA to reduce gas purchases
as a result of the improvement in
maintenance processes and helped solve
outflows problem, reducing the amount
of SF6 lost to 0.47 percent.
Support to regional institutions
Supporting the work of 10 autonomous
regional corporations and with direct
and committed participation with the
impacted communities, ISA has intervened
and had a positive effect on nearly
1.1 million hectares of strategic regional
ecosystems.
Supplier linking
One of most relevant issues is supplier
linking. The commitment is based on
three fundamental pillars: 1) procedure
adoption and modification; 2) clean technologies
adoption; 3) implementation
of dispositions based on occupational
health and environmental norms.
Closing: articulated work
We are proud of the certification process
in addition to having raised environmental
management standards. We
have improved the feedback processes
and, as a consequence, strengthened the
company, its collaborators, and suppliers.
We have strengthened mutual relationships,
generated room for sustainable
development, in addition to increasing
performance optimization and our overall
business position.
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