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 2009, Allergan’s injury and illness frequency rate was 0.76 normalized to 200,000 hours worked. 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 has a very low Days Away from work-Restricted duty-Transferred duty (DART) case rate of 0.47 normalized to 200,000 hours worked. Allergan continues to work with injured employees to return them to work as soon as possible.
Climate Change Performance Trend
The 2009 overall GHG profile for Allergan is presented in the following figure. GHG emissions decreased by 11% vs. 2008 even with the addition of the new facility acquisitions. The recent acquisitions along with existing facility energy conservation have significantly reduced Allergan’s carbon footprint on an absolute basis. Projects to reduce energy consumption and consequently Allergan’s GHG emissions at the facilities are demonstrating Allergan’s commitment to climate change.
This trend is expected to continue into the future. Allergan continues to plan to meet the planning period goal of reducing absolute GHG emissions by 5% using 2005 as the baseline year.
On a normalized to sales basis, the GHG emissions decreased by 15% in 2009 vs. 2008 and 56% in 2009 vs. 2005. The effect of the new facilities when normalized to sales demonstrates Allergan’s success at GHG emissions reduction.
Energy Consumption Trend
Allergan’s total energy consumption decreased by 8% in 2009 versus 2008. Allergan is implementing projects in order to reduce the total energy consumption by 5% by 2010 per our strategic goals. Allergan is currently consuming 10% less energy than in 2005. The impacts of the acquisitions are demonstrating why this effort is so critical.
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 program. The reduction in 2009 versus 2008 was approximately 8% on a per square meter basis. When energy consumption is normalized per sales, in 2009 a decrease of 12% in energy consumption occurred versus 2008. The normalized trend demonstrates Allergan’s commitment and results regarding energy conservation and management.
Hazardous Waste Generation Trend
On an absolute basis, the hazardous waste decreased by 31% in 2009. The primary reason for the decrease in hazardous waste was due to Allergan Medical in France eliminating a process step that required the use of large quantities of isopropyl alcohol. Allergan has developed plans for reducing these wastes to the greatest extent feasible and expect to meet the five year strategic goal of 10% reduction by 2010 vs. 2005.
The hazardous waste generation is also normalized to Allergan sales for purposes of showing efficiencies. These normalized measures demonstrate that Allergan continues to become more efficient in its R&D and manufacturing operations.
Recycling Trend
Allergan increased its recycling rate from 29% in 1995 to 71% in 2009. The goal in 2009 was to increase the recycling rate to greater than 60%. The absolute quantity of recycled materials increased by 7% in 2009 versus 2008. 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.
