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2006
Alcoa Helps Deliver EHS Improvement in Romania
To help further effective teamwork on essential environment, health, and safety (EHS) activities within its facilities and the communities in Romania where it operates, Alcoa conducted more than 50 EHS-related projects in 2004 and 2005.
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Engaging with the Community for the Long-Term
By engaging the local community in the development of long-term residue management strategies, Alcoa’s operations in Western Australia made better environmental and social decisions, reduced regulatory review, and gained lower long-term costs in residue planning and management.
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Protecting Employees through Better Chemical Management Practices
A global team of health professionals, known as the Alcoa Occupational Exposure Limits Technical Review Committee, is searching for better management practices for the various chemicals that are used in Alcoa's manufacturing processes worldwide.
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Unique Partnership Cuts Waste, Costs
Through a unique contract with a waste management partner, Alcoa’s Massena Operations in upstate New York reduced landfilled tonnage by roughly 40% and cut costs by almost US$1.1 million between July 2003 and the end of 2005.
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2005
Alcoa Solution Solves Long-Standing Ergonomic Issue
With the assistance of a caving expert, Alcoa’s Kwinana refinery in Australia developed a cost-effective and award-winning solution to an ergonomic issue faced for decades by powerhouses around the world.
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Asbestos Removal Technique Increases Protection, Reduces Costs
Through the use of a new technique to remove asbestos, Alcoa’s Anglesea power station in Australia is increasing employee protection and comfort, decreasing costs, and accelerating the rate of removal by almost 90%.
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Brazil Expansion Project Achieved with Zero Lost Workdays, Low Recordable Rate
The creation of an environment, health, and safety management system for an expansion project at Alcoa’s industrial complex in SĂŁo LuĂs, Brazil, resulted in zero lost workdays and a total recordable rate below 0.24—the best for any recent construction work carried out by Alcoa.
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Bringing EHS, Sustainability Awareness to the Community
As part of its commitment to be the best company in the community, Alcoa’s AFL do Brasil location in Itajubá has implemented an extensive community awareness program on topics related to environment, health, and safety (EHS) and sustainability.
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Coating Reformulation Brings Environmental, Economic Benefits
Rather than take a low-risk, low-effort approach to reduce hazardous air pollutants (HAP), Alcoa’s Warrick Operations in Indiana (USA) chose to reformulate the coatings it uses to gain long-term environmental and economic benefits. The project took nine years to complete.
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Continuous Safety Improvement Nets Injury Reductions, Recognition
Alcoa’s San Ciprian primary aluminum plant in Spain embarked on continuous safety improvements that reduced lost workdays and total recordable injuries and garnered recognition as the best 2003 safety performer among European smelters.
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Dross Processing System Provides Safety, Cost, Environmental Benefits
An onsite hot dross processing system at Alcoa’s Tennessee Operations (USA) has achieved significant safety, cost, and environmental benefits.
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Employee-developed Technology Solves Water Treatment Challenge
Employees at Alcoa’s Poços de Caldas smelter and refinery in Brazil developed new water treatment technologies that eliminated the potential for environmental contamination and cost less to install and operate.
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Engagement, Environmental Assessment Underscore Efficiency Upgrade Approval
A state-of-the-art environmental impact assessment and an innovative community engagement process help Alcoa’s Pinjarra refinery in Australia receive government approval of an efficiency upgrade in seven months.
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Greening of the Supply Chain
Reducing Alcoa’s consumption of resources is a key sustainability goal, and this “green” practice cascaded into the company’s supply chain through an innovative pilot program conducted in Mexico in conjunction with the World Environment Center.
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New Rolling Method Win for Environment, Alcoa Business
Through the development of a new method for cold rolling bright tread sheet, Alcoa’s Davenport Works in Iowa reduced visible emissions (opacity) by 90%, increased finishing line speeds by 400%, and saved US$3.5 million per year due to production gains.
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Process Changes Result in 85% Reduction in Water Usage, Discharge
Through the installation of closed-loop rinsing and cooling circuits, Alcoa Fastening Systems’ Saint Cosme facility in France has achieved an 85% water consumption and discharge reduction and saved approximately US$40,000 annually in operating costs.
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Structured Approach to Attaining EHS Goals
Alcoa locations globally are required to implement an environment, health, and safety management system by year-end 2005 to bring a structured approach to attaining the company’s goal of zero work-related injuries and illnesses and zero environmental incidents.
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Using One Process Waste to Neutralize Another
By using waste carbon dioxide (CO2) to neutralize the alkalinity in bauxite residue, Alcoa’s Kwinana refinery in Australia has lowered environmental risks, increased opportunities to reuse a solid waste, and reduced the need for significant ongoing management of bauxite residue storage areas.
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2004
A Future Look at Fatality Prevention
Alcoa increasingly focuses on identifying and eliminating highly improbable causes of fatalities within its operations.
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Alcoa Acts on Climate Change Issue
Alcoa has committed to a 25% reduction in its worldwide directly controlled greenhouse gas emissions by 2010 from a base year of 1990.
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Alumar Ranked Best in World for EHS and Community
The Alcoa-managed Alumar refinery and smelter in SĂŁo Luis, Brazil, was ranked the best among 55 locations around the world audited by BHPBilliton in 2003.
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Applying Alcoa EHS Expertise Outside the Company
Alcoa employees are serving the U.S. government as volunteer advisors, transferring environmental, health, and safety expertise gained inside Alcoa to projects and initiatives outside the company.
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Assessments Explore Aluminum’s Lifetime Environmental Effects
Life cycle assessments and modeling are helping Alcoa and the aluminum industry understand the metal’s effects on the environment.
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Biodiversity Studies Underpin Mine Rehabilitation in Suriname
A biological expedition and permanent monitoring plots will help Alcoa’s Suriname Aluminum Company (Suralco) in its future mine rehabilitation efforts.
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Capturing Ergonomic Improvements Through Technology, Tools, Training
An ongoing program at Alcoa’s San Ciprián smelter and refinery in Spain reduced ergonomic incidents by 94% between 1992 and 2003 and resulted in no lost workdays due to ergonomic injuries.
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Caustic Soda Waste Becomes Useful
Two Alcoa facilities have developed processes to either reduce the amount of caustic soda waste produced or use the waste to provide a solution to a second environmental issue.
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Customer Need Drives Brazilian Recycling Solution
Alcoa and three other companies are developing a technologically advanced recycling plant to recover aluminum from post-consumer aseptic packaging from customer Tetra Pak.
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Dynamic System Reduces River Fluoride Levels
Alcoa’s Deschambault smelter in Canada is using an innovative technique called dynamic rainwater management to determine how much stored rainwater the smelter can release into a nearby river to keep fluoride levels within acceptable limits.
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Environmental Awareness Campaign Boosts Performance, Perceptions
Alcoa Harderwijk in The Netherlands increased environmental awareness, leading to reduced environmental incidents, ISO 14001 certification, and improved external relationships.
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Environmental Education Program Provides Support to Teachers in Hungary
Alcoa-Köfém Kft. in Hungary co-developed an educational program that is increasing environmental awareness among primary school students throughout the city of Székesfehervár.
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Extracting Reusable Oil from Rolling Mill Wastewater
A treatment process at Alcoa’s Tennessee Operations (USA) extracts the oil from the facility’s wastewater so it can be sold as an alternative source of fuel.
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Filtration Process Recycles Paint, Water for Coating Line
An ultrafiltration process recovers water-based paint from wastewater at Alcoa’s Sidney, Ohio (USA), facility, eliminating landfilled waste and reducing waste-disposal and paint costs.
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Focus on Ergonomics Improves Health, Lifts Productivity
Initiatives are underway throughout Alcoa to seek and eliminate the root causes of ergonomic injuries through the redesign of work according to Alcoa Business System principles.
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For the Birds: Alcoa Creates Australian Wetlands
In Australia, Alcoa designed, established, and continues to manage a self-sustaining wetland system that provides habitat for more than 80 bird species and other animals.
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Global Strategy Improves Occupational Health Program at Howmet
Alcoa’s Howmet Castings instituted a global strategy that resulted in extensive occupational health processes and initiatives, all of which contribute to workplace health management.
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Green Roofs Reduce Volume, Cost of Storm-water Discharge
An Alcoa-sponsored strategic and technical analysis of green roof applications worldwide concluded these roofs are an effective method of managing storm-water discharge.
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Improved Smelting Technology Reduces Greenhouse Gases in Australia
An eight-year quest to improve the performance of the smelting pots at Alcoa’s Portland Aluminium in Australia has resulted in reduced energy consumption, improved environmental performance, and reduced operating costs.
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Investments Reduce Process Water Discharge by 96%
Through new technologies and processes, Alcoa’s Davenport Works in Iowa (USA) decreased the amount of water it discharges to the Mississippi River by 96% on dry days.
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Managing Worldwide Environmental, Health, and Safety Performance
Alcoa has set and reinforced objectives for implementing environmental, health, and safety management systems that are compatible with standards developed by the International Standards Organization (ISO).
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Online EHS Training Boosts Information Sharing, Saves Money
Overcoming cost, time, and language challenges typically associated with communicating in a global organization, Alcoa has instituted web-based environment, health, and safety (EHS) training.
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Pollution Prevention Program Cuts Wastes, Energy Consumption, Costs
Reaching for ambitious waste reduction targets led Alcoa’s Hampton Howmet Castings in Hampton, Virginia (USA), to a 24% increase in waste recycling and a 107% reduction in costs over three years.
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Reducing Stormwater Volume, Contamination Through Natural Systems
By using nature to reduce and treat stormwater runoff, Alcoa Mt. Holly in South Carolina (USA) has the potential to realize a 50% reduction in stormwater discharge volume and significant decreases in the residual runoff’s contaminants.
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Reengineering Project Improves Furnace Efficiency
By reengineering how aluminum ingots are preheated prior to hot rolling, Alcoa’s Warrick Operations in Indiana (USA) cut natural gas consumption, shaved energy costs, and reduced greenhouse gases—with zero capital dollars spent.
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Safety Focus Achieves Lowest Workday Rates in Alcoa’s History
Alcoa locations worldwide implemented safety-focused programs and processes that helped the company post the best lost workday and total recordable injury rates in its history in 2003.
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Safety Program Tackles Summer’s Spike in Injury Rates
Alcoa’s Pt. Henry rolling mill in Victoria, Australia, implemented a summer safety program that resulted in a 60% reduction in serious injuries and a 15% reduction in all injuries.
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Sending Employees Home Healthier
Alcoa believes that it is possible for people to go home healthier than when they came to work, and a company-sponsored smoking cessation program in Brazil is doing just that.
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Solid Waste Recycling Exceeds 100% at Brazilian Facility
A solid waste minimization strategy at the Alumar refinery and smelter in Brazil increased recycling rates, generated less waste, reduced environmental effects, and eliminated the need to construct new waste disposal areas.
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Supporting Young People’s Environmental Quest
Millennium Kids, with Alcoa’s support, has encouraged young people in Western Australia and around the world to become environmental leaders.
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Taking the Safety Message to Schools
The Alcoa Schools Safety Initiative in Australia is based on the belief that the safety experiences and knowledge of Alcoa employees is valuable to the wider community, particularly young people.
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Training Speaks the Language of Safety
Alcoa’s packaging facility in Avenel, New Jersey, sponsored and helped conduct much-needed safety training for the underserved Hispanic segment of the U.S. working population.
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Using Alcoa Business System to Maintain Health and Safety
By integrating Alcoa’s health and safety practices into the Alcoa Business System, Aluminerie de Bécancour, Inc. in Quebec, Canada, reduced maintenance injuries and improved response time to maintenance requests.
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Waste Reduction Initiative Beats Alcoa, Government Goals
Since starting operations in 1992, Alcoa’s Deschambault smelter in Canada has integrated waste management into its production processes and implemented programs that reduced landfilled waste 60% between 1995 and 2000 and an additional 33% from 2000 to 2003.
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Wetlands Project Engages Community
Expansion of existing wetlands at Alcoa’s Massena East Plant in New York (USA) resulted in more than an enhanced environmental outcome.
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2003
Achieving Compliance in the Ever-changing Regulatory Landscape
A new web-based compliance management system helps locations identify, track, and verify they are in compliance with all applicable regulatory requirements.
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Alcoa Plant Achieves Zero Landfilled Waste Goal
Alcoa’s Reynolds Food Packaging plant in Wakefield, Massachusetts (USA) eliminated all waste going to landfills, freeing up community landfill space, saving trees, and reducing water and raw material consumption.
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Alcoa Responds to Employee, Community Concerns
In Western Australia, Alcoa's Wagerup Refinery worked to eliminate odors and other emissions that have been scrutinized and criticized by the media, surrounding community, and government.
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Alcoa Wetlands Serve as Natural Remediation Systems
Alcoa's Tennessee Operations (United States) is using an innovative wetlands technique to let nature clean up complex cyanide and diesel fuel.
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Alumar Refinery Meets Zero Injury Goal During Facility-wide Overhaul
Alcoa’s refinery in São Luis, Brazil completed ahead of schedule a facility-wide overhaul that resulted in zero injuries of any kind and an increase in alumina output.
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Chrome-free Process Satisfies Customers, Brightens Environmental, Health, and Safety Performance
Alcoa Itapissuma in Brazil voluntarily eliminated chrome from its paint line operations to reduce potential impact to the environment and employee health and safety.
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Connecting the Local Environment and Education
Alcoa’s Portland operations spearheaded a project in Victoria, Australia, to develop a comprehensive local environmental curriculum for the region’s primary schools.
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Continuing Commitment to Green Power
Alcoa's participation in hydroelectric projects in North America, Brazil, and Iceland are part of the company's promise to investigate renewable resource worldwide.
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Dust Recycling Process Eliminates Landfilled Waste
At Alcoa's Warrick smelting operation in Indiana (USA), a carbon-dust recycling process is eliminating 1,633 metric tons (1,800 tons) of landfilled waste annually.
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Furnace Replacement Project Maximizes Recycled Material
Careful planning in the removal of a ring furnace at Alcoa’s Warrick Operations in Indiana (USA) resulted in about 90% of demolished material being recycled.
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Getting Caught Doing Something Right
Employees at Alcoa’s Flexible Packaging operation in Richmond, Virginia (USA), are encouraged to take an active part in the plant’s safety activities.
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Global Effort Reduces Employee Risk During SARS Outbreak
Through a coordinated global effort, Alcoa protected employees scattered around the world from a new viral respiratory illness.
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Leadership Crucial for Creating Safe Workplaces
Two Alcoa facilities in the United States use items like orange vests and safety cards to increase awareness of safety and help reduce injury rates by up to 65% or more.
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Listening to Frogs: Partnership Monitors Environmental Conditions
Frogs are sensitive environmental barometers, and the Alcoa Frog Watch program in Australia is soliciting community involvement to monitor and conserve this amphibian population.
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Lowering Workplace Exposure to Hexavalent Chromium
Following the release of credible independent studies on the long-term health risks for people exposed without protection to hexavalent chromium, Alcoa reduced its workplace exposure limit almost 200 times below certain government guidelines.
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Mine Collaboration Sparks Award-winning Reclamation Project
More than 162 hectares (400 acres) of warm-season prairie grasses planted at Alcoa's Squaw Creek Mine in Indiana (United States) are providing refuge to myriad wildlife and serving as an example of a reclamation success.
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Mobile Equipment Wired for Safety
Alcoa blends mobile equipment with advanced technology in an effort to reduce the potential for injuries and fatalities and to increase fleet efficiency.
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New Recycling Plant Reduces Landfilled Waste
An industrial waste is being recycled at Alcoa Kaal’s rolling mill in Victoria, Australia, eliminating 6,000 metric tons (6,614 tons) of landfilled waste annually and recovering materials for use in the aluminum and other industries.
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New Treatment System Cleans Air, Recovers Oil for Reuse
Alcoa’s Itapissuma facility in Brazil invested US$2.15 million in an air treatment and oil recovery system that reduced volatile organic compounds emissions by more than 90% and increased oil recovered from the rolling operation by 66%.
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On the Track to Safety
Alcoa helps increase railroad safety awareness in Louisville, Kentucky (USA), following an accident on tracks near the plant property.
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Preserving a River, Stimulating a Community
Alcoa, in partnership with a community foundation and more than 40 local stakeholders, worked to preserve the unique and irreplaceable assets of a U.S. river system.
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Production Going Up, Emissions Heading Down in Smelter Project
An emissions reduction project at Alcoa’s Deschambault smelter in Canada underscored the feasibility of increasing production while concurrently decreasing environmental effects.
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Production Improvement Nets Environment, Health, and Safety Benefit
What started as a production project to improve coating line speed at Alcoa’s Lancaster Works in Pennsylvania (USA) turned into an environmental, health, and safety improvement project as well.
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Reducing Smelter Emissions, Waste
Improvements at the Poços de Caldas smelter in Brazil reduced emissions, solid waste, and the amount of time operators spend in gaseous and high-temperature conditions.
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Return of the Forest
In Western Australia, Alcoa mines bauxite under an environmental strategy that has led to increasing capacity for reestablishment of a jarrah forest ecosystem after mining.
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Returning Wasteland to Nature
Alcoa's Poços de Caldas refinery operation in Brazil transforms a bauxite residue disposal area into a natural research laboratory.
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Safety Challenge Reverses Trend of Increased Injuries during Summer
To reverse the trend of increased injuries during the hot summer months, nine U.S. locations participated in a safety challenge that resulted in fewer safety incidents than any previous summer and heat stress illnesses that were at an all-time low.
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Safety Focus Achieves Zero Recordable Incidents after Millions of Hours Worked
Alcoa’s Itajubá facility in Brazil serves as an example that zero is possible to achieve and maintain.
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Systematic, Consistent Safety Approach Yields International Award
The safety performance at Alcoa’s Suralco alumina refinery is named best in the world after years of concerted effort to reduce injuries and incidents.
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The Alcoa Landcare Project
Since 1989, Alcoa has been helping miners and farmers in Australia use sound land management practices to repair degraded agricultural land, conserve biodiversity, and protect regional waterways.
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Unique Research Initiative Focuses on Injury and Disease Prevention
Alcoa participates in a unique research initiative to identify the preventable factors contributing to injury and chronic disease among Alcoa employees and the means to minimize or eliminate these factors.
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Voluntary Effort Reduces Wastes, Landfill Areas
Alcoa’s Itapissuma facility in Brazil reduced the volume of its landfilled solid waste to just 3% of the total waste it generates and voluntarily completed a comprehensive remediation of its industrial waste disposal areas.
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Wildlife Habitats Enhance Alcoa Sites, Surrounding Communities
Two Alcoa locations in the United States are working with local communities to create and sustain wildlife habitats that will provide aesthetic as well as environmental benefits.
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Without an Environmental Footprint
Through a new environmental policy, Alcoa's Aluminerie de BĂ©cancour in Quebec, Canada, pursues an ambitious goal of zero environmental footprint.
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2002
A Growing Community Partnership
A unique partnership between Alcoa and a Texas facility for special-needs adults provides trees for mine reclamation efforts.
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Alcoa Alloys Help Turn Auto Industry Green
New Alcoa-developed long-life alloys make environmentally responsible automotive condensers feasible.
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Alcoa Plants Reduce Noise Levels
Alcoa sets an initial target to reduce noise levels by at least 20% for each plant's top 10 unacceptable exposure groups where the risk of hearing loss is highest and noise reduction is feasible.
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Alcoa: The Alumar Refinery and Smelter–Brazil
Alcoa Aluminio in Brazil operates the largest alumina refinery in South America and the second largest smelter on that continent. The Alumar plant, one of Alcoa's most modern smelters and refineries, is situated in São Luís, in Northern Brazil.
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Audits Target Environmental, Health, and Safety Responsibility
Alcoa performs an extensive internal audit on each location at least every three to four years.
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Cementing a Spent Pot Lining Recycling Process
Alcoa's Brazilian smelters and the country's cement industry reduce an aluminum industry hazardous waste.
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Construction Project Proves Zero Injuries Is Possible
An Alcoa construction project in Monterrey, Mexico, is proving that zero work-related injuries is possible when safety is the highest priority.
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Continuing to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Major participants in the aluminum industry and the Quebec government sign an agreement to voluntarily reduce greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 200,000 tons from Quebec-based facilities by 2007.
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Data Analysis Launches Safety Improvement Initiatives
By examining existing safety data, Alcoa Engineered Products found opportunities to improve safety worldwide
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Designing Out Health and Safety Hazards
A global team is working with architects and engineers to design out health and safety hazards at Alcoa's planned Iceland smelter.
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Fall Prevention: Progress Achieved, Improvement Continues
A comprehensive fall protection program at Alcoa's Branford Operations contributes to Alcoa's progress in reducing the risk of fatalities and injuries.
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Going Beyond Zero Injuries and Work-related Illnesses
Alcoa-Köfém in Hungary is working to meet Alcoa's goal of sending employees home healthier than when they came to work.
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Identifying and Correcting Ergonomic Risks
Alcoa has a corporate-wide initiative to identify and correct ergonomic risks in every location throughout the world.
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Limiting Employee Exposure to Chemicals
A global team of Alcoa health professionals routinely searches for better management practices for the various chemicals that are used in Alcoa's manufacturing processes.
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Lockout/Tagout/Verify: Eliminating Surprises
Lockout/tagout/verify is a safety procedure that ensures equipment won't start up or be started accidentally during maintenance or servicing activities.
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Making Safety Visible and Accessible
At Alcoa's Texarkana Mill Products in Texas, two simple yet extremely effective programs make safety visible and accessible.
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Nurturing Environmental Awareness
in Hungary
Alcoa-Köfém in Hungary instituted a sweeping environmental awareness campaign addressed to not only employees but also the surrounding community.
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On The Path To Zero Waste
A waste minimization program at Alcoa's Victoria, Australia, operations reduced general waste sent to the landfill by 99.4% in 10 years.
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On the Trail to Industry/Community Cooperation
Alcoa is helping a coalition of park agencies blend industrial education with community recreation.
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Power Plant Breaks Ground in Nitrogen Oxide Reduction
Alcoa is constructing a $48 million selective catalytic reduction system in Indiana that will reduce nitrogen oxide emissions by an average of 42% annually.
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Protecting a Seabird in Australia
Government, the community, and Alcoa work to protect Australia's only mainland gannet breeding location.
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Providing Meaningful Work to People with Disabilities
In Portland, Australia, Alcoa opens the door of its smelter operations to people with disabilities through the innovative Seawinds Nursery.
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Rapid Integration after Acquisition
After an acquisition, Alcoa must ensure the acquired company's facilities and employees quickly meet stringent requirements in environment, health, and safety.
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Rebirth of an Orchid
An industry, government, and community partnership works to ensure the long-term survival of the fragile Melblom's Spider-orchid in Victoria, Australia.
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Recycling: It's in the Can
Recycled aluminum cans are a major factor in the aluminum industry's recycling success story. About two thirds of aluminum ever produced is still in use.
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Remediation: A Science-based Approach to Managing Contaminants
Alcoa devotes significant resources and an average of $75 million annually to manage sources of contaminant.
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Respiratory Program Best in Brazil
Alcoa's Poços de Caldas smelter in Brazil implemented a new respiratory protection program that was named the best in the country for 2002.
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Return of the Native Plants
Since Alcoa's Portland smelter opened in Victoria, Australia, in 1986, the company has been working to return pre-European-settlement vegetation to much of the adjacent buffer zone.
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Safety Programs Focus on Employee Awareness, Actions
Alcoa employees learn how their awareness and actions can affect their safety.
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Soliciting the External Viewpoint
Alcoa's Warrick Operations in Indiana uses an environmental forum and community report to solicit stakeholder views.
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Studying the Link between Health and Work Environment
Since 1994, Alcoa has been involved in one of the largest and most comprehensive occupational health studies carried out in Australia.
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Switch to Biodiesel Fuels Workplace Improvements
The use of biodiesel is a step forward for employee health and the environment at Alcoa's Davenport Works.
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Tackling PCB Contamination of the Grasse River
Alcoa works to remediate the Grasse River in northern New York.
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Up Close and in Confined Spaces
Alcoa has identified confined-space entry as one of its critical fatality-prevention priorities.
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Web-based System Keeps EHS Progress on Track
Alcoa Wheel and Forged Products uses a web-based system to track each location's progress in meeting annual environmental, health, and safety goals.
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When the Heat Is On: Working Safely in Hot Conditions
Hot environments, which are present seasonally or year-round in many of Alcoa's industrial facilities, require special safety procedures to prevent heat-related illnesses.
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2001
A Native Approach to Mine Reclamation in Suriname
Women from a nearby native village who are skilled planters and crop tenders gather and plant seedlings as part of the mine reclamation effort at Suralco in Suriname.
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A Push for Safer Loading Docks
Innovative products like dock restraints to prevent early truck departures and fall protection systems are making Alcoa loading docks safer.
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Alcoa in Brazil
Alcoa shares the Brazilian federal government's assessment for long-term hydroelectric development for energy and economic development in that country.
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Conservation Effort Bridges Industry, Community, Government
A coalition of industry, community, and government stakeholders developed and funded a plan to protect the non-industrialized portion of the Anglesea Heath in Victoria, Australia.
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Continuing Commitment to Green Power
Alcoa's participation in hydroelectric projects in North America and Brazil are part of the company's promise to investigate renewable resource worldwide.
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Eliminating Fatalities
A statistical tool called fault tree analysis and swat teams composed of various plant personnel are examples of how Alcoa is working to eliminate fatalities around the world.
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Exploring a Potential Greenfield Project in Iceland
The Icelandic government, National Power Company, Landsvirkjun and Alcoa investigate the possibility of constructing a state-of-the-art aluminum production plant run by hydroelectric power in Eastern Iceland.
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Fall Prevention Spans the Globe
Alcoa facilities in the United States and Italy undertook initiatives to prevent fall hazards, one of the most common causes of injury and death in industrial operations.
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Hard-won Environmental Progress
A new recycling process developed at Alcoa's Portland smelter in Australia takes hazardous spent pot lining and converts it into useable aluminum fluoride and synthetic sand.
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Integrating Industry with Nature
An environmental park at Alcoa's Consórcio de Alumínio do Maranhão facility near São Luís, Brazil serves as the area's recreational and environmental focus.
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Less to the Landfill as Sludge Becomes Usable
Alcoa's Fossanova facility in Italy created a recycling process for anodizing acid wastewater that results in a commercially viable product sold for use in the water treatment and paper industries.
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Lessening the Impact of Bauxite Residue
Alcoa World Alumina Australia developed a dry stacking process for storing bauxite residue that protects local groundwater, requires less land, and hastens the rehabilitation process.
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Lessons Learned about the Renewable Energy Marketplace
The Green Power Group outlined the numerous factors and challenges surrounding renewable energy and affecting Alcoa's position on the issue.
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Mining: Temporary Use of the Land
Alcoa believes that areas used for mining must be restored to a land use that is socially and ecologically sustainable.
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One Million Trees
Alcoa employees in more than 20 countries are working toward the goal of planting one million trees by 2008 as part of Alcoa's commitment to sustainable development and environmental initiatives.
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Recycling the Previously Unrecyclable
A highly automated aluminum recycling plant in Aviles, Spain remelts previously unrecyclable painted and lacquered aluminum scrap and thermal brake products.
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Replacing Equipment, Reducing Emissions
Equipment replacements at Alcoa-Köfém in Hungary and the Ludwigshafen facility in Germany reduced emissions and energy consumption.
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Safe Disposal of Household Hazardous Wastes
Each year, Alcoa-Köfém in Hungary, the Alcoa Technical Center in Pittsburgh, and the Warrick, Indiana, facility collect household hazardous wastes for recycling or safe disposal.
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Setting Benchmarks in Mine Reclamation
Aggressive mine reclamation and educational activities helped the Poços de Caldas mine in Brazil be the first Alcoa location in the Western Hemisphere to achieve ISO 14001 certification.
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The Alcoa Landcare Project
Since 1989, Alcoa has been helping miners and farmers in Australia use sound land management practices to repair degraded agricultural land, conserve biodiversity, and protect regional waterways.
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Wired for Heat
Alcoa Fujikura Ltd. (AFL) Automotive eliminated lead, chromium, and other environmentally damaging substances from wire products used by automotive OEMs around the world.
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Working to Reduce Greenhouse Gases
By reducing anode effect problems, Alcoa has met established greenhouse gas emission reductions and is making progress toward reaching new reduction goals.
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