88-96**news ital-ingl 2¡ bozza - Italcementi Group

iduzione degli incidenti nei
luoghi di lavoro – nella
direzione dello sviluppo
sostenibile del Gruppo, al fine
di raggiungere un equilibrio
ottimale tra crescita
economica, tutela
dell’ambiente e responsabilità
sociale, attraverso
l’applicazione, anche
migliorativa, delle normative
vigenti e degli standard
ecologici.
La Politica Ambientale è un
elemento centrale della
mission della società, al pari di
produttività, efficienza,
sicurezza e salute, qualità e
ricerca tecnologica; pertanto,
in base a questa linea,
saranno varati mirati
programmi gestionali, tesi a
prevenire e ridurre gli effetti
negativi sull’ambiente e a
ottimizzare e razionalizzare
l’utilizzo di risorse non
rinnovabili. Sono in via di
definizione anche specifici
programmi di sensibilizzazione
e di formazione, oltre che
un’adeguata politica di
comunicazione, rivolti a tutti i
dipendenti, tra i principali
protagonisti della Politica
Ambientale del Gruppo.
In questo ambito, Italcementi
Group, è da sempre attivo nel
costante ed attento
monitoraggio dell’impatto
esercitato dai propri processi
produttivi sull’ambiente: viene
esercitato un regolare
controllo delle emissioni di
polveri, di inquinanti gassosi
nonché di microinquinanti
organici ed inorganici emessi
nell’atmosfera e viene
associata tale attività al
recupero di residui da
impiegare in parziale
sostituzione delle materie
prime e dei combustibili
convenzionali.
Le crescenti esigenze
ambientali hanno influito
positivamente sulle attività di
recupero dei residui da
utilizzare, sia come materie
prime, sia come combustibili,
presso le cementerie del
Gruppo. Anche i metodi di
coltivazione adottati nelle
cave sono orientati al rapido
ed efficace recupero
paesaggistico. In particolare è
ormai affermata una tendenza
che non si limita al
“ripristino” ambientale, ossia
al puro reinserimento dell’area
nel contesto di cui fa parte,
ma si propone di valorizzare le
aree di cava adattandole a
funzioni ed usi nuovi e anche
migliorativi rispetto a quelli
preesistenti.
Il documento “Linee Guida della
Politica Ambientale di Italcementi
Group” su Internet:
http//www.italcementigroup.com
The business world is
increasingly aware of the
need to safeguard the
environment and set certain
universally held social values, a
challenge committing firms to
get actively involved in the
creation of a “sustainable
future.”
To this end the World Business
Council for Sustainable
Development (WBCSD), a
worldwide organization
incorporating over 150
companies, has devised an
important project called the
Cement Sustainability Initiative
involving leading companies in
the sector.
The ten leading cement
manufacturers have signed the
so-called “Agenda for Action”
publishing the results of a twoyear
program of independent
research and stakeholder
consultation.
The project focuses on the
contribution the cement
industry can make to
developing more sustainable
growth and is aimed at
devising ideas and concrete
action to bring about positive
changes in its own long-term
activities.
The basic idea behind this
project is to try and reduce
negative impact on the
environment and community
as a whole.
The goal of identifying and
facilitating actions that
companies can jointly take to
speed up this process moves
hand-in-hand with their
“license to operate” facing
both problems and
opportunities.
The protocol sets out a fiveyear
program of actions that
take the companies further
toward sustainable
development.
This is the only way of
guaranteeing a process of
business growth in which
environmental, social and
economic factors all play an
equally important role.
The key priority areas for the
cement industry are protecting
the climate, the exploiting of
fuels and raw materials, health
and safety at the work place,
and reducing emissions and
environmental impact on local
communities.
Anticipating this project, last
April the Group’s CEO,
Giampiero Pesenti, has
approved and signed the “Key
Principles of the Italcementi
Group’s Environment Policy,” as
evidence of the Group’s
ongoing commitment to
environmental issues. Principles
applicable to the
environmental policies of all
the Group’s companies and to
coordinating action undertaken
in this sphere have also been
drawn up.
This would be another step in
the direction of the Group’s
sustainable development - in
the wake of the “Zero
accidents” project aimed at
reducing accidents at work
places - in an attempt to create
a perfect balance between
business growth,
environmental protection and
social responsibility by
enforcing (and even improving)
the regulations and ecostandards
currently in force.
Environment Policy is a key
element of the Group’s
corporate mission as well as
productivity, efficiency, safety
and health, quality and
technological research; based
on this general policy,
management programs will be
set under way to prevent and
reduce negative effects on the
environment and
optimize/rationalize the use of
non-renewable resources.
Special training and awarenessdevelopment
programs are also
being drawn up, together with
a suitable communications
policy aimed at all the
employees, major players in the
Group’s Environment Policy.
In this respect the Italcementi
Group has always been careful
to constantly monitor the
environmental impact of its
own manufacturing processes:
emissions of dust, polluting
gases and organic/inorganic
micro-pollutants given off into
the atmosphere are all regularly
monitored and backed-up by
salvaging processes designed
to partly replace conventional
fuels and raw materials.
Growing environmental
demands have had positive
influence on the recovery of
waste both as raw materials
and as fuels at the Group’s
cement plants. Even excavation
methods used in the quarries
are geared to rapid and
effective landscape recovery.
The tendency is now to move
beyond mere environmental
“restoration,” or in other words
just re-incorporating the
exploited area in its proper
setting, to actually
redeveloping quarry areas by
adapting them to new and
even better uses and functions
than they were previously used
for.
The document outlining the
“Italcementi Group’s Key
Principles of Environment Policy”
can be found at the Internet site:
http//www.italcementigroup.com
89