HSE

To us, sustainability is about people, the environment and job satisfaction
Health, safety and environment. These three words describe our efforts to continually make Svendborg Brakes a more sustainable company. We have three goals for this work. We aim to achieve consistently high standards of Health & Safety throughout our organisation. We strive to constantly improve our focus on the environmental impact of our activities. And finally, we aim to improve the working environment at our factories.

Our goal is zero accidents
We work with a stringent focus on creating a very clear and easily understandable policy and practice when it comes to Health & Safety. The goal of this work is undeniably clear: We strive to maintain a exceptionally high safety standard. We want to ensure that we have zero accidents. To achieve this goal, we guide staff through a management system that quickly, effectively and systematically creates a positive safety culture. We examine work processes, identify potentially dangerous situations and eliminate these when possible.

The work at our production facilities primarily consists of assembling products. The level of risk here is relatively low. However, we work diligently to eliminate the elements of risk that do exist. After all: Safety is our business. This means that the workplace must also be safe. To support these goals, we keep close track of all incidents reported to our HR division. We consider incidents as accidents that nearly happened and we use these reports as an early warning system to identify safety issues in our system.

The Svendborg Brakes health and safety management system is being developed in accordance with the internationally recognised OHSAS 18001 framework.

Carbon Foodprint
October 2010

Minimizing our global environmental footprint is essential to Svendborg Brakes, and we have started the process of achieving global certification of our sites according to the international ISO 14001 standard by 2012.

We have since 2009 been tracking our consumption of electricity, water, gas and oil to be able to track our performance over time.

A large part of the energy supplied to us derives from green energy sources, mainly wind energy - in fact, 100 pct of the energy supplied to our facilities in Germany and Denmark in 2010 derives from green sources.

It is unfortunately currently not possible to select the source of energy in China, for which reason around 50 pct of the total energy supplied to the Svendborg Brakes group in 2010 derived from green energy sources.

In the beginning of 2010 we identified Svendborg Brakes' carbon footprint for 2009, i.e. the CO2 emissions generated from our operations, and are working towards also being able to identify and map the indirect carbon footprint made by Svendborg Brakes, including i.e. the impact of our supply chain*. This will enable us to track our environmental performance in all aspects of our business and will provide us with the foundation for sustained improvements.

We will be benchmarking our CO2 emission against work hours on a bi-yearly basis, and the figures for 2009 and the first half of 2010 are:

2009:                                                                            4.26 tonnes CO2/thousand work hours*
2010 (6 months):                        5.46 tonnes CO2/thousand work hours*

Below you will see how the emission is split on scopes 1, 2 and 3, respectively*:

The increase in emissions seen from 2009 to 2010 is mainly due to the increase in travelling from Europe to China and vice versa (scope 3) in connection with setting up our new factory in Shanghai, but also to the increase in electricity consumption (scope 2) in China, which has - due to the larger facility there - almost tripled compared to 2009.

*Our CO2 calculations are based on the principles described in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard - also called the GHG protocol (see also: http://www.ghgprotocol.org/files/ghg-protocol-revised.pdf), where CO2 emissions are split into 3 scopes. The 3 scopes are briefly described below:

Scope 1: Direct emissions (activities owned or controlled by the organisation that release emissions direct to the atmosphere e.g. emissions from owned or controlled boilers, furnaces, process equipment, vehicles etc)

Scope 2: Energy indirect (emissions released into atmosphere that are a consequence of your activities but which occur at sources you do not own or control e.g. emissions associated with your consumption of electricity, heat, steam, cooling)

Scope 3: Other indirect (all other activities that release emissions as a consequence of your activities, but not indirect energy sources and which occur at sources beyond your control e.g. business travel, use of sold products or services, waste disposal) - in Svendborg Brakes this is currently mainly business travel.