Health Safety & Environment

Health, Safety and the Environment (HSE) lie at the very heart of the Bureau Veritas Group's culture and activities. Our global mission is to develop innovative, efficient and flexible solutions for our customers.

The means and tools that we offer enable our customers to make continuous improvements in their sectors, while the HSE programs we provide have played a major role in spreading sustainable development worldwide.

Beyond the immediate effects of our products and services, Bureau Veritas is striving to improve its approach in all aspects of HSE management, covering environmental impact and relationships with customers, employees and suppliers. We are committed to continue implementing internally the best practices that we preach externally.

To know more about Bureau Veritas' internal commitment to Health, Safety and Environment.

Charlotte Breuil, Group HSE Manager

POLICY

Our HSE Statement

In 2007, our CEO made our commitment official through the HSE Group Statement.

This document is the blueprint of our HSE management system: it is displayed in all sites and presented in all the induction training courses, and all the HSE actions that are launched within the Group derive from it.

PROGRAMS

Our commitment is reinforced by the specific HSE programs that we have developed. To find out more about these programs' objectives and benefits, and for case studies showing how they have been implemented, click on the relevant program title below:

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Preventive driving	Ionizing Radiation audits


Energy & Waste	Carbon footprint

INDICATORS

Quantified goals have been set up to address three safety and three environmental performance indicators (KPIs) for Bureau Veritas operations and the implementation of its HSE Management System. Biannual reporting was started in 2007 to monitor the company’s performance.

The safety performance indicators are tracked worldwide, covering all Bureau Veritas entities.

KPIs

2008

2009

2010

2011*

(YTD)

2011 Objectives

LTR

0,86

0,75

0,69

0,74

0,59

TAR

2,18

1,62

1,58

1,68

1,42

ASR

0,05

0,07

0,06

Not set

*2011 results take into account Q1 and Q2 data.

The environmental performance indicators are based on individual entities' participation in the Energy & Waste program.

2011* Key performance indicators	Unit	Offices	Laboratories
Energy Consumption	MWh/year/person	2,6	5,2
Water Consumption	Metric tons/year/person	16,9	39,4
Paper Consumption	Kg/year/person	27,0	53,6

*2011 results take into account S1 data.

DEFINITIONS

Safety performance indicators

LTR	Number of Lost-Time accidents x 200 000 Total number of hours worked
LTR = Lost Time Rate	This is equivalent to the number of work-related lost-time accidents per 100 employees
TAR = Total Accident Rate	This is equivalent to the total number of work-related accidents (with and without lost time) per 100 employees
TAR	Number of Total accidents x 200 000 Total number of hours worked
ASR = Accident Severity Rate	This is equivalent to the number of lost work days per 1000 hours worked
ASR	Number of Lost days due to work-related lost-time accidents x 1000 Total number of hours worked

Environmental performance indicators

The collected energy, water and paper consumption information is used to calculate Group environmental indicators which are the evolutions of:

Energy consumption compared to previous year;

Water consumption compared to previous year;

Paper consumption compared to previous year.

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