Environmental, Health & Safety Management

All of our locations are implementing and maturing our EHS management systems as part of ANBC Holding International Execution Excellence. Our enterprise EHS data management system is Gensuite. Gensuite’s automated system provide us improved data accuracy and visibility, while also providing mobile tracking and significantly enhancing our data mining and reporting capabilities.

The EHS staff uses the Gensuite output to provide regular reports on EHS progress to the executive leadership team. In a self-sustaining cycle, the insights in these reports lead to training and programming initiatives that drive continuous improvement in our EHS performance.

Our EHS management systems focus on performance monitoring and improvement in the following areas, among others:

• Pollution prevention, environmental management, and integrated permitting
• Air emission management
• Water supply management, including a unique water quality management system
• Hazardous substance management
• General safety and health management
• Personal protective equipment
• Wastewater discharges management
• Waste management
• Dangerous substances
• Physical hazards
• Mechanical hazards
• Fire protection

Our corporate EHS group regularly monitors facility-level performance in these areas against global EHS standards and applicable regulatory requirements. We use a combination of third-party consultants and EHS staff to arrange independent audits of each ANBC Holding International site at least once every three years. We also conduct annual self-assessments following a standard protocol to identify opportunities to improve EHS performance. All personnel directly related to operations and Services activities receive EHS training annually. Indirect and enterprise personnel receive EHS training upon initial hire, and then periodically thereafter based upon individual risk and exposures.

Our foundation for recording and reporting accidents is the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Organization (OSHA), regulation 29CFR1904. This standard is applied to ANBC Holding International sites globally. Additionally, sites will comply with local regulations when they are stricter than the US OSHA standard. 

Employees have a number of ways to be involved in health and safety programs. Global health issues are addressed through multiple mechanisms. These issues include, among others, high-risk travel destinations, global crisis emergency planning, practices for emergency medical responders, and company health programs. 

Energy Efficiency

Complementing our product-related sustainability initiatives are actions designed to reduce the environmental impact of our own operations and business policies, processes and practices. We are retrofitting our facilities with new equipment that is energy and operationally efficient. To improve fleet fuel efficiency we are making vehicle choices available that significantly increase our fuel economy and reduce emissions. We are designing smaller more efficient mobile workplaces and we’re introducing alternate fuel vehicles with improved fuel economy and lower emissions. In addition, we are reducing the use of high-GWP foam blowing agents in our operations.