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Cytec’s Safety,
Health and Environment (SHE)
2010 Performance and 2011 Goals
For more details about our
performance, please
download Cytec's
2010 Sustainability Report.
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Employee Safety |
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Cytec’s goal is zero injuries. Safety is our number one
priority, and we strive to achieve an injury-free
workplace. Our leaders made commitments to safety
through Cytec’s Visible Safety Leadership Program, which
began in 2008. We continued our commitment to safety in
2009 by investing approximately $14 million in safety
capital to reduce the potential for process incidents
and other risk. Cytec also renewed its focus on
incorporating safety, health and environmental aspects
in product and process design, and we are working to
integrate our Design for SHE (DFSHE) principles into
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Injuries
For 2009, our Recordable Injury Frequency on a global
basis was 0.84, improving our performance by six percent
against 2008, which marks our best performance to date.
Nearly 50 percent of our manufacturing sites had no
recordable injuries in 2009. While we are pleased with
the performance improvement, we remain focused on
continuously reducing injuries, and have again set a 10
percent improvement target for 2010. Our lost time
injury frequency was 0.37 in 2008 and 0.28 in 2009. This
represents a dramatic improvement, especially during a
difficult economic time when safety performance
typically slips.
Process Safety
We define the most serious process incidents as
unplanned process incidents that could cause injuries or
monetary damage. During 2009, we had six such incidents
that met these criteria. The increase can partially be
explained by a change in our metric. However, we are
focusing on reducing these and our potential for
exposure to process incidents. We are also improving our
systems to investigate the root causes of these
incidents. We have further refined our process safety
incident metric to be consistent with the Center for
Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) metric as we move
forward. Our goal for 2010 is to reduce all process
safety incidents by five percent.
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| Our Employees
and Our Communities |
Cytec employees are actively involved in the communities in
which they live and work. Volunteers participate in
educational activities, health and human service programs
and environmental initiatives. Giving back to the
communities in which we operate has been a long standing
part of Cytec’s history. We have a decentralized approach to
community involvement. Donations and participation in
specific initiatives are determined locally by regional
needs and cultures. Some examples of involvement in 2009
include:
• Mentoring students, participating in science fairs and
hosting plant tours
• Awarding scholarships to students excelling in science
• Supporting fund-raisers through volunteerism and giving
• Hosting community health fairs and blood drives
• Hosting environmental awareness
events including tree plantings and recycling activities.
Several
of our manufacturing facilities are also involved in
Community Advisory Panels (CAP).
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Resource Use |
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During 2009, Cytec utilized a new environmental metrics
tracking system that captures all waste, energy,
greenhouse gas, Sulfur Oxides/ Nitrous Oxides (SOx/NOx),
water consumption, and related data. This system is
helping our sites track and monitor their performance
against targets. One of Cytec’s top goals is to reduce
waste and energy usage across the Company. We have set
five-year targets of 15 percent improvement in waste
reduction and energy efficiency and are working towards
achieving these long-term goals.
Waste and
Energy Efficiency
Cytec’s operations improvement initiatives have focused
on reducing waste and energy consumption at our
manufacturing sites. In absolute terms, in 2009, Cytec
reduced energy use by 12 percent and reduced waste by 32
percent for the same period, as compared to 2008. The
Company has well established processes and tools such as
Six Sigma, Lean and Workout, which are used to support
continuous improvement across the company. These tools
have helped Cytec find opportunities to reduce waste and
energy use at our facilities.
Greenhouse Gas
Emissions
Since joining EPA Climate Leaders in 2007, Cytec has
been in the process of reviewing energy data and
Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions data, as well as
reviewing progress against our five-year goal to reduce
emissions of CO2 equivalents by 12 percent per kilogram
of product. We will be tracking additional GHGs as we
move forward with the EPA Climate Leaders Program.
Cytec’s GHG emissions are primarily from energy usage,
natural gas, steam and electricity, and from chemical
processes.
Other Emissions
Cytec tracks all releases of materials to the
environment, including air, water and land, as well as
releases to secondary containment, including air
pollution control equipment and wastewater treatment
systems. Our sites have had a continuous improvement
goal to reduce all unanticipated emissions to the
environment by 10 percent, year-on-year
(see chart below). During 2009, the number of releases
to the environment greater than one pound of material
was 80, the same as in 2008. For those facilities that
did not show improvement, plans are in place to identify
needs and implement activities to address operations,
data collection and analysis. |
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Sustainability Innovation |
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In 2008, Cytec integrated sustainability and green
chemistry practices into its R&D programs. In 2009,
we worked to spread this practice throughout the
company. The establishment of a high-level
Sustainability Council created a high-level dialogue
around the sustainability direction for the company
going forward. Additionally, a Sustainability
Community of Practice (SusCoP) was formed to act as
a communication hub and help disseminate
sustainability-related information to all functional
groups within Cytec. The SusCoP is also the
information arm of the Sustainability Council,
acting as their resource to develop tactical
approaches to the use of renewable raw materials and
expansion of the metrics we use to measure
sustainability. Cytec has also provided
sustainability training for all employees, having rolled out the
first stage, an overview of sustainability and its
application within Cytec, late in 2009. Additional
stages will address the specific activities and
actions applicable to various functional groups
within Cytec, such as manufacturing, procurement and
R&D.
Read about some of Cytec's sustainable products in
our
2009 Sustainability Report. |
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SHE
Management Systems |
Cytec continues to fully implement an externally
certified SHE Management System on a global basis. Our
system incorporates ISO 14001 (environment), RC14001,
security, product stewardship, emergency response, and
value chain management requirements and has just
recently included OHSAS 18001 (occupational safety). In
2009, all but three facilities successfully implemented
the SHE Management System. The remaining sites will
complete the implementation of their systems in 2010.
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Plant Security |
Cytec is committed to security at all of our locations.
This is an important component of our SHE Management
System requirements, with a purpose of helping to
protect people, property, products, processes,
information and information systems by enhancing
security, including security against potential terrorist
attack, not only at plant locations, but throughout the
chemical industry value chain.
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| Cytec's 2010
and Long-Term Goals |
Cytec is on a journey toward the
implementation of sustainable practices in all aspects of
our business. Our vision is to be a world leader in safety,
health and environmental performance, and we have set
long-term improvement goals to assess our performance and
track progress.
2010 Goals
Cytec’s objective for 2010 is to
continue improving against 2009 performance. During 2010, Cytec
is committed to the following goals:
- Reducing the Recordable Injury Frequency by 10 percent against
the 2009 rate
- Achieving a 5 percent reduction in all process safety
incidents across Cytec from 2009
- Achieving 10 percent reduction in accidental environmental
releases greater than 1 pound from 2009 levels
- Achieving a 3 percent improvement in energy efficiency and 2
percent improvement in CO2
intensity against 2009
- Achieving a 3 percent improvement on waste reduction per
kilogram of products against 2009
- Fully implementing the SHE Management System at all of our
manufacturing sites and R&D sites on a global basis by year end
2010.
Long-Term
Goals
Cytec is committed to the following long-term goals:
• Reducing the Recordable Injury Frequency rate to
0.5
• Improving global energy efficiency by 15 percent by 2012
• Improving global greenhouse gas emissions intensity (CO2
equivalents per kg of product) by 12 percent by 2012
• Reducing global waste generation by 15 percent by 2012.
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