BASF Advances fixing objective global in environingingment, health and hygiene

BASF has increased his energetic efficiency in 20% in comparison with the figures of game of 2002 and has reduced his broadcasts of gases of effect invernadero by metric tonne of product sold in 34%. The number of labour accidents has diminished 58% in the same period. BASF Has fixed global aims on a long-term basis in matter of environingingment, health and hygiene for the year 2020: The quantity of labour accidents has to diminish 80% in comparison with the figures of 2002; in 2013 it achieved to reach a decrease of 58% in 2013. “It is an excellent result. Even so necessary that keep ours political, ‘Never put in danger the hygiene'. Only like this we can reach our aim and go back to reduce the number of current accidents to the half”, affirms Ulrich von Deessen, president of the Environingingment, Health and Safety Competence Center and Climate Protection Officer of BASF. In this sense, the company promotes the learning continued of his collaborators. In March of 2014 will carry out the second edition of the ‘Global ‘ Safey Days', days of global hygiene that will celebrate in the but of the different centres of the company and that will include more than 500 presentations, tutoriales and workshops all over the world.

BASF Also has foreseen to improve his sanitary ware management to promote the health and the productivity of the collaborators. In 2013 they realizar roughly 48.000 medical recognitions all over the world. BASF Aspires to reduce his broadcasts of gases of effect invernadero in 40% by metric tonne of product sold, in comparison with the figures of game of 2002 and increase the energetic efficiency (excluding oil and gas) in 35%. The company elevated his energetic efficiency in 20% in comparison with the figures of 2002 (22% in 2012) and reduced the broadcasts of gases of effect invernadero specific in 34% (33% in 2012).

“To supply power to our centres of production, depend on thermoelectric head offices combined that have turbines of gas and steam, and use the heat issued by the processes of production. Our chemical plants work with a level of efficiency above the average. In group, advance in the correct steering in matter of climatic protection. It is difficult to follow achieving big improvements because of the high level that already have reached”, explains von Deessen. In 2013, the total of broadcasts of contaminantes atmospheric reduced to 32.385 metric tonnes (30.581 metric tonnes in 2012) in comparison with the figures of 2002. What corresponds to a decrease of 62%. BASF Reduced also the broadcasts to the water of organic substances, heavy metals and nitrogen: the organic substances diminished in 79% (77% in 2012); the nitrogen kept in 87%, and the heavy metals diminished in 64% (57% in 2012) in comparison with the figures of 2002. The European Water Stewardship (EWS), voluntary industrial certification that delivers the independent organisation European Water Partnership, has awarded in almost all the European centres of BASF in zones with stress hídrico.