Environmental Health and Safety Sustainability Performance Reports
Allergan has been tracking sustainability performance for several years and made significant progress toward improving our performance. Below is a summary of five key sustainability performance indicators. Details on additional indicators are included in our Sustainability Performance Summary Table.
Safety Performance Trend
Allergan’s injury and illness frequency rate has dropped steadily since 1991. In 2010, Allergan’s injury and illness frequency rate was 0.89 normalized to 200,000 hours worked. Allergan and its contractors have had no fatalities in 2010. Allergan’s goal during the period is to reduce and maintain the incident rate to less than 1.00. In order to maintain this extremely low frequency rate, Allergan expanded programs in 2005 and 2006 to include behavior-based safety (Safe Start Program), Kaizen safety events, detailed risk assessments, improved training, and metrics. These programs have helped Allergan maintain the high level of performance in the safety area.
Allergan had a very low Days Away from work-Restricted duty-Transferred duty (DART) case rate of 0.38 normalized to 200,000 hours worked in 2010. Allergan continues to work with injured employees to return them to work as soon as possible.
Climate Change and GHG Trends
Allergan met the planning period goal of reducing GHG emissions by 5% for its R&D and manufacturing operations using 2005 as the baseline year with more than a 10% reduction over the five-year period. With that achieved, Allergan has set an aggressive goal of 15% reduction during the next five-year period to end in 2015.
Energy Consumption Trend
Overall, Allergan has implemented projects and reduced the total energy consumption by 10% by 2010 vs. 2005 far exceeding our strategic goal of 5%. Allergan has set a goal of reducing its overall energy consumption by 15% in 2015 vs. 2010. This is an aggressive target given all the work already completed by Allergan to date.
Allergan has seen generally a decline in total energy consumption on a per square meter basis since 2000. This trend demonstrates Allergan’s effective energy management program. The reduction in 2010 vs 2005 was approximately 40% on a per square meter basis. The normalized trend demonstrates Allergan’s commitment and results regarding energy conservation and management.
Hazardous Waste Performance Trend
On an absolute basis, the hazardous waste increased by 30% in 2010 vs 2009. The primary reason for the increase in hazardous waste was due to tripling the production at the Allergan Medical facility located in Heredia, Costa Rica. This was after a massive decrease in hazardous waste generation at the Allergan Medical facility located in Pringy, France. Several opportunities have been identified and are being implemented at the Costa Rica facility to reduce the hazardous waste generated in 2011 and beyond. Allergan has set an aggressive target of 15% waste reduction based on 2010 levels to be achieved by 2015.
Recycling Trend
Allergan increased its recycling rate from 29% in 1995 to 71% in 2010. The goal in 2010 was to increase the recycling rate to greater than 70%. The absolute quantity of recycled materials was greater in 2010 versus 2009 remained flat. Recycling rate is derived from the total recycled materials quantity divided by the total nonhazardous waste generated including waste going to offsite disposal and waste being recycled. Allergan is pushing this already high rate of recycling to 75% during this next five-year period ending in 2015.
