2020 Sustainability Goals
| Topic: | 2020 Goals | 2018 Progress | 2019 Progress |
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Sustainability |
Educate all of our employees on sustainability to foster in them the desire to support our goals and strategy and to inspire them to actively participate in our initiatives and to identify future initiatives material to our organization. |
100% of our employees have been educated in sustainability through newly developed corporate communications and company-wide training. All employees are encouraged to participate via our newly formed sustainability committee and initiatives. Results of a biannual employee engagement survey conducted in 2018 revealed that 99% of respondents recognize Anderson Development as a socially and environmentally responsible company. |
100% of our employees have been educated in sustainability through newly developed corporate communications and company-wide training. All employees are encouraged to participate via our newly formed sustainability committee and initiatives. |
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Human and Workplace Rights |
Committed to enhancing our employee’s quality of life through continual improvement of and investment in employee engagement, training & development, and health and wellness initiatives |
Developing methods to evaluate training effectiveness and formally introduced training and development plans. Introduced quarterly company sponsored health and wellness events Successful completion of a Together for Sustainability Audit scoring 190 of 200 points Results of a biannual employee engagement survey conducted in 2018 revealed that 85% of respondents feel that diversity and inclusion is valued at Anderson Development (12% higher than the U.S. on average). |
Continue developing methods to evaluate training effectiveness. In 2019 revamped performance appraisal program to emphasize employee training and development. Continue to provide quarterly company sponsored health and wellness events based on employee feedback and encourage employee participation. |
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Employee Safety |
Protect the health and welfare of our employees and community through the development of world-class, safe operating performance. Engage all ADC employees to work towards an injury and accident free workplace through safe operating systems, behaviors and conditions. |
Increased education, communication and participation in our safety initiatives to improve our occupational and process safety performance.
Refocused efforts towards incident investigation including root cause analysis including human factors. Results of a biannual employee engagement survey conducted in 2018 revealed that 93% of respondents believe that employee safety is very important to Anderson Development (6% higher than the U.S. on average). Continued to identify opportunities to interact with, and to provide monetary support to local emergency responders. |
Continued to promote initiatives to improve our occupational and process safety performance.
Developed a behavioral safety standard framework to define critical behaviors and specify tools needed to understand and reinforce those behaviors to foster a strong safety culture. Continued to promote interaction with and support of our local emergency responders. |
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Giving Back |
Invest in educational outreach and assistance to foster interest in chemistry to support our future workforce and contribute specifically to the UN SDGs (Quality Education and Reduced Inequalities) in ways which are most material to Anderson Development, have the most impact in or local community, and align with our mission |
Continued to monitor participation in the educational outreach programs we provide to our community, and developed a survey to measure the success of these activities and to identify ways to improve and to increase participation.
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Utilized survey to evaluate and improve our educational outreach
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Climate Protection |
We will continue to reduce our impact on the environment, and will develop a set of initiatives to ensure our success |
Increased our knowledge of life cycle assessment and established the carbon footprint of our largest product line. Continued optimization and monitoring of our aromatic solvent recovery/recycling initiative.
Began rationalization of utility usage and waste generation to identify opportunities to reduce our operational footprint. |
Continued optimization and monitoring of our aromatic solvent recovery/recycling initiative.
Continue rationalization of utility usage and waste generation to identify opportunities to reduce our operational footprint. |
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Sustainable Solutions |
Actively develop and promote products that support the UN SDGs (Good Health and Wellbeing and Responsible Consumption and Production. |
84% of research and development allocated toward products which contribute to reduced environmental impacts or focused on enhancing product safety. |
In 2019 <88% research and development allocated |
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Environment, Health, and Safety |
Continue the development of world-class Safety and Environmental management systems by upgrading Anderson Development to the RC14001®:2015 |
Transitioned our management system to RC14001®:2015 |
Awarded a Gold rating for 2019 assessment by EcoVadis. The Gold rating is the highest recognition given by the leading independent environmental, social and ethical performance scorecard for global supply chains. |
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Sustainable Marketplace |
In support of ADC’s 2020 Sustainability Targets, we will continue to improve customer satisfaction and to improve the sustainability of our supply chain, ensuring all critical suppliers are aligned with our vision of sustainability. |
64% of our customers responded to our customer satisfaction survey and the feedback was overall positive Validated that 90% of our material supply base are in alignment with our sustainability expectations and focused efforts to validate our remaining supply base |
63% of our customers responded to our customer satisfaction survey and the feedback was overall positive Working to validate that our remaining suppliers align with our sustainability expectations. |
