Continued

Employee Well-Being
Elementis aims to create a work environment where the physical and mental health of our people is seen as paramount, and where we proactively manage all health issues.

We are committed to adopting best practice as our Well-Being standard, and will take steps to close identified gaps during 2004/2005. This involves the implementation of a co-ordinated and integrated range of regional initiatives that focus on both prevention and cure of health issues. Once implemented, all Elementis operations will meet regional best practice in the areas of employee assistance programmes, health awareness, health screening, HIV education and support as well as longterm disability and sickness programmes.

Our commitment to the environment
At Elementis, it is our policy to manage our environmental obligations responsibly, and with careful regard for sustainable development. In our decision-making we seek to establish a balance between our financial growth targets and reducing our impact on the environment.

Our twin goals are zero environmental incidents and a continual improvement in environmental performance.

In recent years we have successfully reduced the number of environmental incidents and we are working to ensure that this reduction continues. Our target for 2004 is zero environmental incidents at a level that requires reporting to the relevant regulatory authority. We have in place processes and procedures to ensure that minor spills and leaks are subject to a full incident investigation process, reinforcing our culture of zero tolerance of environmental incidents.

As a result of these and other measures our environmental performance for on-going businesses has improved significantly in recent years with just five minor incidents occurring in 2003, down from eight in 2002 and 27 in 2001.

Environmental incidents (number)

Environmental monitoring
Emissions to air, discharges to water and solid waste, together with energy and water consumption are monitored and reported by Elementis as required for permits or licences issued by regulatory authorities. Beyond that we recognise the importance of using the data as a basis for further reductions in emissions, discharges and solid waste sent to landfill.

Emissions to air
We began the introduction of monitoring for air emissions, on a company-wide basis, during the course of 2002/2003. As a result data for some sites are sparse and it is therefore too early to show trends. Future reports will include data which allow trends to be assessed.

Discharges to water
We measure water quality in terms of the Biological Oxygen Demand, Chemical Oxygen Demand and Total Suspended Solids. Since comprehensive data collection only began in 2002 it is not yet possible to discern meaningful trends.

Solid waste
Due to the nature of our business,we generate a certain quantity of hazardous waste. The volume of this waste has been reduced ten fold since 1999, due in large part to the introduction of a residue treatment process at our Eaglescliffe, UK, chromium plant.

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