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Performance Scorecard

UCB provides products that improve the quality of life for current and future generations, while creating value for the company, its stakeholders and society in general. Naturally therefore, we consider the effective management of Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) to be a priority.

UCB regularly tracks its EHS performance using the measures such as lost time injury rate, energy and water consumption, effluent discharge, waste recovery, carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide or nitrogen oxide emissions.

UCB's key EHS performance indicators are highlighted in the following 2008 EHS scorecard.

UCB is convinced that beyond the benefits for the environment, these efforts could lead naturally to innovation, help to reduce costs and reinforce relationships with all of our stakeholders, including the patients who are at the heart of all we do.

Health and safety Performance
2007 2008

Lost time injury rate

Number of injuries sustained at work where the person is unable to attend work for one or more days beyond the day on which the injury occurred as a consequence of the injury (per million hours worked)


There were no fatalities at UCB facilities in 2007 and 2008.

4.52

4.20

Resource consumption
2007 2008

Energy consumption (million gigajoules, GJ)(*)

By source:

  Purchased electricity (*)

  Natural gas

  Fuel oil (*)

 

1.40

 

0.57

0.71

0.12

1.43

 

0.59

0.70

0.14

Water consumption (thousand cubic metres, m3)

1 148

994

Waste water discharges 2007 2008

Strength of effluent discharged from UCB facilities (tonnes):

  Chemical oxygen demand (COD)

  Total suspended solids (TSS)

 

 

219

73

 

247

96

Waste Management 2007
2008

Total waste generated from UCB activities, excluding construction activities (tonnes)

Of which:

  Hazardous

  Non-hazardous

 

Waste recovery or valorisation techniques used were:

  Sent for incineration at facilities where flue gases are used to recover energy

  Use by third parties as a secondary liquid fuel

  Sent for recovery of solvents

  Packaging materials sent for recycling

  Other materials recycling

 

This equates to a waste recovery rate (%)

16 730

 


11 000

5 730

 

 

1 430

3 850

3 000

2 460

990

 

70

15 640

 


11 170

4 470

 

 

1 050

5 440

3 090

1 820

970

 

79

Releases to atmosphere 2007 2008

Emissions of VOCs (volatile organic compounds) to air, estimated by UCB manufacturing sites (tonnes):

  Non-chlorinated

  Chlorinated

 


130

<10

 


140

13

Estimated contributions to climate change from carbon dioxide emissions (tonnes CO2 equivalent)(*):

 

By source

  Electricity purchased from our suppliers

  Use of fossil fuels (gas and oil) at UCB facilities

  Refrigeration systems

114 900

 

 


68 000

45 700

1 200

 

117 940

 

 


70 000

47 090

1 300

 

Estimated emissions of sulphur dioxide from fossil fuel use (tonnes)

54

67

Estimated emissions of nitrogen oxides from fossil fuel use (tonnes)

51

54

Other information   2007 2008

Number of manufacturing facilities with accredited certification to the ISO 14001 environmental management system standard specification

 

  

4

4

Number of R&D, manufacturing, commercial affiliate and UCB corporate facilities worldwide contributing to health and safety data

 

  

52

58

Number of R&D, manufacturing, larger commercial affiliate and corporate facilities worldwide contributing to environmental data

  

21

18

(*) In 2008, new effluent treatment units on UCB site in Shannon (Ireland)