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SEAISI
Environment & Safty & Health
Country Report
Hsin-Jung Chen
Office of Energy and Environment
China Steel Corporation
Taiwan, R.O.C
December 2012
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Contents
Environmental Protection
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Climate Change
Air Pollution
Wastewater
Soil & Groundwater
Waste & Byproduct
Labor Safety and Health
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Management of change
Education and training
Safety culture
Partnership with contractors
Physical examination and care
Disaster prevention plan
Lost Time injuries
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Environmental Protection
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Taiwan's Environmental Performance Ranked
29th Among 132 Nations
The World Economic Forum announced the results
of the worldwide ranking of the Environmental
Performance Index, or EPI, in its latest forum held
in January. Of the 132 nations ranked, Taiwan
came in 29th, ahead of Canada (37th), South
Korea (43rd), Australia (48th), the US (49th),
Singapore (52nd) and China (116th).
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1. Climate Change (1/5)
 Taiwan Takes Action to Reduce Greenhouse Gases
Taiwan has put into effect numerous policies and schemes designed to save
energy and reduce carbon emissions. In accordance with the trends and
conclusions of the UNFCCC COPs, Taiwan is conducting a full inventory
of its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and is formulating responses to
global warming in order to have appropriate GHG mitigation actions in
place. Planning out appropriate actions will start with establishing a legal
framework. Concrete measures will include reducing emissions within
government departments, taking full advantage of market mechanisms,
strengthening public education and promotion, and seeking international
cooperation. This multilateral approach will also include efforts to combine
resources and manpower from government, industry, and academia to work
on emissions reduction and adaptation policies and measures.
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1. Climate Change (2/5)
 GHG Management Acts and Regulations
1. May 9, 2012─ Taiwan EPA announced GHGs as air
pollutants under control by Air Pollution Control
Act (APCA).
2. The GHG Reduction Act:
1) Pending for approval in the Legislative Yuan
2) Authorizes EPA: GHG reporting schemes, intensity
standard, cap and trade system, and auction of
allowances
3) No provisions of maintaining competitiveness and
carbon leakage prevention
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1. Climate Change (3/5)
 Carbon Tax / Fees
1. Local Adaptation Fee
1) Local Government strives to pass a carbon-based Adaptation Fee Local Act,
with tax rate 0.5 USD/tCO2.
2) Disputes in both legal and constitutional level: Currently carbon tax is not
allowed in the local level in Taiwan.
3) EPA ruled that collecting air pollution fee in the local level is against the Air
Pollution Control Act.
4) Currently postponed by City Council until legality proved.
2. Energy Tax
1) Currently under evaluation in Taiwan
2) Coking coal and coke may be taxed
Huge impact on the steel industry
3) The Ministry of Finance has promised to consider competitiveness as well as
environmental protection when setting the rates and complementary measures.
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1. Climate Change (4/5)
 Voluntary GHG Emission Intensity Target(CSC case)
1. 2020 target: 1.97 tCO2/tcs
2. Estimated investment: > 1 billion euro before 2020.
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1. Climate Change (5/5)
 District Energy
Integration
1. CSC supplies surplus
energy to nearby companies
so that they can shut down
low-efficiency or highemission facilities.
2. 2011 external CO2 reduction:
542,000 tons
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2. Air Pollution (1/3)
 PM2.5 Regulation
The EPA set air quality standards for PM 2.5 and more stringent emission
standards for relevant precursors of PM 2.5 such as SO2 and NOx.
Scope
Item
Standards
Units
Air Quality Standard
PM 2.5
35(24hr avg.)
15(annual avg.)
µg/m3
Chimney Emission Standard
Particle
30(existing)
20(new)
mg/m3
Chimney Emission Standard
SO2
100(existing)
50(new)
ppm
Chimney Emission Standard
NOx
100(existing)
65(new)
ppm
 Fugitive Emissions from Stockpile
1. The EPA and local EPB request installation of in-house storage.
2. Only in-house storage are allowed for new installations.
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2. Air Pollution (2/3)
1. Major sources of atmospheric PM 2.5
in Southern Kaohsiung
Gasoline Vehicles (43%) > Secondary Nitrates
(26%) > Diesel Vehicle (17%) > Secondary
Sulfates (10%) > Iron & Steel (4%)
2. Action plans
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2. Air Pollution (3/3)
2. Action plans
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3. Wastewater
 Continuous Monitoring of Wastewater Effluent
1. >10,000 CMD; pH, EC, Temp., COD, and SS
2. Real-time linked to EPA.
 Stricter Effluent Standard
NH3-N and dioxin to be included.
 Storm Run-off Management
1. New standard: all regular items except SS
2. Coal yard: risk of exceeding regulation
 Rain Water Recovery
2011: 290,000 m3
 Industrial Wastewater Purification Plant
13,500CMD
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4. Soil & Groundwater(1/2)
 Remediation Fee
1. The EPA started collecting “Remediation Fee” from the industry since 2001,
and from steel industry since July 2011.
2. The Fee: NT$ 6/ ton Billet
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4. Soil & Groundwater(2/2)
 Cross-ministerial Cooperation to Control Soil and
Groundwater Quality in Industrial Zones
1. EPA began conducting overall inspections of the nation's 151 industrial
zones since 2010
2. The EPA has devised a system of colored "lights" – red, orange, yellow, and
green – to signal different levels of intensity in terms of management work
in the 151 zones.
3. ten industrial zones had soil or groundwater pollution that exceeded the
control limitation
4. The EPA will continue to rigorously inspect all red- and orange-light
industrial zones for soil and groundwater pollution, and expects to complete
its inspections of the 40 zones that have high pollution risk by 2015.
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5. Waste & Byproduct (1/2)
 Steelmaking Slag Recycling
1. Recycling of steelmaking slag is affected by following factors:
1)Heavy Metal Control Standard
 Total chromium > 250 mg/kg = Soil pollution
 Total chromium in BOF slag ~ 1000 mg/kg
potential pollution source if
applied on soil.
2)Expansion problem
2. Steelmaking Slag Modification Process to improve BOF slag expansion to
nearly zero, in operation test since August 2012.
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Labor Safety and Health
(CSC CASE)
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World Steel Association
Safety and Health Excellence Recognition 2012
10.10.2012 New Delhi
worldsteel has recognised four member companies, China Steel
Corporation (CSC), Gerdau, NatSteel, and Tata Steel Limited for
excellence in their safety and health programmes.
China Steel Corporation launched its Safety Promotion Project in
2008. The project focuses on four areas: ‘Safety Improvement
Proposals’ including a ‘To Chairman’ mailbox allowing all employees
to communicate safety concerns directly to the company chairman;
‘Physical Safety Training’ providing real-life simulation of the most
common industry hazards; ‘Safety Care’ to address behavioural issues,
and Health Promotion Activity including annual health examinations
for all employees. The programme has helped to halve the company’s
Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR) between 2008 and 2011.
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1.Management of change
 accidents always happen when there are significant
changesof personnel and working conditions
 establish a Management System of Change to ensure that
every change goes through the hazard identification and risk
assessment
 the result of the assessment to ensure the safety of all
manufacturing processes, activities and services
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2.Education and training
 human errors are involved in most occupational
accidents
 develop working habits to reduce human errors is a key
of our safety and health training
 arrange many exercises to enhance the response ability
of employees to emergencies
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3.Safety culture
 a multi-dimensioned concept which needs to be analyzed
and understood from different points of view.
 in CSC is classified into three dimensions
 Policy: Safety policy statement, organization
management, resource supply.
 Management: Construct CSC’s institutional framework
based on responsibility attribution, safety control,
licenses and training, reward and punishment, audit,
improvement and response and safety care program.
 Personal: To improve personal safety culture by changing
workers’ safety concept, providing education and training,
enhancing personal participation, safety and health care
and bilateral communication.
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4.Partnership with contractors(1/2)
 Contractors’ performance on CSC’s work and their safety
are an important part of business management, whereas
disaster prevention is of the highest priority and is the
most crucial issue due to the nature of their work.
 Improve working conditions:
High employee turnover and aging are common problems for
contractors.
We as a partner made proposals to address the problem of high
employee turnover and working conditions such as increasing the SH
management expenses and the contract price to improve working
conditions, lower the turnover and decrease the possibility of workrelated accidents.
These measures will help us establish a long-term partnership with
the contractors.
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4.Partnership with contractors(2/2)
 Enhance training:
 General training:
• All contractor employees are required to undertake general training to
make them fully understand the safety and health regulations at the
worksite.
• The contractor’s employees should undertake three-hour retaining
courses certified by the Department of Labor Safety and Health every
three years.
• CSC will organize additional safety and health training if needed and
the contractors should assign their workers to participate in the
training.
 Special operation training:
• The contractor's employees engaged in special operation are required
to undertake proper SH training and obtain licenses.
• Those who operate dangerous machines or equipment as designated
by the central government are required to pass the training course and
skill tests approved by the central government.
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5.Physical examination and care(1/2)
Employees: We have a well-equipped clinic with professional medical care
staff to perform diagnoses and provide early treatment as the first defense
for employees’ health. We also subsidize their medical expenses. Due to
the increase of older workers in CSC, it is an important responsibility for us
to emphasize health checks on everyone and the medical staff provides
suggestions on health early to prevent major disease attacks. In 2011,
7,828 employees undertook physical examination and 3,275 employees
undertook special checks.
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5.Physical examination and care(2/2)
Contractors: In addition to the internal professional medical team, we also
cooperate with regional hospitals in Kaohsiung. The specialists provide
services in CSC plants weekly. CSC’s contractors have the same benefits of
medical service and medicine as CSC employees.
Health care: The clinic in CSC reminds workers of key factors for health
improvement based on employees’ physical examination yearly. We also
invite professionals to study the data of employees’ physical examinations
and workplace conditions in order to identify potential dangers and offer
education and training programs.
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6.Disaster prevention plan
 implements the regulations of TOSHMS (Taiwan Occupational Safety and
Health Management System) by setting workplace safety goals and plans
and achieving these goals to create a zero-accident workplace via a PDCA
(plan, do, check and action) loop.
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7.Lost Time injuries
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Minor injuries: 20
disabled injuries: 5
F.R.: 0.25
minor traffic accidents: 11
catastrophic traffic injuries: 17
no deaths
No female workers were injured occupationally in 2011
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Thank you for your
Attention
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