20645_Scapa_AR_160504

SUSTAINABILITY REPORT CONTINUED
PERFORMANCE
Over the last 12 months we have focused
our resource and initiatives on delivering
improvements in two key areas:
1. Increasing the level of EHS involvement
across the entire organisation
2. Improving the level of accountability and
expectation for continuous improvement
in health and safety
Although improvement has been achieved
and sustained, we believe the EHS
continuous improvement cycle is a journey.
Initiatives to improve involvement and
accountability will continue over the
foreseeable future to help us to further
reduce our accident potential.
Headline achievements
> > Introduced our Stop, Think & Ask
programme and identified over 6,000
safety opportunities. Programme being
further embedded throughout the Group
> > Completed over 3,500 corrective actions
> > Developed and deployed our Decision
Rights for Safety programme
> > Achieved two years without a Lost Time
Accident at our Renfrew operations and
four years at our Korea operations
> > Certified to ISO 50001 at our Ashton and
Dunstable locations enabling Scapa UK
to comply with the Energy Savings
Opportunity Scheme
> > 3.2% reduction in total emissions
> > Continued with the recruitment and
development of key EHS personnel to
support our philosophy of EHS continuous
improvement, involvement and
accountability
> > Invested over £400,000 in EHS
improvements, with plans for a further
£350,000 over the next 16 months
> > Embedded the Chief Operating Officer’s
six-monthly EHS review and cadence
framework
> > Completed four governance and compliance
audits against the (SSMAS) system
Unfortunately our lost accident frequency
rate has increased when compared with the
prior year, although the severity rate has
remained static. We recognise that accident
performance alone does not provide a
complete picture of our health and safety
performance. Our increased understanding
of our health and safety risk profile, coupled
with the pro-active initiatives and
programmes we have implemented, will
ensure a sustained reduction in our lost
time accident occurrence.
SAFETY PERFORMANCE 2015/2016
LTIFR (per 200,000)
1.6
1.3
1.8
1.2
1.6
2013 2014 2015 2016
ENVIRONMENT
Scapa recognises the importance of world
class environmental stewardship. To help
us deliver on this expectation, we apply
a structured approach to assessing,
maintaining and reducing our environmental
impact by:
> > Implementing and maintaining
environmental and energy management
systems based on international standards
> > Measuring and monitoring consumption
and emissions, and setting targets to
improve performance
> > Conducting environmental impact
assessments and developing site
improvement plans
> > Providing training to employees, and
engaging with customers and suppliers
to raise environmental awareness
> > Identifying and complying with all relevant
environmental laws and regulation
Given the diversity of Scapa’s international
operations, local management drives
environmental performance in accordance
with Group policy. Specific site-level
objectives are established to ensure
compliance with local legislative and external
management system requirements.
Scapa uses a variety of indicators to monitor
environmental performance, but the following
core impacts are identified for the Group as
a whole:
> > Greenhouse gas emissions from energy
use, including electricity, natural gas and
heating fuel
> > Use of resources
> > Generation and disposal of waste
The following assumptions, methodology,
definitions and data validation processes
have been used to report the Group’s key
environmental performance indicators in
2015. The reported data complies with the
Companies Act, for the Mandatory Reporting
of Greenhouse Gases.
> > Boundary scope: Data from all locations
over which the Company has operational
control is collected and measured
> > Primary data sources: These include
billing, invoices and other systems
provided by the supplier of the energy
to communicate energy consumption
> > Secondary data sources: These include the
Company’s internal systems used to record
and report the above consumption data
> > Internal data validation: The process used
to review and compare primary data with
secondary data
> > Conversion factors: The 2013 Government
GHG Conversion Factors for Company
Reporting, published by the UK
Department for Environmental Food &
Rural Affairs (DEFRA), are used when
converting gross emissions. The
applicable country conversion factors
published in this guidance have been
applied to operations outside of the UK
> > Intensity metric: Total carbon emissions
per £m of revenue are used to calculate
the Company’s intensity metric
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SCAPA GROUP PLC ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2016