Sustainable Development

World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Cement Sustainability Initiative (WBCSD-CSI)

1. Climate Protection and Fuels and Raw Materials Consumption
   
   Cement Business sets a target to emit specific net carbon dioxide, not exceeding than 620 kg carbon dioxide/ton cement within 2020 or reducing carbon dioxide at least 10% within 2020, compared to 2007. Production process is developed and improved alongside with innovation to reduce carbon dioxide emission, including enhancement of efficiency energy used, increase proportion in renewable energy used such as refuse derived fuel (RDF), biomass and industrial waste and production of products and services which support greenhouse gas reduction.
   
   For energy management in cement plant, Cement Business adopts advanced production technology in use and improves machinery to reduce heat consumption per
   production unit continually by initiating a project on Waste Heat Power Generation (WHG); waste is generated by clinker production process, and installing WHG at all cement plants.
   
   For energy consumption and renewable raw materials, SCG improves machinery to support efficiency renewable fuel used, comprising biomass, and industrial waste and refuses derived fuel (RDF). For RDF, SCG has collaborated with communities nearby the plant to segregate wastes from communities such as cloth, plastic and paper scraps and sent them into transformation process prior use as fuels in cement production process. This is an appropriate waste disposal approach which does not cause environmental impacts and does not cause a burden to take care of landfill that may cause problems to nearby communities.
   
   
2. Emission Monitoring
   
   Major air emissions of cement industry are control or minimize, e.g. dust, oxides of nitrogen and sulfur dioxide. Cement Business target and control air emissions in accordance with WBCSD-CSI. Dust oxides of nitrogen and sulfur dioxide emission from kiln shall not exceed 150 g/clinker, 1,700 g/clinker and 120 g/clinker, respectively.
   
   In addition, Cement Business has measured dust, oxides of nitrogen and sulfur dioxide besides other air pollutants consist of Dioxin, Mercury, Cadmium, Lead, Antimony, Arsenic, Beryllium, Chromium, Cobalt, Copper, Manganese, Nickel, Vanadium and total organic carbon from spot check in accordance with government requirement (quarterly basis).
   
   Moreover, SCG Cement has installed sulfur dioxide treatment system (Gas Suspension Absorber: GSA) which is efficiency to reduce 80%-90% of sulfur dioxide.
   
   
3. Local Impact
   
   Prior to any project implementation of quarry or cement plant, environmental impact assessment and study are required to conduct appropriate environmental and social mitigation measures at acceptable level. Guidelines the SCG Cement adopts are based on relevant government agencies and WBCSD-CSI.
   
   Cement Business implements quarry rehabilitation in accordance with forestry principle and works in collaboration with external experts to conduct framework for quarry
   rehabilitation plan, set up effective quarry rehabilitation forms and technics. Also, SCG implements activities in compliance with WBCSD-CSI Guidance on Quarry Rehabilitation.
   
   Cement Business focuses on community relations and stakeholder engagement in compliance with SCG's clear vision on corporate social responsibility.
   
   
4. Health and Safety
   
   Cement Business has continuously committed to the safety which is aimed to be an organization of zero accident and work-related diseases. As such, a zero fatality and lost-time injury related to the accident have been set. According to the performance of 2014, this target has not been accomplished yet since there was a lost time injury of one employee. As for the contractor, the accidents have increased and caused three fatality cases and two cases of lost time injury. In addition, there were four cases of fatality of third parties. However, this was because of re-organization of the businesses which have included a logistic business into the same management. Consequently, the accidents related to cement logistic have been added to Cement Business too. This is therefore a challenging task for Cement Business to accomplish.
   
   Guidelines complied by Cement Business in order to develop a safety of contractor are the improvement of safety management of contractor so that they can manage the
   safety by themselves which we call 'SCG Contractor Safety Certification System or SCS'. This project has been aligned with the Good Practice of Contractor Safety developed by WBCSD-CSI and the Cement Business adopted this Guidelines to be complied with SCG's guidelines. At present, this Guideline has been employed so as to monitor and assess the effectiveness of safety management of contractors continuously.
   
   In case of accidents related to the logistic, Cement Business have complied with WBCSD-CSI's Good Practice of Driving safety for logistic of concrete activities. After the good practices have been adopted, the fatality from accident of logistic of concrete activities have been dropped gradually. However, Cement Business shall apply such good practice to the cement logistic system which have been included in the same management.
   
   
5. Reporting
   
   To assure the integrity and the transparency of Cement Business performance data, Cement Business has requested external party to assure emission data.

WBCSD-CSI Operating Results of Cement Business

* The collection and reporting of GHGs data is accordance with WBCSD,The Cement CO2 Protocol based on company's own control
** Only domestic cement plants
*** Both domestic and overseas cement plants
**** Included accident data from cement transportation and excluded overseas cement plants.