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Industrial and plant safety, protection of health and the environment |
Compliance with all legislation to protect human beings and the environment is one of the company’s basic tenets for both legal and ethical reasons. This applies to our products as well as to our processes.
Each employee shares in the responsibility to protect human beings and the environment in his or her area of work. All applicable laws and regulations on environmental protection or plant and industrial safety must be fully complied with. The same applies to the company’s own guidelines and rules. Each superior has the duty to instruct, supervise and support his or her employees in assuming this responsibility. In areas where there are no safety, health, environmental regulations or company guidelines or standards, employees must make decisions on their own initiative, where necessary in consultation with their superior.
In general, air, water and land may be used for industrial purposes only within the framework of previously granted approvals. The same applies when erecting and operating or modifying and extending production plants. Every unauthorized release of substances must be avoided.
Waste must be disposed of in accordance with legal requirements. If the services of third parties are used for this purpose, it must be ensured that they, too, comply with environmental regulations and the company’s standards.
Our company goes beyond the requirements of current legislation and constantly strives to improve procedures and processes to further reduce environmental impacts and health hazards. However, if incidents or plant malfunctions nevertheless occur, it is our goal to initiate the appropriate emergency response and damage repair measures as promptly and as precisely as possible. Therefore, the relevant company units must be immediately and comprehensively informed. Also, these units have to communicate to the authorities immediately and in detail the information required by law. Unless otherwise provided for by legal regulations or agreements with the authorities, the units responsible for environmental protection must also exercise their duty to warn and inform the neighborhood.
Due to the report as such, employees need not fear any disadvantages. Omitted, delayed or incomplete reports are not in the company’s interest.
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