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Focus Areas

Safety

Safety is Greif's first priority and a key component of The Greif Way. Safety is continuously communicated throughout the organization. We encourage involvement in the safety process and promote reporting to eliminate risk.

Greif's safety principles are built upon three major areas: physical work envionrment, management systems and people. These areas are interdependent; all require constant attention.

The physical work environment includes safety guarding of equipment, tools and facilities through engineering design, and control to eliminate hazards.

Management systems include policies and procedures to protect employees; internal and independent third-party audits to identify risk and benchmark progress; and the use of our proprietary online safety management system (CMS) used for scheduling, monitoring, performance tracking and reporting. The CMS allows us to share information across the globe.

The most important aspect of our safety focus is people and their attitudes, beliefs, knowledge, skills and abilities to do their jobs in a safe manner. By providing regular training and feedback, we encourage leading by example, and try to instill safety as a personal value that has relevance to whatever the individual is doing at any time. We want our people to be safe at work, and to maintain safe behaviors off the job as well.

Read our safety report for 2009 and 2010.

Energy

With the goal to reduce energy consumption per unit of production by 15 percent of our fiscal 2008 baseline by the end of fiscal 2015, we have numerous projects and programs underway designed to help us.

Solar panels, wind turbines, high-efficiency lighting, compressor maintenance and replacement, HVAC system upgrades and other activities have contributed to energy savings for the company.

Water

We are particularly aware of the challenge the world's population will face in the coming years with the availability and distribution of potable water. We are working on developing products that will efficiently and safely store and transport water, as well as initiatives that will reduce our own water consumption at our sites around the globe.

Waste

Since 2003, when we introduced the Greif Business System, we have been actively eliminating waste from our manufacturing processes. In 2011, we are taking our commitment one step further, preparing to issue the challenge to find ways to eliminate ALL waste going to landfills.

Carbon and GHG Emissions

Our third carbon footprint report was completed by Battelle in 2010. Battelle is the world's largest independent research and development organization, working to advance scientific discovery and application.

We have reduced our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 13 percent from our baseline year of fiscal 2006.

With many projects completed and many still underway, we are systematically reducing our carbon footprint.