Performance Measures

In 2002, the Board of the American Chemistry Council (ACC) approved a set of performance measures to be made available to the public through its Responsible Care^® Web site. These measures enable Arkema as an individual company and ACC members as a group to target areas of Responsible Care performance for continuous improvement. They also provide the public with a means to track individual company and industry performance in an accessible, transparent manner.

Arkema Inc. began reporting these new Responsible Care performance measures to the ACC in early 2004. As of 2009, we report the following data annually:

Responsible Care Performance Metrics
Metric	Who Collects Information to be Reported	Reported Company or Industry Basis
Environmental Metrics
1)  Pounds of Hazardous Air Pollutants - released to the air	ACC	Company
2)  Pounds of SOx and NOx Emissions - released to the air	Company	Company
3)  Net Water Consumption - in millions of gallons	Company	Company
Energy Metrics
4)  Greenhouse Gas Intensity - pounds of CO2 equivalent net emissions per pound of production indexed to a base year	Company	Industry
5)  Energy Efficiency - pounds of CO2 equivalent net emissions per pound of production indexed to a base year	Company	Industry
Safety Metrics
6)  Process Safety Incidents - total number of incidents	Company	Company
7)  OSHA Recordable and Lost Work Day Incidence Rates - employees and contractors	Company	Company
8)  Fatalities - employees and contractors	Company	Company
Distribution Metrics
9)  DOT Recordable Incidents - total number of incidents	ACC	Company
10)  Is the Responsible Care Partner status a consideration in your company's supply chain business decision?	Company	Company
Security Metrics
11)  Reaffirmation of Security Code Implementation Status	Company	Industry
Product Metrics
12)  Status of Chemical Prioritization	Company	Company
13)  Process Used to Prioritize Chemicals	Company	Company
14)  Percentage of High Priority Chemicals with Product Stewardship Summaries	Company	Industry
Outreach and Accountability Metrics
15)  Community Outreach and Emergency Response	Company	Company
16)  Certification of Responsible Care Management System	Company	Company

We feel that numbers alone, whether they indicate success or point to areas for improvement do not tell Arkema's whole story.