2010Annual Report - Schneider Electric CZ, s.r.o.
2010Annual Report - Schneider Electric CZ, s.r.o.
2010Annual Report - Schneider Electric CZ, s.r.o.
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2 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT<br />
SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC’S COMMITMENT TO ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE<br />
70<br />
The majority of these PEPs will be brought into compliance with<br />
the demands of the PEP Ecopassport program, an environmental<br />
declaration program which complies with the ISO 14025 standard<br />
launched in 2010. The program, which covers all electrical and<br />
HVAC equipment for buildings, infrastructure and industry, attests<br />
compliance with prevailing standards and practices. <strong>Schneider</strong><br />
<strong>Electric</strong> is chairing the program and its Steering Committee, and has<br />
led the drafting of the governance rules and the PEPs, the articles of<br />
association managing by the program.<br />
<strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong>’s product development process complies with<br />
“IEC 62430 – Environmentally Conscious Design for <strong>Electric</strong>al and<br />
Electronic Products” – and is based on a multi-criteria lifecycle<br />
analysis.<br />
5 Eco-Production<br />
<strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong>’s Approach<br />
<strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> wants to have more sites with an environmental<br />
management and reporting system, contributing to the Group’s<br />
objectives. Priority objectives for 2009-2011 to increase the number<br />
of employees working in ISO 14001 certifi ed sites and to reduce its<br />
energy consumption were set within the framework of the Planet &<br />
Society Barometer for the whole Group. The certifi cation objective<br />
helps focus continuous efforts to reduce the main environmental<br />
impacts of the sites, shown in the table on pages 97-98:<br />
• amount of waste produced;<br />
• percentage of waste recovered;<br />
• consumption of energy;<br />
• consumption of water;<br />
• CO 2 emissions;<br />
• VOC emissions (Volatile Organic Compounds).<br />
Main Plans of Action in 2010<br />
ISO 14001 certification of Group sites<br />
As soon as the ISO 14001 environmental management standard was<br />
published in 1996, <strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> decided to certify its sites. For<br />
several years the Group has demanded that all industrial and logistic<br />
sites with more than 50 people be ISO 14001 certifi ed within two<br />
years of their acquisition or creation.<br />
The extension of this internal directive to all tertiary sites with more<br />
than 300 people was enacted in the One program from 2009<br />
onwards and actually launched in 2010. The headquarters of the<br />
Group in France, in Rueil-Malmaison, was thus certifi ed in 2010.<br />
The Group’s priority objective, as set out in the Planet & Society<br />
Barometer, is to enable two thirds of employees to work in<br />
ISO 14001 certifi ed sites. In 2010 the objective was exceeded: 69%<br />
of employees worked on ISO 14001-certifi ed sites.<br />
In 2010, the rate of certifi ed industrial sites is nearly achieved: 251<br />
sites covering 82,373 people (including all the people working for<br />
<strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> on the site) were ISO 14001 certifi ed at the end<br />
of 2010.<br />
2010 REGISTRATION DOCUMENT SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC<br />
End-of-life guides<br />
<strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> takes end-of-life environmental impact into<br />
account when designing products, going beyond the simple<br />
calculation of potential recovery rates provided by Environmental<br />
Impact and Management Explorer (EIME) software. The Group has<br />
developed a guide of good design practices to optimise end-of-life<br />
costs and the potential recyclability rate.<br />
In 2010, <strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> included recommendations and good<br />
practices for environmentally friendly end-of-life processing in its<br />
product instruction manuals. At the end of 2010, about 40% of<br />
the turnover generated from global commercial products was from<br />
products whose end-of-life information is available online.<br />
For 2011 the challenge is to certify the new sites within two years<br />
of their acquisition or creation and to continue the new certifi cations<br />
of large tertiary sites.<br />
Management of industrial consumption<br />
Water consumption<br />
The Group provides a detailed breakdown of water consumption that<br />
takes into account groundwater and water from the public network.<br />
Water used solely for cooling and then immediately released without<br />
any change can also be included in the statistics.<br />
<strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> reports on the quantities of water consumed<br />
by its sites on a six-monthly basis and monitors the per capita<br />
consumption of water on a like-for-like basis in order to evaluate its<br />
performance from one year to the next.<br />
The overall eco-production approach allowed the Group to reduce its<br />
per capita consumption of water by 6.5% in 2010 in relation to 2009<br />
on a like-for-like basis. The Group has not deployed any specifi c<br />
Group action plan in this area in 2010.<br />
Energy consumption<br />
See Reduction of CO emissions, page 64, and Energy savings,<br />
2<br />
page 66.<br />
Raw material consumption<br />
<strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> focuses on making its devices more compact<br />
to conserve natural resources so that customers have more<br />
environmentally friendly products to choose from. The Group<br />
has developed design tools for managing thermal and electrical<br />
constraints so that it can optimise the amount of materials required<br />
in production. Each device’s Product Environmental Profi le lists the<br />
materials used. To facilitate end-of-life processing, <strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong><br />
chooses materials that are easy to recycle and clip-together systems<br />
that are easy to disassemble. Life cycle analyses and recyclability<br />
assessments also help the Group identify areas for improvement.<br />
<strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> has not had any specifi c Group action plan in<br />
this area in 2010.