Arcelormittal Poland Corporate Responsibility 2011 Report
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www.arcelormittal.com/poland ArcelorMittal Poland al. Józefa Piłsudskiego 92 41-308 Dąbrowa Górnicza tel.: (32) 776 66 66 fax: (32) 776 82 00 ArcelorMittal Poland Your feedback on the report is most welcome. Corporate Responsibility Please send it to Karolina Muza, Head of Corporate Responsibility ArcelorMittal Poland. E-mail address: [email protected] 2011 Report Message from the Chairman of the Board • 01 Table of contents: Message from the Chairman of the Board Dear Reader, Message from the Chairman of the Board 1 We are pleased to present you with the second issue of ArcelorMittal Poland’s Corporate About ArcelorMittal Poland 3 Responsibility Report. Our aim behind the Investing in our people 7 series is to provide you with yearly update on our actions taken in the field of Corporate Health and Safety 10 Responsibility. Our strategy in this area is Employee assistance programme 16 focused on four pillars: making steel more Trainings 22 sustainable, investing in our people, Investing in future employees 28 transparent governance and enriching our Kindergarten 32 communities. Responding to employees’ needs 34 Steel is at the core of our Group’s vision. At the Making steel more sustainable 37 same time, it is what literally keeps the world running. Steel can be recycled endlessly, which Investments 40 makes it one of the most environmentally Environmental protection 42 friendly materials. Still, with environmental Enriching our communities 49 protection as one of our priorities, we are Motto committed to continuously improving our Social projects 52 environmental footprint. To achieve this plan, Public recognition 60 of ArcelorMittal: we invest in modern, energy efficient Transparent Governance 65 technologies and state-of-the-art installations. One of the projects completed in 2011, which Compliance Programme 66 "transforming tomorrow" should be mentioned here, is the noise reduction programme at our plants, for which we were awarded a prestigious ‘Eco-Laurel’ by the Polish Chamber of Ecology. Because we want to make sure that our stakeholders are correctly informed about latest developments, we are constantly involved in social dialogue on environmental protection. Our Green Officer answers all the enquiries and concerns of local communities About ArcelorMittal Poland • 02/03 About ArcelorMittal Poland via a toll free telephone line or e-mail. We are In 2011 we also made efforts to promote Over the past years we have developed our We change the image also a host of Environmental Forums, which health and wellness. Our ”Health Week” was stakeholders’ engagement matrix and of the Polish steel industry and we are changing tomorrow are discussion platforms dedicated to quite popular among our employees and we familiarized ourselves with their needs and neighbouring business entities, as well as were particularly delighted to see an expectations. We support them in areas such In 2004 ArcelorMittal Poland, operating ArcelorMittal Poland is a part of the biggest NGOs and environmental protection enthusiastic response to our ”Stop smoking as education, healthcare, environment, sport, at that time as a part of LNM Holding, took steel producing company in the world, authorities. with ArcelorMittal” action, which attracted arts and culture, as well as volunteering at up a difficult task of restructuring and with operations in 60 countries and over over 400 people. However, not only physical locations in close proximity to our plants. modernizing Polskie Huty Stali. Today, eight 260 thousand employees. This figure By putting a strong emphasis on safety and health was at the core of our interest. In years from the privatization we may proudly corresponds to the population of Iceland security issues, we want them to be of October, we launched an employee assistance We are certainly going to continue our efforts say that it was a success. Thanks to and is our strength coming from paramount importance to all the ArcelorMittal programme with ”Droga” Foundation. in 2012. Our focus in terms of Corporate investments worth over PLN 4.5 billion we multiculturalism, extensive experience and Group employees. Despite the steel industry Responsibility will be to further improve our transformed steel plants on the verge of know-how. In 2011, ArcelorMittal had being often perceived as risk-involving and ArcelorMittal Poland trains its people safety results, as well as to continue to comply bankruptcy into successful plants which use revenues of USD 94 billion and crude dangerous, we genuinely believe that with constantly, regardless of their educational with all environmental regulations. We are also world-class technologies and set standards. steel production of 91.9 million tonnes, proper procedures and attitudes, it is possible backgrounds or positions in the organization, committed to promoting diversity and With six steel plants in the Province of Silesia representing approximately 6 percent to completely eliminate accidents. Our because we believe that our people are our non-discrimination at workplace, as well as to (Dąbrowa Górnicza, Sosnowiec, Święto- of world steel output. The Group's mining “Journey to Zero” programme implemented biggest asset. We succeeded in completing ensuring the development of our employees. chłowice and Chorzów) and Małopolska operations produced 54 million tonnes throughout the ArcelorMittal Group, is already three important training projects: ”Analytical As far as community projects are concerned, (Kraków) we account for over 70% of the of iron ore and 8 million tonnes of bringing positive effects. Last year we Thinking”, ”You’ve got talent”, and yet another we would like to get involved in long-term production capacity of the Polish steel metallurgical coal. managed to decrease the accident frequency edition of ”Manager’s Academy”. initiatives, in line with ArcelorMittal's value industry. We produce both flat and long rate, which went down from 1.5 in 2010 to We also successfully opened the first of Sustainability. products and employ 12,000 people. We are Products manufactured in our plants from 0.8 in 2011. ArcelorMittal kindergarten in Dąbrowa also proud to be the owner of the biggest and Luxembourg to Brazil are used by most Górnicza for our employees’ children and are We hope you will find this report insightful. In most modern coke plant in Europe located industry sectors, from automotive and white In 2011 we also made an unprecedented planning to launch a similar facility in Kraków the meantime, we will be pleased to hear your in Zdzieszowice. goods industry, construction, packaging, and decision to introduce a 3-month ‘Break for this year. opinions on our ongoing actions in the field of infrastructure to the futuristic ArcelorMittal Health and Safety’ programme for our plant Corporate Responsibility. We are aware that a leading position Orbit becoming the icon of modern London directors, who delegated all their daily tasks to on the Polish steel market inevitably requires and a symbol of 2012 Olympics. their colleagues and spent the entire period responsibility and commitment. We have concentrating on safety issues, to lead the With best wishes, excellent results when it comes to the safety effort through personal example. We reduction of CO2 and dust emission levels, are also committed to continuing our ‘TOP 10 environmental impact or noise levels. Risks’ programme, designed to make the Our efforts have been recognized by industry working environment of our employees risk- experts which makes us especially proud. free. Sanjay Samaddar In 2011 we were awarded the title of the Chairman of the Board of Directors Ambassador of Polish Economy, a Reliable ArcelorMittal Poland Company and a Top Employer. Those awards prove that we really changed the image of the Polish steel industry. About ArcelorMittal Poland • 04/05 Corporate Responsibility Governance Corporate Responsibility Council of Our stakeholders Customers and suppliers Government institution Local communities Structure ArcelorMittal Poland Employees Success of the company depends not As the biggest employer in Silesia, Our Group's policy assumes that the ArcelorMittal Poland’s Corporate The Corporate Responsibility Council is only on employees' attitude but also on Małopolska and Opolskie regions and activity of the Corporate Responsibility Responsibility governance structure is the advisory body that supports the Our company culture = our identity = customers' and suppliers' satisfaction. one of the biggest in Poland, we remain focuses mainly on communities located based on Company's organizational chart. appropriateness and transparency in the our DNA That is why one of the most important in regular contact with government in the neighbourhood of our plants. Thus, Every employee, starting with Members scope of Corporate Responsibility priorities of the company is building institutions. ArcelorMittal Poland our actions concentrate on social of Board of Directors, through Unit activities. The recent meeting of the Employees of ArcelorMittal Poland are good long-term relations with its regularly meets representatives of e.g. development of the 6 cities in which our Directors and ending on shop floor Council which took place in September considered to be the biggest asset of the business partners – relations which are Ministry of Economy and Ministry of plants are located. We are aware of the workers is obliged to act in accordance to 2011 in Dąbrowa Górnicza was a very company, as they contribute not only to based on honesty, and mutual