The Boehringer Ingelheim group of companies has achieved positive results in environmental protection, health and safety to date, but we aim for continuous improvement.
 
Since 1995 we regularly published our targets for the upcoming years and accounted for the degree of implementation. In the beginning, we established mainly quantitative targets regarding use of natural resources and emissions. As you can see in our report "Our planet - our responsibility",  most of the targets were successfully achieved.
 
Nowadays, targets are more difficult to quantify than previous goals. Many of the targets in the period 2001 - 2006 (PDF 341 KB) already dealt with areas such as product stewardship, business partners and management systems.

The following table shows our current targets for the period 2005 - 2010. It also displays the updated status of the targets that were taken over from the previous period.

General Targets 2005 - 2010 (status: April 2008)
[ achieved   ongoing  not achieved ]

Target

Status

Comments

Targets for Environmental protection
	Improve CO2-balance by conversion to wood-fired power plant at our largest site in Ingelheim.				Our site in Ingelheim, Germany, started up a new wood-fired power plant in 2004. Carbon dioxide emissions
	Reduce water consumption at selected chemical production site				Stepwise conversion to recirculating cooling system ongoing at Fornovo, Italy. Water consumption
	Adapt wastewater treatment at major sites to increasing loads by implementing state-of-the-art technologies.				Target extended in 2006  Modern treatment technologies were already implemented at our sites in Biberach, Germany, and Petersburg, USA. In Ingelheim, Germany, an up-grade was initiated in 2005.
	Halve total Volatile Organic Compounds emissions through implementation of thermal oxidation at our chemical site in Malgrat, Spain.				Target added in 2006  Central waste air incineration plant in Malgrat was officially opened in August 2007. VOC emissions
Targets for Product stewardship
	Support systems to improve counterfeit-proof packaging.				Corporate procedure gives clear guidance. Pilot project started.
	Conduct environmental risk assessment for existing products.				Environmental risk assessments completed for major products. Further assessments started.
	Implement requirements of REACH in European production sites.				Target added in 2007
Targets for Health and safety
	Strive for zero accidents and incidents.				Continuous improvement of accident/incident rate over the past years. Work accidents
	Promote a safety culture through programmes such as behavioural-based safety and "near miss" reporting.				Innovative programmes implemented at major sites
	Implement programmes on Field force safety at all operative production units.				OPU's set up policy and programmes and started implementation (training etc.)
	Implement Boehringer Ingelheim Exposure Limit Programme worldwide.				Worldwide framework established. Sites are in implementation phase.
	Develop and begin implementation of Boehringer Ingelheim fire protection standards worldwide.				Fire protection procedure effective since March 2005. Implementation started.
	Up-date current process safety procedures.				Corporate procedure on process safety in chemical production up-dated. Procedures for process safety in pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical production are in development.
	Thoroughly evaluate contractors' safety performance.				Benchmark performed. Corporate procedure on Contractors' Safety up-dated.
Targets for Management system
	Prepare priority sites for certification of ISO 14001.				Management systems are established. Four sites certified, thereof two (Fornovo, Italy, Yamagata, Japan) in 2006.
	Implement Boehringer Ingelheim supplier qualification procedure including EHS qualification				Supplier qualification procedure approved. Application started.
	Include auditing of social aspects in supplier qualification procedure.				Revised supplier qualification procedure effective since 2006. Implementation started.
	Implement combined audits with Quality Assurance to take advantage of integrated management systems.				Six combined audits took place. The audit systems were successfully adapted.

Last update: 08.04.2008