SHE Goals

According to the principles of a sustainable development Roche is striving for a continuous improvement also in the area of safety, health and environmental protection. This can be achieved by changing behaviour, by adapting equipment to the most recent standards or developing new innovative processes. However, a sustainable effect can only be obtained within a longer time frame.

Roche wants to further promote this trend of continuous improvement in the various areas of SHE and achieve progress where ever it is possible and economically viable.

This is why we have set long and short term goals for SHE key parameters:

Long term goals in safety


goal	basis	target date	status 2011
improve Roche accident rate (number of lost working days due to occupational accidents) by 12% (RAR < 0.07) until 2015 and by 24% (RAR < 0.06) until 2020	2010	2015 2020	Over the long term the RAR develops towards the goals set (see graphic below). Although current results are below the goals set, fluctuations are possible in the years to come due to the sensitivity of the parameter and the low level reached.
reduce number of occupational accidents causing lost working days (counting in cases per 200’000 working hours) by 12% (< 0.6) until 2015 and by 27% (< 0.5) until 2020	2010	2015 2020	The positive development over the last years demonstrates that we are on track.
keep Roche illness rate (number of lost working days due to occupational illnesses) below 0.01	2010		The positive development over the last years demonstrates that we are on track. However, due to the sensitivity of the parameter and the low level already reached every single case has a significant impact on the figure which became evident this year.
bring number of cases of occupational illnesses causing lost working days (counting in cases per 200’000 working hours) below 0.32 until 2015	2010	2015	The positive development over the last years demonstrates that we are on track.

Roche Accident Rate (RAR)

Long term goals in environmental protection

The overarching goal in the environmental field is the reduction of our total environmental impacts per employee. The calculation of an eco-balance combines all parameters that contribute to the total impact. Defining a Group goal for this figure allows each of our sites to choose the areas where they believe they can make a meaningful improvement. In addition energy consumption and - linked to it - greenhouse gas emissions are in the focus.


goal	basis	target date	status 2011
improve energy efficiency (GJ/employee) by 10% until 2014 and by 20% until 2020	2009 2010	2014 2020	With a big step forward in 2011 we are now on track to reach our 2014 goal (see graphic below).
bring share of sustainable energies in total energy consumption to 20% until 2020	2010	2020	The share of sustainable energies could be increased to 9.2% which is a good step forward.
reduce CO₂ emission per employee in line with improving energy efficiency by 20% until 2020	2010	2020	With CO₂ emission per employee being reduced by 2.3% during the reporting year we are on track to reach the 2020 goal.
reduce total environmental impacts (calculated as eco-balance according to Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (BAFU)) per employee by 15% until 2020	2010	2020	With a reduction of 4% in our total environmental impact per employee during the reporting year we are on track to reach our 2020 goal (see graphic below)
reduce total waste water toxicity by 10% until 2020	2015	2020	A method to determine total waste water toxicity for establishing a 2015 baseline is under development, first pilot tests being carried out.

Energy efficiency (GJ per employee)

Ecobalance (mio environmental impact points per employee)

General long term and ongoing SHE goals


goal	target date	status 2011
Improving our SHE education by increasing SHE training per employee per year to an average of 4h.	2020	With approx. 2.6 h of training per employee we are at the same level as last year.
Improving our general SHE performance by sites completing 90% of the recommendations made in an audit report within agreed time lines.		With 89% of recommendations completed we were very close to the goal set. Two sites with a performance of 60-70% significantly lowered the average.
Compliance with the relevant SHE legislation has to be on a level that no significant fines (i.e. > CHF 100’000.-) result from running our business.		For the eighth consecutive year we incurred no significant fines for SHE related violations.

Short term SHE goals

Although we have defined an overall goal for reducing total environmental impacts (eco-balance) covering all impact areas we have in addition set up a number of goals for individual parameters which we are following up in the short term:


parameter	goal 2012
energy	In line with the long term goal (see above) energy efficiency should improve during 2012 and reach 163 GJ per employee.
greenhouse gas emissions	In line with the long term goal (see above) greenhouse gas emissions in tons per employee should decrease to 12.47 t per employee during 2012.
general waste	Excluding construction waste we want to reduce landfilling of general waste by 1% during 2012.
other air emissions (VOC, NO_x, SO₂)	Air emissions such as VOC, NO_x and SO₂ being very low we want to keep these levels in 2012.
TOC emissions	TOC emissions being rather low already we want to keep this level in 2012.
water consumption	Water consumption increasing steadily since 2007 we want to stabilize it during 2012.
total environmental impacts (ecobalance)	In line with the long term goal (see above) total environmental impacts per employee should be reduced by 1% during 2012.