Klaus Wessing Director Transport Division, RC Coordinator - Cefic

ECTA EUROPEAN RESPONSIBLE CARE SCHEME IN TRANSPORT
Klaus Wessing
Director Transport Division, RC
Coordinator
ALFRED TALKE GmbH & Co. KG
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• Logistic Service Provider for the
chemical & petrochemical industry
• 24 associated branches across Europe,
the Middle East and Asia
• Over 1,600 employees & dedicated
subcontractors
• 2,200 transportation units (trucks & containers)
• More than 750,000 m² operated logistics centres
Business Units
• Transport
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– liquids, dry bulk and packaged products
• Logistics
– storage solutions/ Value Added Services/
Container Terminals/ On-Site services
• Logistic Solutions
– logistic analysis & consultancy, turnkey
constructions

European Chemical Transport Association :
MISSION and STRATEGIES
MISSION :
• To improve standards of efficiency, safety, quality of the chemical
transports
• To reduce the environmental and social impacts involved
• To represent the common interests of its members towards stakeholders,
including the chemical industry and authorities.
STRATEGIES : The objectives of the Association are realized by:
• Developing Best Practices in transport and logistics of chemical goods in
close cooperation with Cefic SIG Logistics.
• Sharing the learning by organizing conferences, publication and
dissemination of reports and studies.
NEW : As Responsible Care Association, ECTA applies the ECTA RC scheme of
continuous improvement in HSE in the European Chemical transport.
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ECTA Membership
Full Members: 73
Transport companies
• Active in European Transport by all transport modes : road, rail,
barge, SSS
• (excl. Deep sea)
ECTA Membership
• Main hauliers= directly responsible for HSEQ to shippers
Associate Members: 11
• Suppliers contributing to ECTA objectives
• Associate membership exchanges with transport associations (active
in chemical transport and min 3 ECTA members) Excluded from RC
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ECTA FULL MEMBERS= 445 SITES !
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ACTIVITY OF ECTA MEMBERS
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ECTA: 10 years of HSEQ « action »
• ECTA-Cefic working groups: Best Practice Guidelines on chemical logistics:
Not only Dangerous Goods
• SQAS: Investment of LSPs in external assessment
Continuous HSEQ improvement
SQAS reports available in a Cefic database
• Seminars and publications :
Behaviour Based Safety training of drivers
Horizontal collaboration and recommendations.
Tipping equipment
Personal Protective equipment and handling
Exceeding industry standards in transport
Subcontracting
Security
Risk management
Walking the RC Talk !
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ECTA RC MILESTONES
• 2003: EPCA Budapest Meeting “Sustainable Chemical Transport Logistics and
Responsible Care through Partnerships”
• 2003-2008: negotiating the CEFIC-ECTA RC agreement in line with European land
transport realities
• 23 October 2008: Signing in Manchester of RC agreement between Cefic and ECTA
• 18 December 2008: first meeting of ECTA RC Steering Team
• 26 January 2009: ECTA Board meeting on ECTA RC implementation (RC documents)
• 12 February 2009: ECTA Board signed Declaration of support for the RC Global
Charter
• 13 February 2009:Launch of the ECTA RC scheme
Signing ceremony of first 19 ECTA member companies to join ECTA RC scheme. To
date 27 ECTA member companies have joined.
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ECTA RC MEMBER COMPANIES
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New RC members signed in Berlin on
6 October 2009:
LANFER
STAR CHEMICALS
Gé SIMONS
BRUHN SPEDITION
NORBERT DENTRESSANGLE GROUP
DB SCHENKER BTT GmbH

ECTA RC SCHEME ESSENTIALS
• Responsible Care: same ethics and fundamental features = in accordance with ICCA
guidance: ECTA has signed Declaration of support for the RC Global Charter on 12
February 2009
• ECTA members operate cross-border in EU. European approach instead of national
approach is required.
• ECTA Board is the RC decision organ. The ECTA RC Steering Team comprising ECTA
experts in HSE management, advises the ECTA Board
• RC Platform : formal coordination body between Cefic and ECTA on RC implementation,
resolution of issues, exchange of information and events
• Key performance Indicators: objectives are to ensure maximum participation by all RC
member companies and to collect meaningful and comparable data.
ECTA will compile individual input into European performance data for Cefic
• ECTA Staff + all ECTA RC Steering team signed strict confidentiality agreements
• ECTA yearly RC Plan is based on SQAS and on improvement plans of RC members
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TARGETS of the ECTA RC SCHEME
• Main objective: ZERO ACCIDENTS !
• Key driver: Continuous improvement of HSEQ
• Promote environmental awareness
• Promotion of RC principles to our suppliers of services
(eg tank cleaning / subcontractors)
• RC will improve communication efforts =
MORE VISIBLE / TRANSPARENT
• RC is based on respect of SUSTAINABILITY principles (society, environment,
economics)
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Achievements
• Promotion of RC to ECTA members: 37 % of members already committed to RC in first 9
months of the ECTA RC Scheme
• Association signed declaration of support to nine key elements of RC Global Charter of ICCA
• ECTA issued first draft of implementation guide of RC in June
• Governance: RC member companies are screened before signature of their commitment. RC
member companies provide their external assessments (SQAS is external assessment of
HSEQ) to ECTA
• Cefic contributed to this aspect of governance by allowing ECTA to verify SQAS reports in the
Cefic database
• All ECTA RC members have sent in their improvement plans for 2009
• ECTA RC Plan: ECTA organised two Expert Days: one on Risk Management and one on
keeping expertise in the sector (BBS training of drivers)
FAST DEPLOYMENT OF ECTA RC SCHEME IN EUROPE
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Sites of RC Companies with SQAS
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Challenges
• Learn all about the RC scheme and the RC philosophy in general
• Learn to understand communication requirements of its stakeholders
• Further implement the most appropriate and valid scheme for the chemical logistics
industry in Europe
• Use of SQAS as a tool for RC governance and verification processes under RC, in close
cooperation with Cefic
• Specifics of transport market in Europe:
- Road AND intermodal are used
- Emission measurements in logistics not yet harmonised
- ECTA RC scheme is European scheme
- Transport sector has limited financial and HR resources (compared to Chem ind.)
• RC performance of transport should measure HSEQ improvements in meaningful and
comparable manner (relevant KPI’s)
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ECTA RC STEERING TEAM
• EVERT DE JONG DE RIJKE GROUP
• BERNHARD HAIDACHER LKW WALTER INT
• SABRINA ROBBA HOYER GROUP
• NATALIE DAUTRICHE GROUPE CHARLES ANDRÉ
• ANDREW BAIRD SUTTONS GROUP
• COLIN HUMPHREY INTERBULK GROUP
• ROSE-MARIE PYPE ECTA RC Co-ordinator
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TIMELINES BY ECTA RC STEERING TEAM (1/2)
• DONE contract ECTA-LSP
• DONE checklist for entry as RC company
• DONE ECTA Responsible Care Plan 2009 :
risk management in chemical transport +
keeping expertise in the sector
• DONE recommendations on writing an
improvement plan
• DONE receive direct access to SQAS reports
• DONE determine time lines of implementation
(see next slide)
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TIMELINES BY ECTA RC STEERING TEAM (2/2)
• Q3-Q4/2009
� Cooperate with Cefic on implementation process
(RC platform meeting RC Conference of Cefic)
� Adapt current ECTA website (in progress)
� Prepare the ECTA RC plan of 2010
• 2010
� Issue standard format for KPI reporting
� Ensure correct communication on first year of RC
� Prepare verification process under RC
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ECTA RC Scheme
• ECTA program in line with 8 fundamental features of RC programmes laid down by
ICCA
• EUROWIDE applicable in a harmonized manner: LSPs on equal foot in all countries
• Chemical customers remain free to select their LSPs on their requirements
• Confidentiality in individual data with full openness on collective information
• Evidence of performance by external assessment (SQAS)
• Respect for specifics of the transport sector: translation of RC Principles of
chemical production industry to service industry of transports
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Fundamental Feature 1:
Signing Guiding Principles beforehand
• To be signed by CEO of the ECTA member company
• Visible support by top management in leading by example
• Dissemination throughout the whole company
• Top level commitment extends to all employees, customers, community: this
means currently for ECTA
(est. 24 000 people on pay-roll involved in RC and many more are impacted at
subcontractors and tank cleaning stations)
• ECTA RC program is at company GROUP level (incl joint ventures at 51 % control)
• Appointment of one RC Co-ordinator for the Group
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Fundamental Feature 2:
Appropriate use of the logo
• Logo of RC is owned by Cefic
• ECTA concluded an agreement with its RC companies including use of logo
instructions
• Recommended use of the new RC logo incl. « sustainability »
• Non permissable uses can and will be stopped by ECTA
• Procedure for withdrawal of logo use in place
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Fundamental Feature 3:
Implement Best Practices
• Under RC: LSPs aim to ensure the HSE risks of transport are properly
identified, controlled and managed
• ECTA-Cefic Guidelines: « Recommendations on Safety, Health and
Envrionmental Management Practices for LSPs »
• Additional: BBS, subcontracting guidelines
• Individual RC improvement plan is based on the above guidelines and the
analysis of measured performance
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Fundamental Feature 4:
Encourage participation
• ECTA member companies were already proactive in HSE management,
SQAS is available in major operating units
The importance of HSEQ management « license to operate » is well known
• More than 1 in 3 ECTA members signed RC commitment in first 9 months
• Pre signature commitment by CEO and evidence check completed:
STRONG GOVERNANCE aspect of entering into ECTA RC program
• 27 companies = 200 operating units in Europe with SQAS
129 transport operators SQAS reports
53 tank cleaning operations SQAS reports
18 Warehouse operations SQAS reports
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Fundamental Feature 5:
Communication
• ECTA RC Companies: will encourage responsible management with their
suppliers: tank cleaning, subcontracting
• ECTA RC Companies: - Take Board decisions to join RC,
- Issue internal communications to all their
employees, suppliers and customers
• ECTA divulges its Annual RC plan and reports on results and evaluations to
Cefic and its RC members
• ECTA will update its website: http://www.ecta.be
- with a map with location of major operating units of the RC
companies
- with a RC Member’s area restricted to RC transport companies:
emergency response number for mutual assistance in case of
transport accident
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Fundamental Feature 6:
Share best practices
• ECTA has many years of experience in sharing best practice guidelines
written in joint working groups between ECTA and Cefic
• ECTA promotes these best practices in BestLog.org, an EU project on best
practices in logistics
• ECTA committed to EU Road Safety Charter and to EU OSHA campaign on
safe workplaces
• Annual ECTA RC plan includes development of best practices: for 2009:
Two Expert Days were organised on risk management and on keeping
expertise in the sector (BBS training)
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Fundamental Feature 7:
Verification process
• Pre signing evidence must be externally assessed: SQAS
• ECTA was granted acces in June 2009 to all SQAS reports of its RC member
companies: only for RC purposes and in confidentiality context
• RC companies individual improvement plan is based on self assessment,
SQAS inputs and elements from the annual ECTA RC plan.
• ECTA RC scheme: combines self assessment with external HSEQ
assessement scheme (SQAS)
• Neutralised anonymous review of improvement plans can be submitted to
RC Steering Team specialists
• Robust individual improvement plans are required
• Use of SQAS as tool in RC governance and verification processes under
RC, in close cooperation with Cefic
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Fundamental Feature 8:
Develop a set of performance indicators
• Specifics of transport market in Europe:
- Road AND intermodal are used.
- Emission measurements in logistics not yet harmonised.
- ECTA RC scheme is European scheme (not country bound)
- Transport sector has limited financial and HR resources
• Performance measurement of transport should measure continuous
improvements in a meaningful and comparable manner
• KPI’s adapted to transport & logistics industry
• Target is to provide standard format to be completed in 2010
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Sustainability in European transport
challenged by:
• Drastic fall of demand for transport due to shrinking production and sales of
chemical industry
• Limited access to credit
• Severe price reductions
• Labour intensive sector: economically fragile
• High social toll from the crisis :
- Large number of self employed drivers at risk of bankruptcy (50% of drivers are self
employed in Europe): bankruptcy in transport up by 110 % since end 2007
- Road sector: more than 140,000 jobs lost since 2007
- Rail sector: est. freight reduction by 20 %
• Risk of loss of expertise when we come out of the downturn
• Cheap oil prices: decisions to renew fleets with more fuel efficient vehicles are
delayed
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Vision
THE EUROPEAN TRANSPORT AND LOGISTICS INDUSTRY
A PARTNER TO CEFIC IN RESPONSIBLE CARE
Under the ICCA Global Charter
Working together towards
ZERO ACCIDENTS
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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Passing Responsible Care on
along the chemical supply chain
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