Benefit Mankind with Solar Energy

2013 Corporate Social Responsibility ReportAbout the report

About the report
Scope
Trina Solar began to prepare and publish Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report since 2010. The most recent report was
published in August, 2013.
This report elaborates the concepts, strategies and specific practices of Trina Solar in terms of its corporate social responsibility
in 2013, covering all the factories and operational business units under the direct operational control of this Company. It contains
the information related to the economy, environment, staff and community, and reports the management methods, activities,
measures and key indicators regarding the corporate social responsibility and sustainable development of Trina Solar in 2013.
Our annual Corporate Social Responsibility Repor t is intended to provide stakeholders, including shareholders, potential
investors, customers, employees, communities where we live and work, business partners, public interest organizations, media
and governments with relevant information, to help them understand and evaluate Trina Solar's effects, risks and opportunities
with respect to sustainable development. In addition, we will improve the disclosure quality and gradually widen our road ofgreen sustainable development while actively providing social responsibility-related information.
Framework and Guidelines
This report is prepared according to the Sustainability Reporting Guidelines (G3.1) issued by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI),
and graded as Level A inside the Company. A GRI Content Index is provided in the appendix in the report.
Data Measurement
The data in this report mainly comes from original records about the actual operation of the Company. The information in the reportwill be subject to the internal audit of the Company. For part of the information, external audit is required as well. We also verify thevalidity of the data collection process and the data management system regularly. The Company passed the ISO14001 Environmental
Management System Certification in 2008, the OHSAS18001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System Certification in
2010, the ISO 14064 Organizational-level Greenhouse Gas Emission and Removal Verification in 2011 and the PAS2050 Product Carbon
Footprint Certification in 2012. The validity of these systems is verified via the external audit every year.
Our CSR report is prepared both in Chinese and in English. Each has paper and electronic versions. The electronic version is in the form of
PDF, which is available on the website of this Company. If you have any question, comment or feedback on this report, do not hesitate tocontact us by e-mailing to: EHS_Department@trinasolar.com.
Report Compilation Process

Hampshire, UK•

Develop the preparation plan according to the CSR strategies and establish the preparation team;•Identify the stakeholders, collect the stakeholders’ concerns and determine the framework of contents;•

Prepare the report, modify and perfect the same for multiple times;•

Submit the report to the decision-making level of the Company for approval;•

Publish the report, and collect feedback information for continuous improvement.

Message from the Leadership

Message from the Leadership

Message from the Leadership

Our mission is to benefit mankind with solar energy. We
are dedicated in enhancing the competitiveness of ourWhile continuously developing the business, we spared notechnological innovation and product performance of Trinaefforts to concern about the impact on the environment, in

Solar but also on the professional status of the Company in theorder to better protect the Earth, without which we will not

PV industry. Also in October 2013, Asian Photovoltaic Industry

survive. We kept on increasing the energy utilization rate, andAssociation awarded Trina Solar with Asian PV Award 2013 –strived to improve the energy consumption of products within

Talents Cultivation Award, to honor our contribution to thetheir full service life, and minimized the negative effects ofcultivation of PV talents in Asia. All these awards reflect our

the Company’s operation on the environment, thus playing afirm commitment to creating a safe, healthy and environment-

positive role in climate warming prevention and environmental

friendly work place for our employees, as well as providing

protection. Compared to 2009, the power consumption per

clean, sustainable energy for all mankind.

MW module was reduced by 63.8% in 2013, and the watercompany through continuous innovation, and creating
value for all stakeholders. We are committed to being a

consumption per MW module was reduced by 53.9%. In June,
2013, Trina Solar was awarded with the ISO14064 Greenhouse
Gas (GHG) Emission Verification Certificate issued by BSI (British

responsible corporate citizen, building a safe, healthy andStandards Institute). The carbon emission per MW module inenvironment-friendly work environment for all employees,

2013, the Company successfully passed the surveillance audit

and providing clean and sustainable solar energy for all
mankind!

2012 was reduced by 2.8 tones compare to 2011. In November,based on ISO14001 Environment Management System andthe renewal audit on OHSAS18001 Occupational Health and
Safety Management System. After the audit, such conclusion
was made by TUV auditor that Trina Solar had established andmaintained a mature EHS management system in line withinternational standards.

Welcome to read Trina Solar’s corporate social responsibility(CSR) report of 2013.

Solar kept thinking about how to provide clean, reliable andaffordable energy in a responsible way in such a turbulent
period, so as to make positive contribution to the world’s
economic stability and development. To this end, we actively

Sustainable development is not only a common goal of

worked closely with our customers, peers, communities,

human society, but also the guarantee for human survival

governments and non-governmental organizations,as well as civilization and progress. We are fully aware that

actively participated in resolving international PV trade

an enterprise's sustainable development is inseparable

disputes together with peers and strived to turn crisis intowith the economic development, environmental protection

oppor tunities while providing high-quality and reliable

and social responsibility. As a responsible company, we areproducts and services and satisfying the expectations of allcommitted to being honest and trustworthy, adhering tostakeholders.

ethical standards, and achieving the coordination among
the economic development, environmental protection andsocial responsibility actively for the sustainable development.
Our mission is to benefit mankind with solar energy, andwe are dedicated in enhancing the competitiveness of thecompany through continuous innovation, and creating value
for all stakeholders. We are committed to being a responsible
corporate citizen, building a safe, healthy and environmentfriendly work environment for all employees, and providing
clean and sustainable solar energy for all mankind.

from different countries, with different beliefs and colors,and establish and improve personnel training and incentive
systems, concern about employees’ health, and stimulate
their enthusiasm to achieve good performance. In August,
2013, Trina Solar PV modules ranked first again among global
solar manufacturers in the comprehensive rating on solar
manufacturers’ product environment and social responsibility
in terms of enterprise’s extended responsibility, transparencyof emissions, employees’ rights, occupational health andsafety, use of chemicals, supply chain responsibility andreleased by SVTC (Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition). In Octoberplus the settlement of international PV trade disputes and thereliable security, which means the recognition not only on

our market share in the emerging markets such as China,
Japan and other Asia Pacific regions while steadily increasing
our market share in existing markets such as Europe and the

The year of 2013 was another challenging year for the solar

United States. The diversified market distribution reduced

photovoltaic (PV ) industry. In the first half of the year, theoperational risks, and facilitated our sustainable development.

whole photovoltaic industr y was still facing enormous

With joint efforts of all Trina Solar employees, the Company

challenges, affec ted by the subsequent effec ts of theturned into profit from Q3 of 2013 after eight consecutive

international financial crisis and the international PV tradequar ters of loss, mak ing a positive contribution to thedisputes. As a global leader in the photovoltaic industry, Trinasustainable economic development.

future for our communities. In January 2013, China Foundation
for Pover ty Alleviation awarded Trina Solar as Pover ty
Alleviation Ambassador 2012, for recognizing Trina Solar’sdonation to build “Trina Road” in Wuqia County, Xingjiang.
In 2013, with our technological and resource advantages, we
actively cooperated with various charitable organizations
to donate PV modules to schools and orphanages in Liberia,
Tanzania and Mexico, so as to support the students in local

Looking ahead, keeping pragmatic, progressive, innovativeand cooperative will be the main theme in the process of
Trina Solar’s global development. As a pioneer in China’s PV
industry and a leading solar module manufacturer, system
integrator and service provider in the world, we will continue
to focus on the low-carbon economy and green energy,
promote green development, and gradually move towards
the low-consumption, low-pollution, sustainable low-carbon
development road, achieving harmonious coexistence with theenvironment.

hazardous materials management, according to the results

Solar Industry Award by virtue of its monitoring feature andover 60% compared to that of 2012. We successfully improved

also reminds us of the responsibility to create a sustainable

life quality of the people in Africa and even around the world.

supporting China's PV market issued by China Government,

In 2013, Trina Solar’s shipment was up to 2.58GW, increased bybrought by our sustainable development and operations, butschools and orphanages with clean energy, and improve the2013, Trina Solar’s innovative product Trinasmart won the 2013

recover and gradually entered a normal consolidation stage.

with Solar Energy” not only makes us fully ponder the impact

wealth. Our production and operation across the world are

In the second half of 2013, benefiting from a set of policies

stabilizing of PV product prices, the solar PV industry began to

be separately considered. The mission of “Benefit Mankind

Excellent employees are Trina Solar's most valuable asset andintended to create a safe working environment for employees
To Distinguished Stakeholders,

We are convinced that interests and responsibilities can not

Jifan Gao
President and CEO of Trina SolarContents
01 Management and Development•

Company Profile•

Corporate Culture•

Corporate governance•

Guidelines and Policies•

Communication with Stakeholders•

Challenges and Opportunities•

Key Performance•Awards02 Care for Mother Earth•

Green Sustainable Development•

Solutions to Climate Change•

Environment-friendly Operation•

Biological Diversity Management

03 Focus on supply chain•

Supplier Management•

Strategic Partners

04 Care for Employees•

Protection of Employees’ Rights•

Recognition of Employees’ Contribution•

Listen to Employees•

Creation of Cultural Environment•

Care for Employees’ Physical and Mental Health•

Employees’ safety•

Work-life Balance

05 Contribution to Society

Clydebank, UK•

Education Support•

Donations•

Volunteer Activities

GRI Index

01Management andDevelopment
Trina Solar is committed to achieving and maintaining highstandards of corporate management, and keeping soundand reasonable corporate governance rules to guarantee theinterests of shareholders, customers and employees; strictly
complying with effective laws and regulations in the country
and region where our business is operated, and with applicableguidelines and regulations issued by regulatory authorities;
and verifying the Company's management system regularly.
We attach great importance to the operation in good faithand compliance, observe laws and regulations, international
prac tices and business ethics, adhere to maintain therelationship with stakeholders, including suppliers, customers,
government departments, partners and competitors based on
the principle of fairness and integrity, winning market shareand respect with our faith, enhancing the Company's internal
quality and value via compliant management, and improving
the management level by information technology.

■■ Company Profile■■ Corporate Culture■■ Corporate Governance■■ Guidelines and Policies■■ Communication with Stakeholders■■ Challenges and Opportunities■■ Key Performance■■ Awards

Tibet, China

012013 Corporate Social Responsibility Report02Management and Development

Management and Development

Company Profile

Corporate Culture

Trina Solar is a world-leading supplier engaged in providing PV modules, system solutions and services. The Company was established

We believe that good corporate culture contributes to the creation of a pleasant business environment, and it is the intrinsic motivationin 1997. Since then, providing reliable, high-performance PV systems is always taken as her mission, although she has developed into afor sustainable development of an enterprise, an important factor to enhance the unity and cohesion and ensure the long-term healthyleading enterprise in the global PV industry. We have never deviated from our core commitments, and kept on supplying customers with

development of a company, the key foundation to establish various types of core competitiveness and the effective guarantee to achieve

highest-valued, clean and reliable solar PV systems.

the corporate mission and vision.

As one of China's earliest PV system integrators, Trina Solar devotes herself to the creation of smart energy together with worldwide

In Trina Solar, “Benefit mankind with solar energy” is a joint commitment of us for the future; “Customer focus, Open mindedness,installers, distributors, utilities and project developers in order to build a sustainable solar industry, constantly leading the industrial

Respect and collaborate for win-win, Pursuit of excellence” is the core belief deep inside our hearts, the cultural gene which we havedevelopment in terms of technology innovation, product quality, promotion of environmental protection and performance of social

consistently insisted on and commonly accepted, and the spiritual guideline leading us to achieve such joint commitment.

responsibilities.
Shipments of 2013

Employees

2.58 GW

13,900MissionVisionCore values

Benefit Mankind withTop Module Supplier, 1st Tier System Integrator, andInnovation Leader in Smart Energy by 2015.

Open Mindedness

Business Coverage

25 Countries

Solar Energy!

Global Leader in Smart Solar by 2020 !

Customer Focus
Respect & Collaborate for Win-Win
Pursuit of Excellence

Organization Structure

In order to incorporate the core values into each employee’s daily life and practice our commitment, we took actions in various forms,

In 2013, with the change of the photovoltaic industry pattern, we continued optimizing the organization structure and identified a

operations, and provide customers with efficient services in unison.

to ensure the core values are rooted in all aspects of our business, so that we could maintain the unity of thought and action in daily

global structural system with three Business units (Module BU, System BU, Energy storage and PV application BU) as the main part,
three regions (Americas, Europe and APMEA) as the drive power, and efficiently supported by functional departments of headquarters tojointly promote the business development.
President & CEO

Customer Focus

Open Mindedness• Customer Oriented• Honesty & Integrity• Service Excellence• Inclusiveness• Leading Needs• Reflection & Improvement• Partnership• Study for Innovation

Core Values

Business Unions

Regions

Respect & Collaborate
for Win-Win

Functional Dept.

• Respect Others• Mutual Trust

Americas

Module BU

Finance & IT

• Altruism• Team Collaboration

EuropeAPMEA

System BU

HR

Energy Storage
and PV
Application BU

Legal Affair

Pursuit of Excellence

Set up a mailbox for corporate culturecommunication to collect each employee’s
suggestions and comments regarding thecultural construction.

C
Establish Trina Solar Culture Construction Team topromote the Company's cultural construction sothat we have correct guidance for thinking andaction in daily work.

• Self-challenge• Mission Achievement

T

I• Positive & Optimistic• Passionate

A

O rg a n i ze t h e co r p o rate c u l t u re fo r u m w h e re Tr i n a S o l a r
employees can express their understanding on the core values,
share experiences and stories associated with the same, andtransmit and gather the endless Trina culture !

ONConduct 360-degree Trina Culture Evaluation to help all the employees have a deeper understanding of Trina Solar’s culture and core values,
get aware of the importance of the same, and know their own advantages and improvement opportunities in the core value-related practice,and take this as the reference to make improvement continuously, so that our core values can become the lasting power for Trina Solar's
growth.

S

Public Affair
Business
Development

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Charter School for Science & Technology
New Orleans, US

03

Trina Solar
Changzhou
Corporate Headquarters

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Management and Development

Anti-Corruption Construction

Corporate Governance

Trina Solar focus on legitimate operation, and adhere to the highest standards of business ethics, which is not limited to compliance withlaws and regulations, but setting out more stringent requirements. We have developed the Management System for Gifts and Benefits
Acceptance, Gifts and Hospitality Management System and Trina Solar Tip-off System, fully reflecting the ethical values and practical

Perfect corporate management is a foundation stone to guarantee stakeholders’ interests and achieve sustainable development. Trina
Solar always performs the customer-oriented concept, constantly improve the Company’s transparent and open management system,
and gradually build a responsible, honest and compliant corporate management mechanism.

principles of Trina Solar. Meanwhile we also require and help all the employees to carry out their work based on these ethical standards.
In 2013, we continued to improve the internal audit and control systems, strictly observed ethical standards, perfected the anticorruption system, and organized the personnel serving on important positions to deeply study the provisions about honest practice,

Board of Directors

so that a comprehensive control mode was gradually formed by conducting prevention and control simultaneously, combined withThe Board of Directors was set in Trina Solar, and Trina Solar Management Rules were developed as well. There are 3 special committees.

education, to avoid the occurrence of corruptions from aspects of awareness and system.

All major issues submitted to the Board of Directors for review, should be discussed by the appropriate committee first, and form theCase: Creating a mechanism to solve employees' problems or doubts

formal proposals, in order to ensure that the Company’s decisions are scientific, standard and efficient.

Audit Committee

Nominating Committee• Review and approve programs
related to employees salary;• Determine board candidates,
selection criteria and procedure;• Approve CEO’s remuneration;• Keep improving and revising
Trina Solar Corporate
Governance Mechanism in linewith company’s development.

• Review board members’ salaries(excluding the CEO) and senior
employees.

The employees can report the misconducts or suspicious business practices (including bribery, embezzlement, fraud,

Corporate Governance andCompensation Committee

Communication with Shareholders

Performance Evaluation

conflicts of interest, misuse of assets etc.) of the Company’s personnel, or suppliers by mail, telephone, correspondence orinterview.

• Review and evaluate theadministrative and financial
risks;

Continuous training or promotion is the base to establish the employees’ awareness of legitimate business. We have
prepared an E-Learning Training Courseware about business ethics for all employees. And the courseware includes• Review the risks assessment
policies;

intensive exercises regarding important knowledge as well, and can warn and instruct the current employees to comply• Assess the management's
measures to control major risks.

corruption-related behaviors via mails in holidays. Depending on clear, simple, direct ways, Trina Solar makes her

Development and Succession Plan

Good Faith & Compliance
We firmly believe that good faith and legal compliance are the foundation for sustainable development. Trina Solar seeks to exceed thecompetitors with superior performance through fair and honest competition, rather than by illegal or unethical business practices. The
Company prohibits infringement of any third party's intellectual property. We adhere to the principles of fairness, good faith and legal
compliance. Each employee is required to treat customers, suppliers and competitors equally and respect their rights.
Business Ethics and Anti-fraud Requirementswith laws and regulations through timely share of cases and improvement of the workflow. We also prevent possible
employees abide by business ethics, and ensures the Company’s business always in line with applicable business ethics
policies.

Risk Management
Risk management and control is a necessary condition for the stable development of an enterprise and to ensure the employees’ safety.
In order to better identify and respond to a variety of financial and non-financial risks, we, with the purpose of being responsible forstakeholders, set up the risk management department, established the risk management system for real-time monitoring risks in the
Company’s daily operation, developed risk improvement programs and identified system management risks to avoid and reduce the lossof the Company due to major incidents.

Trina Solar has established the Code of Business Behaviors and Ethics, which provides general standards of conduct in Trina Solar’s Businesses activities. If the Code set out more stringent requirement than practices or applicable regulations, it should prevail
then, in order to ensure our business activities in line with the highest-standards of business codes and anti-fraud requirements..
The Code is intended to constrain misconducts and advocate the following:• Honest and ethical conduct, including dealing with actual or apparent conflicts ofinterests between personal and professional relationships in an ethical way;
• Full, fair, accurate and timely disclosure of reports and documents that the Company will filewith;• Complying with applicable laws, regulations and rules;

Krempendorf, Germany• Reporting any internal violation of the Code promptly;• Each Trina Solar employee observes the Code.
Trina Solar has established a dedicated worldwide department headquartered in China-Business Ethics Committee, responsible
for construction and promotion of the Company's business ethics. Another dedicated department is set up as well, which is incharge of all business ethics-related and anti-fraud reports, complaints or consultation. In order to identify risks and challenges
in the business environment, we also set such channels and systems like ethics hotline, and special e-mail for anti-fraud purpose,etc. The requirements and practice instructions on the Company’s management are available on Trina Solar’s website: www.
trinasolar.com.
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Management and Development

Guidelines and Policies

Product Stewardship Policy
Trina Solar actively developed the product stewardship policy to ensure safety and environmental protection in terms of R&D,
manufacturing, transportation, application and disposal of PV modules throughout its entire life.

We established and maintained a complete environment management system and occupational health management system in linewith international standards, i.e., ISO14001 and OHSAS18001. We setup Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) policy and Product•

Trina Solar conducts business in a manner that ensures compliance with all applicable regulatory requirements and industry
standards. We commit to integrating environmental, health and safety responsibilities into all stages of our product life cycle.

Stewardship policy. The policies show our top management's commitments to complying with applicable legal and other requirements,
as well as prevention of EHS accidents and continuous improvement. The policies are the motivation for implementing and improving
our EHS management system so that we can maintain and improve our EHS performance.

•

We believe that product stewardship, the ongoing performance improvement of products in terms of environmental, healthand safety aspects, is one of the cornerstones of sustainable business. We act in a responsible manner to protect ouremployees, customers and the communities in which we operate.

Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Policy
Trina Solar is committed to developing, designing and manufacturing of solar photovoltaic modules and related system-enhancing
solutions to lower the overall cost of installed solar system. While supplying clean energy products, we pay attention to employee’s
health, safety and well-being, as well as environmental protection and sustainable development. Our vision is to create a safe, healthy•

Trina Solar pledges to implement effective product stewardship management programs and show our commitment andleadership to meet the customers’ increasing demands on safer and more environmentally sustainable products.

and environmentally-friendly workplace for employees and a harmonious green planet for mankind. Herewith we pledge the following:•

Comply with all applicable EHS laws & regulations and meet interested parties’ requirements.

•

Trina Solar actively strives to use and develop new raw materials and products in a responsible manner by assessing their risks
for current and future generations.

•

Promote sustainable manufacturing and build an environmentally-secure planet by making efficient use of energy
and resources and maximizing raw material recycling.

•

Trina Solar offers product guidance to customers, distributors and users so that our products are safely transported, stored and used.
We voluntarily participate in take-back and recycling program for defective and/or end-of-life (EOL) solar modules.

•

Proactively reduce occupational injury and illness risks and promote employee health and well-being.

•

Commit to the prevention of pollution, occupational injury and illness to minimize its negative impact onenvironment and ensure employee’s health and safety.

•

Enhance employee EHS awareness and encourage employees to participate in EHS programs.

•

Continually improve EHS performance via perfecting EHS management system.

•

Provide transparent EHS reports to stakeholders and other relevant interested parties.

•

Pledge our support and commitment to help our suppliers to improve their EHS performance and take social
responsibility.

•

Trina Solar engages with stakeholders to periodically review the policy statement to ensure that it remains adequate andcontinues to meet stakeholders’ expectations.

Case:Concerning About Customers' Safety and Continuously Improve Product Safety

Trinasmart is an intelligent module. User can see the data relevant
to all modules via their smart phones or laptops in real time.
In case of emergency, just click the mobile device beside you,and the entire system will be shut down. In addition, Trinasmart
technology also improves the safety performance of PV systems.
Upon electrical failure, Trinasmart may automatically turn off thefailed module. If a fire occurs, the module will automatically stop
working, thus reducing the risk to the rescue personnel during thefire fight brought by the high voltage power.

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2013 Corporate Social Responsibility Report08Management and Development

Management and Development

Communication with Stakeholders

Stakeholders

Communication Mode

Our Responsibilities and Commitments

Facing the challenge of sustainable development, we need to work together with all stakeholders, with each one giving full play to hisstrong point, so as to jointly promote the sustainable development of human society via a variety of cooperation. Through identificationof all the stakeholders and the systematic classification management, Trina Solar has established stable, multiple communication• Customers• Customer satisfaction survey• Comply with business ethics• Interview• Provide high quality and safe products and services

channels. For a long time, we constantly listening to voices from the stakeholders, to fully and timely understand and respond tovarious stakeholders’ demands, so that we can better serve our customers, contribute to the community, and meet the expectations ofstakeholders.

• Steady operation• Shareholders

In the future, we will continue to work together with our partners around the world, taking the change of power supply mode as our• General meeting of shareholders• Perfect the corporate governance structure• Regular release of business performance• Timely and accurate disclosure of business
operation conditions and major eventstask, to accelerate the transformation to the clean, reliable and renewable energy. This is an aim, a responsibility, and an opportunity tolead us to go forward!

• Employee satisfaction survey• Training• Employees• Performance appraisal• BBS ( Bulletin Board System) forum• HR hotline• Provide a comfortable workplace• Offer good welfare• Care for employees' health and career development• Employee rational suggestion box

Customer
Organized a salon themed withrenewable energy in Swiss,
to discuss the market potentialof solar industry and newenergy policy of Swiss.

Employee
Hold the communication
meeting on a quarterlybase, providing a bilateralcommunication platform
between the management andthe employees.

Business partners• Environment

Invited representatives from200 worldwide suppliers andbusiness partners to join our
supplier conference, discussing
the new strategy of energy
saving and common
development.

• Energy conservation and emission reduction• Rational use of resources• Waste disposal and compliant emission• Energy conservation and emission reduction• GHG verification• EHS management improvement• Regularly reporting• Government• Policy research, planning and formulation;• Project cooperation• Regular meeting• Business Partners

Chen Changzhi, Vice-chairman of
National People's Congress andChairman of Central Committee,
visited Trina Solar Headquarters
in Changzhou. Our corporate
vision and technical innovation
were praised and recognized by
Mr. Chen.
Government

Two hundred people from
Changzhou Co-link Environment
Protection Association,
Changzhou Xinqiao Primary
School and employees of Trina
Solar participated in treeplanting campaign on 12th March,

Communities

Greg Barker Hill, Minister ofthe Department of Energy andClimate Change, UK., visited
Trina Solar exhibition booth on
the international PV EXPO in UK,
where Trina Solar’s new products
Trinasmart and Honey Module
were exhibited.
Peers• Audit on supplier• Contractor training• Peers / Standard• Community• Legal compliance• Fair competition• Joint development• Promotion of cooperation on mutual trust• Business forum• Promotion of technological innovation• Release research result• Building a sustainable solar industry• Operation of public welfare/charity projects• Employee volunteer activities• Community Communication• Media09• EHS policy notification• Tax payment• Devote to public affairs• Serve for community development• Media Communication• Always pay attention to media opinions• Information disclosure, such as CSR report• Active disclosure of CSR information2013 Corporate Social Responsibility Report10Management and Development

Management and Development

Challenges and Opportunities

Case1: Developing Island PV and Energy Storage Application Area

We believe that, an excellent enterprise can not only brave challenges, but also understand social demands and take the challenge as
an opportunity to explore broader market. In the last year, we kept focusing on the challenges and opportunities around the world andIn early 2013, the State Council issued “The Twelfth Five Year Plan of National Marine Economy”, whichaccordingly developed long-term development strategy. Confronted with Sino-Europe PV trade dispute, we took a lead to promote thepointed out that we should take an energy-conserving and environment-friendly road for marine economy

settlement of the dispute and broad our market share in Europe.

development. Based on the strategic demands for the new energy exploration and the sustainable

Challenges and Opportunities in 2013
• Benefited from the supporting policies
of Chinese government and the joint
efforts of PV enterprises, the global
Major
opportunity

PV market has begun to show a signof stabilization and entered into a
new time of high performance, highquality, high differentiation andhighly brand-oriented development.

Ways of Responding to Challenges& Commitment to Sustainable Development• Maintain our leading position in cost, quality and brand by

development, Trina Solar actively studied the power supply quality and utilization efficiency of island
distributed power generation, island distributed energy storage and smart micro grid, which put a solid
foundation for the energy storage and photovoltaic application in island market.
In September, 2013, the 18 th National Island Joint Meeting was held in Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province. At

innovation and cooperation. Localize our key technology andthe “Island Ecological Civilization Construction Forum”, Trina Solar signed a strategic cooperation agreement

equipment to lower the operational cost. Actively develop new

with Government of Changdao County in Shandong. Both parties will conduct all-round cooperation in terms

technology, new channels, new market and new service.

of island PV and energy storage application area with Trina Solar’s world-leading products and solutions, to• Proactively develop both on-grid and distributed solar energy project

achieve win-win development.

while expanding modules manufacture. Meanwhile, develop energy
storage and photovoltaic application technology . Construct the threepillars of corporate business.
Case2: APVIA Day: Global PV Leaders Dialogue• To cooperate with the EU Commission in the anti-dumping and antisubsidy investigations to get acceptable solution.
• Appeal the two sides to cooperate for a win-win settlement anddevelop green economy in an open and collaborative way.

Major challenge

11• International trade dispute

In May, 2013, the 7 th International Solar Industry and PV
Exhibition, organized by SNEC, opened in Shanghai. Jifan Gao,

• Finally, turn the crisis into opportunity and establish closer relationship

President and CEO of Trina Solar, joined the Global PV Leaderswith global partners. We commit to keep taking effective measures

Dialogue, and discussed the sustainable development of PV

to maintain our operation in a responsible way, providing global

industry with representatives from Europe, Asia and America.

customers including European ones with quality products, services

Mr. Gao appealed to promote the healthy development of PV

and solutions, and promoting the healthy and orderly development ofindustry through free trade, global cooperation and enterprise

the PV industry.

acquisition.

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Management and Development

Key PerformanceAwards

The following table gives the summary of key performance in terms of economic, environmental, and social indicators of Trina Solar in
2009-2013.

Date.January 2013

• "Poverty Alleviation Ambassador Award 2012 "awarded by China Poverty Alleviation Foundation.

February 2013

• "The world’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in China" nominated by Fast Company, which is the most influential
business magazine in the USA. Trina Solar was the only solar module manufacturer included in such list.

February 2013

• " Changzhou Technology Advanced Enterprise 2012 ” awarded by Changzhou Technological Innovation Promotion
Committee.

March 2013

• "SEMI China Industry Award 2013" awarded by SEMI.

May 2013• Passed the verification of ISO14064 Quantification and Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emission by British Standards
Institution (BSI).

June 2013• Obtained the first " Independent PV system certification " certificate issued by CQC.

Key CSR Performance Indicators

Key Performance• Solar module shipments (MW)

2009
399

2010
1057

2011
1512

2012
1590

2013
2580

• Net revenues (US$1000)

845,136

1,857,689

2,047,902

1,296,655

1,774,971• Gross profit (US$1000)

237,154584,361

332,642

57,243

218,194• Gross margin (%)

28.1%

31.5%

16.2%

4.4%

12.3%

August 2013

• " Safe Production Standardization Grade-2 Enterprise " awarded by Jiangsu Safe Production Supervision Bureau.

135,369

417,348

30,966(264,872)(38,079)

August 2013

• Ranking first in the rating of performance in global environmental and social responsibility among solar enterprisesorganized by the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC).

96,226

311,453(37,820)(266,555)(72,236)

October 2013

• " 2013 Solar Industry Award " awarded by Angel Business Communications, a famous press.

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320

242

239

174

October 2013

• "2013 Asia PV Award" awarded by Asia PV Industry Association.

November 2013

• Passed Environment Management System ISO14001 surveillance audit and OHSAS18001 re-certification audit by TUV
SUD Management Service GmbH.

November 2013

• Nominated as " PV TOP50-Top 10 Innovative Module Manufacturer 2013" by Global PV Internet and Modern PV
magazine.

Economy• Income (loss) from operations(US$1000)• Net income (loss) (US$1000)• Carbon emission per unit
Production (T/MW)• Electricity consumption per unit
Environment

Awards

Production (MWH/MW)• Water consumption per unit
Production (T/MW)• Wastewater discharge per unit
Production (T/MW)• Environmental investment (US$ 1000)

569

360

282

277

206

4,543

3,529

2,982

2,870

2,093

2,698

2,074

2,031

1,760

1,301

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12142

12925

8104

16722

Case: “2013 Solar Industry Award” of Trina Solar Awarded

In 2013, Trina Solar was awarded as Solar Industry Award 2013 depending on our• Number of employees

7,900

10,00015,00012,00013,900

Trinasmart solution in the PV System Integration application. This follows the successof Trina Solar President and CEO Jifan Gao in the Solar Award for Excellence (Individual)• Proportion of employees jointing in the
Labor Union (%)
Employee• Proportion of female employee (%)• Percentage of employees whose salary ishigher than the stipulated minimum (%)• Total Recordable Rate (TRR)• Work-related fatalities• Average training hours per employee

17.1%

55.0%

65.8%

67.3%

70.1%

——

——

37.4%

36.5%

34.9%

category in 2012.
The Solar Industry Award, is managed by the famous British publishing house Angel
Business Communications, which develops and releases the authoritative PV trademagazine in the industry.

100%

100%

100%

100%

100%

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1.56

0.79

0.56

0.39

0

0

0

0

0

——

——

30

33

25

“We are obviously very happy to have won this award, particularly as the winner
determined by the votes of our peers within the PV community. Following theindividual of our Chairman and CEO Jifan Gao awarded last year, this award is therecognition not only for the technological innovation and excellence of Trinasmart,
but also for the high esteem in which Trina Solar and its products and expertise areheld within the industry,” said Ben Hill, President of Trina Solar Europe.
Dr. Zhiqiang Feng, Vice President of Technology Development, accept the award on• Occupational Health & Safety investment(US$ 1000)
13

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2098

3939

4569

2615

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Care for Mother Earth
The environmental commitment means to utilize the energy
and resources in a more efficient way. We strive to use
energy and natural resources responsibly while maintaining
our high product quality. In 2013, the amount of electricity
consumption and water consumption per MW (megawatt)
module was decreased by 63.8% and 53.9% respectively incomparison with that of 2009. Although being proud of theresults achieved, we are fully aware that this is a long-term andarduous task. We will unswervingly advocate and implement
low- carbon development strategy and integrate greenmanufacturing concepts through all stages of our company's
operation. We are committed to sparing no efforts to create anenvironment-friendly and resource-conserving company.

■■ Green Sustainable Development■■ Solutions to Climate Change■■ Environment-Friendly Operation■■ Biological Diversity Management

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Green Sustainable Development

Case 1: Bo'ao Forum for Asia Held in Hainan, China

The sustainable development is an operational mode to grasp opportunities, balance economy, coordinate environment with society,

In April 2013, Bo'ao Forum for Asia was held in Hainan, China, with the theme

and bring long-term economic benefits to shareholders. As a worldwide enterprise committed to the development of green solar energy,of "Innovation and Cooperation for Common Development in Asia". The

Trina Solar has held the concept of sustainable development and devoted itself into energy conserving and environment protecting in

President and CEO of Trina Solar, Jifan Gao was invited to attend the forum

order to fulfill its mission of achieving mutual and sustainable development of the company itself, the community and the ecosystem.

and made a speech about overcapacity, international trade protectionism

Not only are we a clean solar energy manufacturer, but also an advocate for providing sustainable solutions to address the global climatechange and energy crisis. With the entire PV industry confronted with the multiple challenges, Trina Solar constantly called for both
domestic and international cooperation through various channels, in the hope of pushing forward the continuous development of the
PV industry worldwide and establishing a global collaboration. Since the second half of 2013, Trina Solar has returned to be profitable
and realized economic and social values of sustainable development for enterprises and society.

and enterprise bankruptcy and consolidation in China PV industry. Mr. Gao
actively communicated with representatives from peers, government officials
and media and called on both China and Europe to settle trade dispute
through negotiation, so as to promote the healthy development of domestic
PV industry.

Case 2: Ranking First in Solar Scorecard Sponsored

Case 5: Worlg Energy Congress in Daegu, Korea

by SVTC

Jifan Gao, President and CEO of Trina Solar, attended the 22nd WorldIn August, 2013, Trina Solar ranked first in the global

Energy Congress with the theme of "Safeguard the Energy Security

ranking for environmental and social performance in the

Tomorrow" . Mr. Gao made a speech on the topic of the prospect,

2013 Solar Scorecard, an award system established byadvantages and disadvantages of solar industry. Mr. Gao appealed

Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC). The award system

to all governments, enterprises and NGOs to jointly promote freerates global PV manufacturers based on extended

trade and fight against trade protectionism. Mr. Gao also called on

producer responsibility, emission transparency, worker

global governments and enterprises to invest in and explore newrights, health and safety, chemical reduction, as well as

energy and construct a green energy structure for a better planet.

supply chain and conflict materials etc.
SV TC's Solar Scorecard aims to improve PV
manufacturers' environmental and social practices
and promote improved environmental reporting inCase 4: Global Green Development

the industry. It enables commercial, government, andForum in Copenhagen, Denmark

residential buyers of PV modules to make informed
purchases and choose an environmentally and socially
responsible PV manufacturer.

The global green development forum was held in
Denmark from 21 st to 22 nd November 2013. It wasCase 3: Summer Davos World Economic Forum in Dalian, Chinaorganized by governments of Denmark, China, Kenya,
Korea, Mexico and Qatar, which mainly focused on theefficient utilization of energy, water, food and green
value chain.

Jifan Gao, President and CEO of Trina Solar, was invited to attend Summer Davos World
Economic Forum in September, 2013. The theme for this year's forum is "An Imperative Way toGo". Mr. Gao joined the discussion on "Asia New Energy Future". The discussion group came up

During the discussion on the topic of "The Energy

with the ideas of innovative ways for industry restructuring and consolidation. Mr. Gao called

Prospect in Latin America and Caribbean Area", Jifan Gao,on all stakeholders to support free trade, fair competition and open cooperation in green

President and CEO of Trina Solar, pointed out that theenergy industry so as to promote the sustainable development of green industry and resolve

energy demand in the area is rapidly growing. We canthe issue of energy shortage together.

effectively reduce the negative impact on environment
by replacing conventional power supply with clean,reliable and available green solar energy.
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Care for Mother Earth

Solutions to Climate Change

Enhancement of Energy Efficiency
A sustainable development requires not only the clean energy, but also higher energy efficiency. We are committed to enhancing energy
efficiency in order to reduce carbon dioxide emission and produce more cost-competitive products. In 2013, we continued to focus
on energy efficiency improvement by identifying and implementing energy-saving projects and optimizing energy use. The electricity

Energy is the driving force of world economic development and the material basis of mankind's survival. While enjoying the benefits ofconsumption per MW module production declined by 63.8% compared with that of 2009.

economic growth and technological progress, humans are also facing a series of problems, such as environment pollution and climate
warming caused by energy shortage and over-consumption.

569

Electricity consumption per MW module production（MWH/MW）

From the World Climate Conference in Copenhagen to the World Climate Conference in Warsaw, low-carbon and sustainable
development has been the common objective of enterprises all over the world. As a leading PV enterprise, we keep pondering how to360

use our energy advantage and industrial influence to push the development of renewable energy and incorporate low-carbon concept
282

into the entire industry chain for the low-carbon development of the whole society. We have invested plenty of resources and efforts tosolve the problem of climate warming by optimizing energy utilization, producing clean energy and conducting green office work.

277

206

Carbon Emission Reduction
Energies and resources like electricity, natural gas and diesel are consumed during the manufacture of PV products. Trina Solar considers
that it is the enterprise’s responsibilities to make the carbon emission transparent to the public, and establish a GHG Inventory with

2009

2011

2010

2012

2013

relativity, integrity, accuracy and consistency in the green product production.
Trina Solar has made consecutive efforts in establishing a systematic methodology to quantify, report and disclose GHG emissions, which

Case 1 : PCW Free Cooling Project in Yancheng Plant

helps the company achieve pollution reduction target and also foster employees’ awareness of using natural resources in more efficientways. With our efforts, the CO2 emission per MW module production in 2013 reduced by 45.6% compared with that in 2010.

The vacuum pumps for laminating machine in module workshop are cooled by

Carbon emission per MW module production (T/MW)

PCW (Process Cooling Water) which is produced by both cooling tower water and320

chilled water (produced by running of refrigerant compressor). Free cooling is such242

a design that PCW is produced by only cooling tower water through use of heat239

exchangers without use of chilled water. The design can cut down significantly
174

refrigeration energy by reducing running time or frequency of chillers. In
Yancheng site, when the temperature drops to 15 oC or below, the cooling towerwater will be able to provide sufficient cooling energy to produce PCW without
use of chillers. Assume the free cooling system runs for the average period of 4

2010

2011

2012

2013

months a year, the design leads to an electricity saving of 245 MWH/year, which isequivalent to 201 tons carbon emission reduction.

Case: Carbon Footprint Verification for France Market
Case 2: Energy Conservation Project in Module Workshop, Northeast Campus
In 2013, Trina Solar has taken a lead in conducting carbon footprint verificationaccording to French standard. Trina Solar France invited a third independent
French PV Engineering company-Solstyce to carry out an assessment of thelifecycle greenhouse gas emission for PV module, from material exploration,
production, transportation to assembling. These results show that the productcarbon footprint is much lower than the average footprint for the modules which
are made in non-European region.

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Air-condition system normally starts to provide warm air since the second
half of November each year in Changzhou. Due to different manufacturing
processes, temperature varies significantly in the different zones in the module
workshop. Based on investigation and experiment, Facility team completed
an adjustment on the ratio between fresh-air and returned-air supply for the
HVAC (HVAC: Heat, Ventilation and Air Condition) system. After the adjustment,

Ben Hill, President of Trina Solar Europe explains: “This independent evaluation

the workshop forms an internal air circulation inside the workshop. The warm

will enable our customers to participate competitively in French tenders for

air in the laminating process (warm zone) flows to the sorting/solderingsolar projects above 100 kW. And it essentially shows how deeply Trina Solar isprocess (cold zone). The improvement project lead to save 130,000 Nm 3 percommitted to its environmental responsibilities”.

year of natural gas consumption and reduces 284 tons of carbon emission.

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Case 3 : Energy Reuse Project in West Campus

Care for Mother Earth

Case 2: Supporting Zero-carbon Transportation in Europe

Clean-room environment, which has requirements of temperature and humidity

Public transportation has a great standard in Switzerland and isspecifications in two cell workshops (Cell #1 and Cell #2) in west campus, was originallywidely used amongst the population. The mainly hydro-powered

maintained by Air-cooled Heat Pumps. Air-cooled Heat Pumps has low energy efficiency
ratio. By making use of water-source heat technology, facility implemented the energy
reuse project from cooling water of multi-crystalline workshop for air-conditioningof Cell #1 and Cell #2 workshops during winter season. The project not only raises
reliability to provide the required temperature and humidity for Cell #1 and Cell #2, butalso saves electricity consumption by switching off Air-cooled Heat Pump in Cell #1 andCell #2. Meanwhile, the project also resulted in electricity saving by reducing running

Swiss trains offer a great alternative to private vehicles and areconvenient for travel. Trina Solar in Europe and in Switzerland inparticular is actively promoting public transportation as a meanof saving CO 2 emissions. The Management in Europe as well as
Management visiting from China is encouraged to use the almost
carbon emission free transportation system.

time of both cooling water pumps and cooling tower in Cooling Water Station #2. The
project results in 789,000 KWH of electricity saving per year, which is equivalent to 650
tons of carbon emission reduction.

Green Office WorkA quarter of our time each week is spent in the office. We believe that green office not only means minimizing the environmental impact
of office activities, but also refers to creating an environment beneficial to the physical and mental health of employees so that they feel
physical comfort and spiritual pleasure.
In order to incorporate the green office theme into every detail of the work, we gradually phased out paper documents like forms,
implemented electronic office work, and established the video conference system, to minimize the impact of office activities on theenvironment.

Case 1: Video Conference System

With the continuous expansion of our business, the communication
demand between Trina Solar’s offices around the world is increasing.
In order to improve work efficiency and reduce carbon dioxide
emissions generated during a business trip, Trina Solar establisheda high-definition video conferencing system consisting of 12 sets ofvideo conferencing equipment terminals, 1 MCU host computer and
1 recording host. This HD video conferencing system can be appliedin worldwide work report meetings, quarterly summary meetings,
year-end summary meetings and employ training sessions, averagely
reducing the business trip by 150,000 kilometers per year.
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Care for Mother Earth

Producing Clean Energy

Environment-Friendly Operation

Trina Solar takes it an urgent task to address the issue of climate warming. Compared with traditional fossil-fuel energy, solar energy cansignificantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions and pollution. So it is the largest challenge for us to produce more clean energy which can
reduce carbon dioxide emissions efficiently and significantly. We are devoted to exploring and utilizing innovative technologies to improve
product efficiency, and to facilitate reduction of carbon dioxide emissions and promote change in the pattern of human energy based on theuse of low-carbon green energy, so that the issues of economic development, environmental protection and energy security may be solved
systematically and people can use cleaner energy!

We believe that the most precious resource is the natural environment where human survive. Trina Solar will spare no effort to fulfill
our commitment to all stakeholders, and always concern for the sustainable development of humans and the mother earth. As an
advocate and practitioner of environmental protection, Trina Solar is always practicing environmental sustainability within the life cycleof our products, from product development, raw material procurement and manufacturing, to resource & energy utilization and waste
management.

Case: Completion of the First Residential Roof-top PV Power Generation Village in China

In Trina Solar, we see clean production and environmental care as the lifeline of the Company. We implement the multi-aspect green
operation through sustainable use of natural resources, reasonable treatment of gas/wastewater, recycling of waste and conducting ofenvironmental protection activities.

Qinghu County, Lianyungang, is one of the key poverty alleviation counties

Sustainable Use of Water Resourcein Shilianghe poverty area and the key assisting county of Jiangsu Economic

Water is the source of life, the blood of industry, the necessary resource to maintain mankind development and the basis of humanand Information Commission. After multiple field investigation, Jiangsu

survival. In 2013, we continue to take a variety of effective water conservation measures, and strive to continuously reduce water

Economic and Information Commission decides to implement residential

consumption of unit module by the use of sustainable water resources. The water consumption per MW module in 2013 was decreasedroof-top project in Qingnan Community Qinghu Village, where has goodby 53.9% compared to that in 2009 and by 27.1% compared to 2012. The wastewater discharge per MW module in 2013 was decreased

basic conditions and ancillary facilities. Trina Solar has the authority of theby 51.8% compared to that in 2009, and by 26.1% compared to 2012.Such results are inseparable from our sustainable use of water

installation of the 381.22 kilowatt PV project, and installs 1556 polysilicon
modules on the roof top of 129 households. The project was connected to

4,543

Water consumption per MW module production（T/MW）

grid on 25th December, 2013, which was the first residential roof-top village
in China. Eighty percent of the electricity produced by the modules will be
consumed by the residents and the rest twenty percent will be purchased

3,529

by the National Grid. The average generating capacity is 393,300KWH/year,

2,982

which contributes to reducing 324 tons of carbon emission per year.

2009

2011

2010

2,870

2012

2,093

2013

Enhancing Utilization Rate of Water Resource
With the business development, our total water consumption is increasing. However, as we continue to develop and implement water
conservation solutions, our utilization of water resources is improving as well.

Case: DI Water Replaced by Tap Water
De-ionized (DI) water was used to in the wafer cleaning bath in cleaning process. DI water
is produced by tap water which is pumped and passed through membranes, such as microfiltration, reverse osmosis membrane, to filter out and retain suspended solids, colloidal
particles and bacteria etc on the membrane surface. In this process, about 30~40% of tap
water will be rejected passing through by the membranes.
After many trial experiments by process team, we successfully implemented to use tap
water to replace DI water in the wafer cleaning process. The continuous improvement
project is able to save 130,000 tons/year of water consumption, leading to 455,000 RMB/
year of water bill reduction.
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Reuse and Recycle of Water

Air Emissions

We have always been committed to water reuse and recycle programs. We successfully implemented the projects for collection andTrina Solar has also built a range of scrubbers, such as acidic/caustic scrubbers and organic scrubbers in order to reduce thereuse of RO (reverse osmosis) rejected water, HVAC condensate water, and even preliminarily-treated wastewater. The water is usedconcentration of pollutants emitted into the atmosphere and avoid or decrease the hazards of atmospheric pollution. In accordance

for washing, heating, cooling, cleaning and gardening , aiming to decrease waste discharge and reduce fresh water consumption, andwith relevant laws and regulations, every year we employ a qualified third party to conduct monitoring on the acidic/caustic scrubbers

achieving the win-win objective of economic development and environmental protection.

and organic scrubbers based on the secondary standards of GB16297-1996 Integrated Emission Standards of Air Pollutants. The emission
concentration and rate of monitored indicators are far below the emission standards.

Case1: Water Recycle Project in WCM Workshop

Waste Management
Improper management of waste will not only cause land contamination and soil balance destruction, but also pollute the water and air.
Trina Solar manages waste as a resource, adhering to the 3R (reduce, reuse, recycle) principles to collect and store waste by class. In order

Our manufacturing process uses a lot of ultrapure water in the WCM

to gradually reduce the waste discharge per unit of product, we have taken the following measures:workshop. About 30% of tap water is rejected by the Reverse Osmosis
membrane, called ROR water in ultrapure water producing process.

•To consider the ways of reducing waste generation during the product design phase.

•

To maximize the use of recyclable materials for packaging, reduce the landfill disposal and increase the recycling rate ofwastes.

•To establish a waste management procedure, collect the hazardous waste by category according to the national list ofhazardous waste and hazardous characteristics, implement the hazardous waste transfer application and manifest
form system in accordance with national laws and regulations, and entrust a qualified vendor to perform the harmlessdisposal;•

To raise the employees’ awareness of minimizing waste generation and discard it by class through training;•

To join in PV CYCLE and deal with scrapped PV modules in an environment-friendly way.

Facility team setup a water reused project to collect ROR water fromultrapure water plant and use ROR water for cleaning and cooling
purpose for the processes such as grinding, wafer slicing etc in thewafer workshop. The project saves 432,000 tons of water every year,
which is equivalent to about RMB 1.5 million per year of water bill
reduction.

Case2: Wastewater Reuse Project

Trina Solar worked together with Wuxi Depple Water Investment
to build a new water recycling plant. The plant was built using
advanced dual-membrane (ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis)
technology to treat industrial wastewater created during the
Resource wastes recycled per MW module production（KG/MW）

manufacturing process. The treated water was sent back to Trina
Solar as supplementary raw water supply. In 2013, about 5000 m3/
1150

day wastewater was sent to Wuxi Depple water recycling plant.

1154

About 3500 m3/day treated effluent water gets recycled.
This project not only helps to reduce water consumption, but also

960

2011

helps explore a new way for sustainability and environmental
protection.

2012

696

548

2013

542
474

Wastewater Discharge
The wastewater from the manufacturing process which can’t be reused or recycled will be adequately treated by de-fluorination,290

neutralization and biological treatment processes prior to being discharged into the municipal sewer. Local environmental authorities

203

monitored the water quality of the treated effluent, which shows that the water quality meets the national stipulated limits.
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Case: Focus on Manufacturer’s Extended Responsibility and Ensure the Compliant Disposal of PV ProductsElectronic waste management is a global issue. Trina Solar strictly follows the national

Biological Diversity Management
How to balance the development between enterprise and ecology has been an urgent issue of many enterprises. Trina Solar always

WEEE laws of each country and actively promotes the proper reuse and recycle ofconsider the influence on ecology and biodiversity and conduct biodiversity evaluation when developing a new project or expanding theelectronic wastes.

current project. We preserve part of the land in our plant to be home of native plants and animals, and promote biodiversity protection

PV modules fall under the scope of the WEEE Directive from 2012, while Trina Solarthrough propaganda and environmental activities.

joined in PV CYCLE early in 2010. Since its foundation in 2007, PV CYCLE has set up
an extensive service network consisting of hundreds of collection points, waste

Case: Biodiversity Protection of Solar Farm in Dorset

transportation companies and professional recycling facilities. The service network aims
to provide PV products reuse and recycling settlement solutions, and apply the recycledmaterial into new production. With Axel Steuer, Head of Operations Trina Solar Europe,in the Board of the PV CYCLE association, a close collaboration is taking place between
PV Cycle and Trina Solar. The company ensures that its modules receive proper end-oflife treatment compliant with WEEE specific requirements.
Notice: WEEE Directive stipulates that all the electrical and electronic wastes in EU

Axel Steuer,
Operation Directorof Trina Solar Europe,
member of the Boardof the PV CYCLE
association

countries should receive appropriate treatment through recycling and reusing.

In December 2013, Trina Solar began the construction of theHomeland Solar Farm with 52,000 solar panels. This farm,
located 2 hours south of London in Dorset will be equippedwith 10 MW solar system and will produce enough clean andsustainable solar electricity to power 4,300 homes annually.
With a community benefit fund, the project will additionallyprovide revenues for the local Ver wood Parish Council
community projects throughout the 25 year lifetime of farm.
To protect local biodiversity, Trina Solar additionally installed
bird houses and bat boxes near the site, and planted a mix of

Search the closest
collection point
on www.pvcycle.
org.

Demolition crews
will send the PV
modules to theclosest collection
point.

local wildflower seeds to promote an on-going managementof the vegetation mix. The panels will be installed at a
The modules
will be put inthe container incollection point.

sufficient height to allow for sheep grazing, so the farm canmaintain its primary agricultural purpose throughout power
generation operations.

When the container is fullof modules, it will be sent
to recycling plant and theempty vessel will be sent
back to the collection
point.

Less than
40 pieces ofmodules:PV CYCLE SYSTEM

More than
40 pieces ofmodules:

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Contact PV CYCLE
through telephone ore-mail to order a spotcollection.

PV CYCLE will arrange atruck to directly send thescrapped PV modules
from the construction
site to recycling plant.

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Focus on
Supply Chain
Mutual respect and win-win cooperation is the basic principleof Trina Solar in maintaining all interest relationships. As an
industry leader accustomed to responsing to challenges withinitiative changing, Trina Solar has been providing society
with clean and green solar photovoltaic products constantlyin the past 15 years. However, it must be pointed out thateven our slightest progress relies on cooperation and supportof the whole supply chain. For this reason, in the meantime
of positively performing our own social responsibilities, Trina
Solar also constantly concerns social responsibilities of global
suppliers as well as cooperative partners, shoulders social
responsibilities and promotes sustainable development ofphotovoltaic industry chain jointly with the global cooperative
partners.

■■ Supplier Management■■ Strategic Partners

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Focus on supply chain

CSR Audit for Suppliers

Supplier Management

We believe that periodic auditing is an effective way of promoting suppliers’ self-management. We conduct periodic on-site auditing of
key suppliers in ways of documentation auditing, on-site inspection and employee interview etc. from the following aspects. Problems

To exert influence on suppliers of high risk is an effective way to improve supplier’s CSR performance. Every year Trina Solar assesses
suppliers’ risk, identify suppliers’ risk level and rates suppliers associated with supplied products and services, sustainable development
goal of Trina Solar, important environmental factors as well as major risk as key relevant parties to be exerted influence.
Trina Solar has established Supplier CSR Management Procedure, constantly strengthened communication and cooperation withwhich have been found during auditing are required to be rectified by the supplier in a certain time limit.
Principles for Auditing Suppliers•

Business ethics: Following the business ethics of fairness and honesty.

•

Work place: Providing employees with a healthy and safe work place; reduce accident, damage as well as
occupational health hazards.

•

Protecting environment: Adopting environmentally responsible manufacturing processes.

•

Free association and collective bargaining: Respecting for workers’ rights of joining, organizing or not joining
the labor union.

•

Prohibiting child labor:Abiding by minimum age regulation in applicable laws and regulations;•

Prohibiting forced labor and abuse of labor: It is prohibited to physically punish labor, use forced labor of any kind,including prison labor, indentured labor, bonded labor, military labor or slave labor;•

Eliminating discrimination: Maintaining a workplace without discrimination, or physical or verbal harassment.

suppliers through conducting CSR investigation as well as on-site auditing on newly-introduced key suppliers who are also requested tosign Supplier CSR Commitment. We are committed to establish a stable, economic and reliable supply chain.
CSR Investigations on Key SuppliersHigh Level Business Ethics

Good social responsibility performance

We e x p e c t t h a t r e q u i r e m e n t s o fBusiness ethics values are rated as an

is one of the impor tant criteria forworker criteria, environmental

important criterion for selecting ands e l e c t i n g s u p p l i e r s f o r u s . Tr i n a

protection, health and safety, businesscooperating with suppliers sustainably

Solar conduc ts comprehensive CSR

ethics will be incorporated in theby Trina Solar. While signing Integrity

investigations on all newly--introduced

management system of our suppliers.

Commitment step by step withkey suppliers. The investigations

In order to ensure that our supplierse x i s t i n g s u p p l i e r s, Tr i n a S o l a r a l s ocover investigating per formance ofadhere to the same principles andrates whether they have no credit

protecting workers’ rights, reducing

va l u e s t h at we d o, e ve r y n e w l y- -record, whether they have established

impact on environment, guaranteeing

introduced key supplier is required

relevant systems conforming withworkers’ safety, health and welfare, andto sign Supplier CSR Commitment

effective implementation of local laborof good faith of management as wellin which integrity management,laws and regulations, whether they

as observing laws and regulations etc.

providing safe and healthy working

have established related mechanism

Suppliers who failed to achieve accessconditions for workers, using fairto promote and follow up businesscriteria in CSR will not be our eligible

hiring methods and giving what they

ethics system effectively as important

suppliers.

deserved dignity and respect to theassessment criteria for selecting andworkers is committed.

introducing suppliers so as to lead

Key Supplier CSR Commitment

or promote suppliers which having
business connections with us comply
with business ethics in a high level.

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Strategic Partners

Case 3：Cooperation with Abakus Solar

Trina Solar not only focuses on our own green development, but also communicates its sustainable development vision and goals withIn Feb. 2013, Trina Solar established cooperative partnership with photovoltaic system

global partners. Brainstorming together with the global partners, we are committed to contributing inspirations and innovative solutions

supplier, Abakus Solar, and provided a total of 20 megawatts of solar power modules forfor photovoltaic industry based on the actual situation.

the four projects in Germany and UK. Among these four projects, the solar power station
located in Westphalia state, north Rhine, Germany will be commenced initially, theother three large power stations which across southern England, including one in isle ofCase 1: Annual Supplier Conference

Wight, UK will be completed and put into use by the end of March, 2013.
Trina Solar has supplied more than 8600 pieces of multi-crystalline silicon solar modules
for a 2 megawatt pilot power station of a landfill located in Rietberg, Westphalia state,

The 2013 annual supplier conference of Trina solar was held

Germany. The solar power station, which was completed at the end of 2012 as perin December, in Changzhou. Nearly 200 strategic partners andschedule, is able to provide power for approximate 570 families and reduce 1200 tons ofsupplier representatives from all over the world were invited

carbon emissions every year. During this project, Abakus Solar has used mobile testing

to a t te n d to d i s c u s s h ow to f u r t h e r p ro m o te s u s t a i n a b l edevelopment of global solar industry through cooperation. Mr.
Gao Jifan, chairman & CEO of Trina solar, made a keynote speechon the seminar, hoping that Trina Solar and the suppliers form alaboratory to test installed solar energy modules to ensure their correct installationand normal operation for the first time. Our products performed well and exceeded
expected level in the site test.

strategic cooperative relationship to jointly response to all kinds“Trina Solar and Abakus have a good start of cooperation. We expect for more successfulof shocks and impacts brought by market changes, positively seek

cooperation in the three solar power stations in Britain,” said Thomas Sandner, CEOspace and possible ways for cost reduction, jointly negotiate andof Abakus Solar, “We are very cautious in selecting suppliers. Based on a responsible

deal with mutual problems, achieve a situation of hand in hand

attitude to customers, we require suppliers being perfect in product quality, supply

development, continuous enhancement, mutual benefit and winwin results with an attitude of open cooperation.

Thomas Sandner，
Abakus Solar CEO

capability and service support.”

Case2: Merge and Acquisition: Joint Venture with Yabang GroupIn November 2013, Trina Solar signed an agreement with Yabang
Group to jointly invest USD 45 million to incorporate a joint venturecompany in Wujin High-tech Area in Changzhou. The new company
will purchase manufacturing facilities and equipment of Changzhou
Nesl Solartech, a subsidy of Yabang Group, and expand the annual
module production capacity to 500 MW in 2014.
The joint venture company will fully take advantages of Trina Solarin aspects such as worldwide technology innovation, environmental
standards, quality control, operation management etc. Under thepremise of not increasing overall market capacity, it will create amodel of success for integration of photovoltaic industry in China
and future development through acquiring and cooperating as well
as utilizing existing capacity more efficiently.

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04

Care for
Employees
Employees are essential for the success of Trina Solar. We know
the enterprise value is based on each employee's recognitionand efforts and the realization of the mission and vision relies
on each employee's infinite wisdom and tireless pursuit. To
this end, we are committed to creating a safe and healthy
working environment for employees and providing them witha competitive compensation and benefits system as well as
professional training and career development opportunities,
so that Trina Solar becomes a work stage which is excellent,
worthy to work for, and allows each employee to display theirskills.

■■ Protection of Employees’ Rights■■ Recognition of Employees’ Contribution■■ Listen to Employees■■ Creation of Cultural Environment■■ Care for Employees’ Physical and Mental Health■■ Employees' Safety■■ Work-life Balance35

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Care for Employees

Protection of Employees’ Rights

Recognition of Employees’ Contribution

Trina Solar strictly adheres to the Labor Law and the Labor Contract Law of the People's Republic of China, and is determined to

We focus on attracting and retaining outstanding talents through trainings, competitive salaries and efficient incentive mechanism, andprotect each employee's legal rights according to such laws.

try our best to enable every employee fully display his talents.
•

Develop the Performance Management System , set employee performance target and carry out the evaluation once

Comply with local laws
We resolutely eliminate forcedlabor in the produc tion orservice provision process.

every six months. The bonus, salary increases and promotion will be directly linked to the performance evaluation
results.

in the region where
our factory or office islocated. No child laboris allowed. Men and•Develop the Employee Reward Management System to choose excellent employees and teams for Reward of Excellence
to inspire individuals and teams with superior performance in work.

women enjoy equal pay
for equal work.

•

Set up a talent bank and apply for the talent fund and creative fund for the employees who have obtained a Masterand/or Doctorate.

•

Put new position demands onto the company website and allow employees to have the chance to apply for a newposition, so as to enhance their passion for work and comprehensive capacity.

Adhere to the open, fair and equal

Develop Measures for Employees

recruitment policy to promote good

Pa i d Va c a t i o n ; p a i d e n d ow m e n t ,re l at i o n s b e t we e n e m p l oye r a n dwork injury, unemployment, medical,

e m p l oye e. Tr i n a S o l a r w i l l n e ve r

maternity insurances and other social

interfere with employees’ freedom of

insurances as well as housing fundbelief or discriminate any employee

for all employees; provide additionalin terms of nationality, ethnicity,

benefits such as birthday cakereligion, gender, age, disability or

vouchers, cash gifts on health day

m a r i t a l s t a t u s. D u r i n g 2 0 1 3 , n oor for wedding, traditional festival

discrimination incidents related toallowance, accident insurance andTrina Solar attaches importance to employees’ communication and involvement, and encourage them to join in the Labor Union. We

gender and health status happened.

medical hospitalization subsidies.

have created a variety of communication channels such as communication meetings, Bulletin Board System (BBS) Forum, HR hot lines,•

Recognize each employee’s contribution. Hold a farewell ceremony for each retiree and distribute retirement certificate
and souvenir.

Listen to Employees
and reasonable suggestion box in the Company, in order to promote the internal and external communication culture construction via
multi-channel and multi-level communication ways and allow employees fully exercise their democratic right and participate in thecompany management.
Quarterly Communication

Monthly Round

Quarterly Communication

Meeting

Table Meeting

Meeting for New Employees

Our company organizes quarterly

The round-table meeting is held

We have setup a quar ter lyinternal communicationm o n t h l y. Th e re p re s e n t a t i ve s

communication meeting formeeting. The information, suchfrom BUs and depar tments are

the new employees who are inas company's per formance ininvited to attend the meeting. The

the probationar y per iod. The

language training courses, healththe quarter, plan and targets forsenior management members willclubs, public transport and medical

the coming quarter and future

insurance benefits plan. With thed e ve l o p m e n t s t r a te g y e tc. i sfull-range welfare guarantee, ourshared with the employees in the

Tr i n a S o l a r i n E u r o p e s e t s u p a
flexible self-benefit plan. Employees
are free to choose their favorite
welfare programs including

employees can dedicate themselves
to work and enjoy life.

meeting.

convey the company's impor tantdevelopment, goal achievement
and future plan. The employees
also feedback their concerns andproblems encountered during their
daily work. In this way, a platform formeeting discusses and resolves
the problems and issues thatnew employees encountered.
The meeting will help the new
e m p l oye e s a d a p t to t h e n e w
environment quickly.

interactive communication between
management and employees is builtup.

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Care for Employees

Currently, there are about 80 courses available at our E-learning platform, including 20 self-developed ones. We also implement an

Creation of Cultural Environment

incentive policy in terms of development and preparation of electronic courses, in order to encourage employees to convert theirexpertise into quick courseware and micro-course. This not only reduces our courseware development cost, but also effectively
accumulates the company’s unique precious knowledge.

Since employees are the cornerstones of enterprise development, Trina Solar always attaches great importance to personnel training
and development, and promotes employees to grow with the Company. Trina Solar takes training education and culture construction as
an important part in the management system, providing a strong training support system for employees and offer them with personal
development programs tailored to individual business development and position needs so that they can learn knowledge and continue
to grow in the process of training, daily work and communication & cooperation, thereby improving the overall quality of the workforce,and add endless impetus for the sustainable development of enterprises.

Library
To build a better learning platform to support employees’ development, Trina Solar sets up 10 well-equipped special training rooms.
Besides, we also cooperates with Changzhou Library to jointly open a library with a collection of over 20,000 books. This library uses thesame management and system as those for Changzhou Library, and readers can borrow books from and return the same to either of thelibraries as they are linked with each other. There is also a dedicated electronic reading area for employees to read electronic journals
and e-books, which greatly enriched the spiritual life of employees.

Training Center
We have set up a dedicated training center for employee training and development, and established a more mature training system,T h e b i m o n t h l y j o u r n a l Tr i n a

including the institutional system, curriculum system, lectures system and resource system, so that every employee can have two routes,

Win, focuses on the company's

i.e. technical route or management route to select after he is competent at the corresponding position. Each step of their development

development and the employees'

is provided with appropriate training courses and development links, to support them for personal upgrading and progress.
The total training provided by the company was up to 325,540 hours in 2013, and the time per capita was more than 25 hours. The
training course includes multiple subjects, like EHS/CSR, business ethics, employee mental health, quality and skill improvement.
Average Training Hours per Person（H）
30

6%

25
39%
53%

is based on promotion of thecompany's major events, with theintention to allow each employee

life, ser ving as an information

keeping abreast of eventsexchange platform for employeeswith respec t to the company's

based on its relaxing and lively
tone, as well as the rich content.

Internal
promotion

Categlories of Training Courses
2%

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The monthly magazine Highlights

major brands, innovation, social
responsibility, communication with
global stakeholders.

EHS

In the plant, the bulletin boards

Quality and Skill Promotion

distributed at various traffic arteries,

Professional Ability

exquisite posters seen everywhere,

New Employee Training

and a variety of small cards
containing management knowledge
display the information about

2011

2012

2013

training, environmental protection
activities andmanagement

concepts in different vivid forms.

Case: High-skilled Personnel Training in Wafer Workshop

Care for Employees’ Physical and
Mental Health

The work in the wafer workshop requires outstanding
skills. In order to improve the professional skills of
personnel on front-line positions, Trina Solar cooperates
with universities in Changzhou , to carry out the study

Employees’ physical and mental health is an important guarantee to increase productivity. To this end, we are continuously concernedof theor y and skills training for slicing and related

about employees’ health, including their occupational health as well as their (including retirees’) personal health and mental health.

t e c h n i q u e. Ac c o rd i n g t o t h e N a t i o n a l Vo c a t i o n a l

We set up a clinic and a pregnant women rest room; implemented employee assistance program; conducted occupational hazard

Qualifications identification requirements, the trainees

monitoring; and provided occupational health examination and women healthy for employees every year, in order to try our best to

are subject to relevant assessment, and those who

create a healthy, safe and comfortable working environment for employees so that they can enjoy better life.

passed the assessment will be issued with a National
Vocational Qualification Certificate for crystal component

Case : Free Medical Services Activities

manufacturing workers, perfecting their growth process.
In August 2013, EHS Department invited experts from Changzhou

E-learning System

Ding Wu Rehabilitation Hospital to provide free medical services
for Trina’s employees, including on-site visits, health consultation,

As a supplementary training tool, E-learning system (E-learning) successfully resolves the problems of the cost, time conflicts and site

weight measurement, temperature measurement, blood pressure

constraints depending on its own advantages, and provides more convenient learning and personal development resources for themeasurement, blood sugar measurement and many other clinic services

global employees, helping them expand their knowledge and ability and improve the business performance and capability development,for popularizing medical knowledge and health knowledge to promoteso that they can better respond to new career challenges. We deployed our own E-learning system to provide an online interactive

healthy lifestyles.

training platform for employees. Based on the principles of adult learning, the time of each course is set about 30 minutes, so that theemployees can learn a useful course within a short time.
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Care for Employees

Mental Health Care

Employees’ Safety

In order to better alleviate employees’ pressure from work and ensure they can be engaged in production healthily and efficiently, we
have established the Employee Assistance Program (Employee Assistance Program, EAP). The EAP is a set of long-term assistance andwelfare program for employees. It is used to help employees and their family members to solve a variety of psychological and behavioral
problems and eliminate all the factors that may affect employees’ performance through professionals’ diagnosis and analysis on theorganization environment as well as provision of professional guidance, training and consulting to the employees and their family
members, thus improving the employees’ job performance.

As stated in EHS policy, Trina Solar is committed to protecting employees’ health and safety and treats safety as one of our top
priorities when conducting business. We believe that the establishment and implementation of a good occupational health and safety
management system is an important way to care for our employees and their family members, a correct business theory to protect ouremployees, suppliers and communities where we reside and an essential path to contribute to society.

Currently, Trina Solar has organized an EAP counsellor team with certain strength and also invited experts periodically to give guidancein terms of stress management, occupational mental health, and healthy lifestyles to help employees ease the work pressure, eliminate
psychological distress and improve work emotions.

1.56

Total recorable rate（TRR）

Note

Care for Occupational Health

Total R ecordable R ate ( TRR ) is calculated by

We have strengthened the supervision of occupational health in many ways, and provide health care for the employees at the positions
with occupational hazards in order to prevent occupational diseases. In addition, we also ensure there is a certain amount of security

0.39

Trina Solar conducts health examinations for employees who could be exposed to occupational health hazards, andadjust the work positions for employees exhibiting occupational illness symptoms to prevent occupational diseases;•

Based on the local occupational health protection laws and regulations, Trina Solar regularly carries out industrial

restricted work injuries (RWs) for employees for thereporting period by 106 and then dividing the value
by the total working hours in that period (H).

We have established an internal clinic to provide the employees with medical and health counseling services;2010•(D Os), lost ti me i nj ur i es (LTIs ), fat al it ies (Fs ),0.56

funding per year for occupational health protection. No work-related occupational disease occurs is one of our long-term objectives:•

multiplying the sum of dangerous occurrences

0.79

2011

2012

2013

Our accident rate has declined for four consecutive years. In 2013, the accident rate reduced by 29% compared with that in 2012. Thisis right the result of our on-going improvement of EHS management system and pursuit of an accident-free workplace.

Case: Creation of Grade II Safety Standardization Enterprisehygiene monitoring at workplaces and notifies employees on how to minimize the risks.
To further enhance safety management standard, Trina Solar started to implement "Safety•

Trina solar sets up warning signs in the workplace to inform employees of the occupational hazards and protective

Standardization Enterprise" based on the requirements of National Safety Standardization

measures during their work, and also increase employee awareness of self-protection.

Enterprise Standards in March 2013. There are 13 elements for the standard, including
safety objective, safety organization, safety input, legal compliance, safety training,
maintenance regime, operation safety, safety inspection, management of significant safety

Case: Medicare Green Channel

hazards, occupational health management, emergency response, accident investigationand safety performance review. Based on the standard, we carried out self - assessment,
prepared documentation and made corrective actions in order to establish and implement

Trina Solar pays the industrial injury insurance of all factory workers. To ensure employees get timely medical
treatment, Trina Solar sets up Medicare Green-card Scheme with three hospitals in Changzhou for our
employees. Employees will be able to receive immediate medical attention after showing Trina Solar Medicare
Green Card in the three hospitals. Trina Solar will pay medical expenses afterwards to make sure the employees
receive timely treatment.

Safety Standardization Enterprise.
An external independent auditor audited our safety management system. After detailed
assessment and review of our system, the auditors concluded that Trina Solar had
established a sound safety organization, setup mature safety rules and regulations andmaintained a good safety operation records. Trina Solar was successfully conferred withthe "Safety Standardization Enterprise - Grade II" based on National Safety Standardization
Enterprise Standards in August 2013.

Case: Deliver Complimentary Drinks in Summer Season

Employees Workplace Safety
Many employees still insisted on their posts in spite of unusual high temperature in the summer. On August

Trina Solar is committed to providing a safe workplace for all employees. Our goal is to continue to reduce occupational injuries in the14, 2013, representatives from Labor Union and EHS Department delivered complementary drinks for those

workplace and make efforts to promote the safety culture construction so that our health safety performance is continuously improved.

employees, showing management's care and gratitude to those employee.

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Care for Employees

Trina Solar proactively conducts risk assessments in relation to the safety and health risks posed to any person who may be affected

Potential Risk Types in 2013by his undertaking in our workplace. A procedure has been established and implemented to systematically identify the hazards and1%

assess the risks related to manufacturing activities, products and services. Risk control strategies have been implemented, focusing
on elimination/replacement, engineering measures, administrative measures and personal protective equipment controls. Trina Solar

3%

7%

Environment Risks
Health Risks

maintains an active emergency response plan. The plan is to ensure, to the best of our abilities, that the site facilities are maintained and

Safety Risks

operated in a safe way.

Other Risks
89%

Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment
We set up the Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment Procedure to identify the hazard and assess the risks related to manufacturing
activities, products and services. Hazard identification is the recognition process of sources or situations that can cause harm to people(accident or illness). Risk assessment is the process of estimating the risk levels for the hazards and their acceptability. Based on risk level

Case: Near Miss Reported on Equipment Maintenance Post

determined, risks are categorized as major risk, medium risk and minor risk. The risk acceptability and recommended actions are alsosuggested as depicted in the Table.
A near miss was reported that the power tester operator should lean
Risk Category• Minor Risk

Acceptability of Risk
• Acceptable• Medium Risk

• Tolerable

into the cabinet to plug the terminal blocks, scan the bar code and fill

Recommended Actions

lot traveler. The process had a risk of being clamped by the internal• Maintain existing management and control measures, and strengthen

180-turning platform and employees may easily get injured. Aftermeasures according to actual situation.

receiving the report, an equipment engineer change the internal• Review existing procedures and control measures to prevent accidents.

turning platform into external turning platform and add a protective• Analyze to determine whether to take further measures in

guard, which fundamentally removed the safety hazard. The successful

accordance with the consequences which the accident may result in.

removal of the risk was recognized by the EHS committee.

• Avoid or reduce the risk by taking engineering and/ or
management measures.
• Major Risk

• Intolerable• Take temporary management and control measures to ensure thesafe operation before taking engineering or management measures tocontrol the risk.

Hazardous Work Management

EHS Management of Change (MOC)EHS Management of Change (MOC) is an essential building block to maintain operation integrity and prevent serious EHS accident. Trina
Solar has set up a MOC procedure. An evaluation should be conducted if the changes have a strong relation with those that may be
harmful to people, the environment, safety or quality of products. Examples of the change required MOC evaluation include:

To ensure the safety of contractor and employees, we set up a permit-to-work system, which requires employees and contractors to get
an Area Work Permit prior to the commencement of any work within Trina Solar premises. We strictly control those dangerous works that•

Introduction of new technology and equipment;•

Selection and introduction of new process (chemical, physical, methods, etc.)•

Change of operation procedure;•

Introduction of new supplier or new materials;

may cause major injury or losses, such as working at height, hot work and working in confined space. The project responsible person
needs to complete the Dangerous Work Permits which should then be approved by relevant parties prior to commencement of the work.

Safety Inspections
Trina Solar has established the EHS Inspection and Management Procedure to assess the strengths and weaknesses in the plant's
safety system by the identification of unsafe acts and unsafe conditions. The procedure gives the notification of line management for
appropriate, effective and prompt corrective actions. The establishment and implementation of the procedure minimize employee andcompany loss by early detection of potential safety and health hazards.

Near Miss Reporting89%
Trina Solar adheres to an open and effective reporting
mechanism to encourage correct behavior, practices and processes in order toavoid the occurrence of accidents and personal injury. Trina Solar has launched a plant-wide campaign, Near Miss reporting program,

Emergency Management Plan
In case of an emergency, our response makes the difference between a positive and a negative outcome. We believe that effective
contingency plans and periodic drills will play a crucial role in stabilizing the situation upon emergency. Therefore, we have developedsince 2010 to encourage all employees to report near misses. To ensure the successful implementation of the program, employee can

a comprehensive emergency response plan, including fires, chemical spills and burns, power outages accidents, etc., to ensure that wereport a near miss through different channels, such as EHS reporting card, near miss reporting database in e -flow system, email andare able to promptly and effectively respond to a variety of safety and environmental incidents; periodic emergency drills are arranged intelephone notification.

each responsibility area to ensure our emergency response plan can work well while improving our emergency response capabilities.

We received a great response from our employees. There were total 724 near misses reported in 2013, and 90% of them were resolved,
not only greatly reducing the company's safety risks, but also creating the culture atmosphere of full participation in safety management.

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Care for Employees

EHS Promotion Month
Case: Evacuation Drill during "119 Fire Prevention Day"

Trina Solar has organized EHS Promotion Month for five consecutive years with a different theme each year:•

Theme of 2009: Respecting Life, Developing Safely•

Theme of 2010: Safe Development; Prevention First.

•

Theme of 2011: Safety Responsibility; Focus on Implementation.

•

Theme of 2012: Scientific Development; Safe Development.

•

Theme of 2013: Enhancing Safe Infrastructure ; Promoting Safe Development

In order to test the emergency preparedness, the northeast factory of
Trina Solar organized a factory-wide fire emergency and evacuation
drill on "119 Fire Prevention Day" on November 9, 2013. In the drill,
an electrical short-circuit failure in the cell workshop machine wassimulated. The electrical short-circuit ignited combustible chemicals
and a fire incident was caused. A factory-wide emergency evacuation
was initiated. ERT (Emergency Response Team) was deployed torescue the casualties and carry out fire-fighting. A total of 800
employees and contractors participated in the drill.

Employees’ Traffic Safety

Activities in EHS Promotion Month of 2013

Trina Solar adheres to the "people-oriented, concerned about life" as the highest standard of all activities. We not only focus on

On May 30, 2013, EHS promotion month was kicked off in headquarters of Trina Solar in Changzhou. Various promotion

employees’ work safety, but also get concerned about their traffic safety on commute. To prevent minimize commuting accidents andactivities were organized, including signing ceremony of safety responsibilities, forklift skill competition, EHS quiz, ERT skill

injuries or losses, we conducted a series of traffic safety improvement projects. In 2013, there were no traffic deaths and serious injuries:

competition, first-aid workshop and traffic safety training etc. Those activities aimed to promote the safety awareness andencourage employees' involvement in our safety programs. The EHS promotion month laid the foundation for safe operation•

Establish traffic-safety related evaluation mechanism.

•

Build vehicle decelerations belt on the roads near entrances and exits of the plants.

and healthy development for the company.

Activity 1: Opening Ceremony of EHS Promotion Month in 2013
EHS D epar tment organized an opening ceremony for the EHS
promotion month. About 200 employees attended the opening
ceremony. Zhenxiang Zhao, Director of Facility and EHS, delivered a•

Inspect motorcycles and electric car licenses regularly.

speech during the ceremony. On behalf of EHS committee, Mr. Zhao
reviewed the overall EHS performance in 2012 and EHS management
plan in 2013. Zhiguo Zhu, President of MBU, delivered a keynote speech•

Providing reflective strips for motorcycles, electric bicycles and distributing reflective vests to employees and push bikes toincrease visibility at night.

during the ceremony and signed the agreement of safe production
responsibility with all department heads. Besides, the award of Excellent
Safety Performance was awarded to 5 groups and 12 individuals for••

Inviting traffic patrolmen to explain about the traffic situation, common traffic violations, correct driving habits, how to
inform police of accidents and how to handle a hit-and-run accident aided by traffic accident videos.

Distribution of road safety pamphlet to our employees and posting promotional poster on promotion windows.

Safety Culture Development

their outstanding safety performance in 2012.

Activity 2
ERT Competition

Activity 3First-aid Lecture

ERT competition tested
and improved ERT's
response skills andcapabilities in case of an
emergency.

The first-aid lecture provided
the essential information for
ERT members on how to deal
with emergencies and how
to access and treat a casualty

Caring for employee’s life and work safety is one of the key performance indicators of corporate culture progress. We strictly follow

Activity 4
Forklift Skill Competition
The forklift skill
competition greatly
helped the forklift
drivers improve their safe
driving skills and safety
awareness.

safety policies, hold EHS committee meeting monthly, organize safety promotion month annually, launch various training activities tostrengthen employee’s recognition about safety culture, guide employees in safe behavior and promote the corporate culture of “safety
first”.

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Care for Employees

EHS Committee Meeting
With implementation of EHS principles and policies as its purpose, EHS committee of Trina Solar supervises the implementation ofCase 2: Opening Doors for Employee’s Children

various safety measures, comprehensively promotes environment, health and safety work, strives to effectively manage and control
all EHS activities. EHS committee, held regularly at the beginning of every month, established an EHS information communication
mechanism widely participated by several departments such as production, technology, facility, HR, administration etc. All EHS issues are

Every year, Trina Solar in Europe region announces an official Future

discussed and communicated during the committee meeting, and examples of the meeting agenda include,

Opportunity Day when parents can bring their children to work.
The children’s day is an opportunity for businesses and institutions•

Potential risks and improvement measures;to open their doors and offer gender sensitive youth development
and education. Trina Solar Switzerland organized a program for their•

Proper working process and safe working method;•

EHS accident analysis and EHS performance review;

employee’s children ages 12+, including a joint breakfast, office tour
and a description of each department’s daily work by a department
representative. After doing a quiz on solar energy, the children went
for lunch with their parent and concluded the day discussing solar
energy and receiving an individual certificate for participation for•getting to know their parents work place and learning about solar

EHS suggestions and proposals for staff safety;

energy.
•EHS work objectives, directions and focuses in the next stage.

Festival Activities

Work-life Balance
In addition to powerful innovation ability and advanced technologies, harmonious corporate culture also plays an important role in

In order to popularize the national culture and enrich employees’ amateur cultural life, we prepare various activities reflecting festival
features on every traditional festival:•

On Spring Festival, we sent consolation letters with sincere appreciation and New Year greeting to family members of
every front-line employees.

healthy and rapid development of an enterprise. We believe that a good enterprise culture atmosphere can help employees enjoy theirwork and life in a better way; colorful cultural activities can effectively relieve employees’ psychological pressure, release unhealthymood and form a good atmosphere of mutual assistance, love and trust.

•

festival.

Leisure Sports Activities
Trina Solar has established a series of sports clubs including football, basketball, badminton, table tennis, swimming, fishing etc. EachOn Lantern Festival, we hung up red lantern riddles and colorful balloons to enable our employees enjoy a joyful•

club regularly develops training activities every month and organizes various kinds of internal league or friendly match with other

On Dragon Boat Festival, we organized a party “China Dream, Dream of Trina Solar, My Dream” , distributed Zongzi andorganized Zongzi making contest to enable our employees to feel the warmth of the big family.

companies every year. For example, we have continuously held basketball league for 5 years and badminton match for 4 years. Every
moment of joy and every drop of sweet carried the team spirit of striving upwards.

•

Parents-children Activities
The adolescence period is the most critic and distinctive period in life. Considering that our employees devote most of their energy
to working, continuous self-learning and improving, and neglect growth of their children, in order to facilitate relationships between
parents and children, Trina Solar persists in organizing all kinds of parents-children activities conducive to children's physical and mental

On Mid-autumn Festival, we organized volunteers to distribute moon cakes and send festival greetings to staff stillworking on their posts on this special day.

•On Double Ninth Festival, we sent blankets and consolation letters to the parents of staff who have more than 10 yearsof seniority to express our respects to the parents of our employees.

health. These activities are enjoyable and educational, not only promote emotional exchange between parents and children, makechildren experience enjoyment of creation and success, but also train their character of participation and exploration as well as enable
them to make more good friends.
Case 1: Children’s Painting Competition

Case: Series of celebration activities “Be grateful for mother’s love and bless mother” for Mother’s Day

On Mother's Day in May, Trina Solar held a series of celebration activities “Be grateful for
mother’s love and bless mother” for Mother’s Day. Through a variety of activity forms ofIn order to enrich employee’ children’s culture life in the summer vacation and encourage them to discover, feel andthanksgiving message, “Say your love out loud” etc., our staff expressed gratitude andcreate beauty in nature, Trina Solar held a Children’s Painting Competition “The Summer in My Eyes” in July 2013. We

blessing to their mother. Besides, we sent one flower and one card to every employee

not only awarded prizes to the award-winning children, but also published their works on our internal magazine so

who was pregnant to make their first mother's day warm, sweet and memorable.

as to remind our employees that we need to do more to protect our environment so that our children can feel the
beauty of the nature.

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Contribution toSociety
As a responsible corporate citizen, we always adhere to theconcept of returning to society, actively taking advantage
of our own technical and resources and bringing positivechange to the local economy, environment and society. We
hope to promote the harmonious development of society andthe progress of civilization through investment in education,
public charities, and employee volunteer services.

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Contribution to Society

Education Support
Supporting education is our long-term corporate responsibility and mission. We invested to construct the Trina Solar International
School in order to promote the cultivation of innovative talents and provide long-increase power for the sustainable development of theworld economy and the community through sustained investment in education. We also donated our solar modules to the Elementary& Senior High School in Brewerville, Liberia, Msafiri Primary School in Tanzania, Technical University of Vienna, Austria and Academia
de Profesionales Solares de las Américas (APSA) .We improve the educational environment continuously dependent on our talent,
technology and capital to bring more young people access to education and help them succeed in the future.

Trina Solar International School
Trina Solar International School has adopted a high-quality international curriculum and hires experienced native teachers. The
school has a 15 year international curriculum from kindergarten to the end of secondary school education. The school provides
good educational facilities to children and teenagers with different backgrounds and promotes their optimal development.

Module Donation to School Project in Liberia

Solar Energy International Academia

The Elementary & Senior High School in Brewerville, Liberia

Solar Energy International (SEI ) created the Academia

was founded in 1998, with a total number of 600 students inde Profesionales Solares de las Américas (APSA) withschool at present. The school has no access to electricity since its

a goal of developing a workforce to increase universal

foundation.

a cce s s to e l e c t r i c i t y t h ro u g h re n e w a b l e e n e rg y

To provide clean electricity to the school, Trina Solar has provided
solar panels to support a joint aid project in Liberia carried out by
the charities Engineers Without Borders and Project for Liberia.
The panels, with a total generation capacity of 8.3kW, have been
installed at the Elementary & Senior High School in Brewerville,
providing the school with electricity for the first time. With thepanel donation from Trina Solar, the Partner MaxSolar GmbHin Germany planned, delivered and installed the PV system in

Case: The Summer Fair

Case: Water Conservation Awareness Promotion

Considering that most of our employees spend

Project in Veolia

much more time on their work than staying with

H o w m a ny s t e p s s h o u l d b e t a k e n b e fo r e w a t e r

their kids, Changzhou Trina Solar International

being sent into each family? In March, 2013, Trina

School invited our employees and their kids toSolar International School organized the students

join the “Summer Fair” on June 1st, 2013 to haveto Changzhou Veolia Environmental Science andhosts education classes for adults. School children now havea healthy, happy and satisfying Children’s Day.

Technology Company to search for the answer.

the benefit of learning how to use computers and the Internet

On Children’s Day, the outdoor playground of

Employees in Veolia introduced the drinking waterwith this electricity. Apart from the school, an internet café with

Trina Solar International School was divided

source of Changzhou and the water treatment systema copy shop and electricity provisions for local residents will

into different areas, in which there were moreof Veolia for the students, and invited them to make anthan ten distinctive, beloved games for thegenerate revenues to finance the maintenance of the system.

experiment of water filtration, dissolve and sediment.

children. The games include creative cookies

When seeing the muddy water got clean after a series“Thanks to PV technology, the Elementary & Senior High School

decoration and face painting, challenging ballof complicated processes, the students were marveledin Brewerville now has electricity for the first time – that is agames and fun sports, interesting bouncy castle

at the advanced technology and deeply realized thedecisive step towards a better future.” said Ben Hill, President

and delicacy barbeque. Every child was gearing

value of each drop of water. After returning to school,

up to have a try, and all were fully enjoyingof Trina Solar Europe. “A permanent electricity supply is athe students put on many posters to promote thethe festival joy and happiness in a relaxing

awareness of water conservation.

atmosphere!

Brewerville, Liberia. The installation was completed on April 7,2013 and generates clean electricity since then. Thanks to the35kW capacity of the battery storage used, the facilities cancontinue to be used in the evenings as well when the school

fundamental requirement for everyone. We want to contribute toimproving quality of life for the people of Africa and the wholeworld. ”

development in Central America and Mexico. APSA
set out to train 50 people, representing countries,
communities, and organizations throughout Central
America and Mexico to design, install and maintainsolar PV systems, and to successfully launch andadminister businesses in this critically impor tantindustr y. The APSA program featured six trainees
from El Salvador, ten from Costa Rica, eight from
Mexico, six from Honduras, three from Panama, eightfrom Nicaragua, and nine trainees from Guatemala.
The trainee body consisted of educators, engineers,
telecommunications specialists, representatives fromNGO’s, college students, solar PV professionals, utility
representatives, agriculturalists, and other renewableenergy professionals focused on biogas, micro-hydro,
and small wind power.
Trina Solar is enthusiastic about these significant
training programs. To help trainees get familiar withsolar power generation system, Trina Solar donateda Solar PV system to the Earth University in Liberia.
APSA organized six-days of hands-on PV installationsin the laboratory of Earth University. Now 50 people
from across Central America and Mexico have furthered
their knowledge and practice of solar PV design &Installation.

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Contribution to Society

Zhenxing International Exchange Scholarship
Gao Jifan, CEO and Chairman of Trina Solar, graduated from

Module Donation to the University of Vienna,
Austria

the Department of Chemistry of Nanjing University. In 2010,

Trina Solar Germany has donated a mounting systemwith a high social responsibility and deep gratitude to his“Trinamount III” with 8 modules and 6 additionalalma mater in heart, Mr. Gao donated RMB 1 million to set
up the Zhenxing International Exchange Scholarship forthe excellent poor students in Nanjing University. Mr. Gao
named the scholarship with his mother’s name to express
his appreciation to his mother, as well as his alma mater.
On June 21, 2013, M r. Gao attended the scholarshipaward ceremony. Each year, there will be 5 undergraduate

the development and progress of society. Enthusiastic about public welfare, Trina Solar takes practical action in public welfare anddisaster relief, and improves health and traffic conditions, making a positive contribution to creating a better world.

The installation itself will be used for around 90
students a year for practical exercises and tests. Oneof the students decides to choose “Planning a PVlaboratory for the Technical University Vienna” as his

scholarship will be set up for 4 years to finance excellent

educational program that is training young people

poor students to go to the world's elite for learning

to learn about renewable energy from a technicalexchange, broaden their horizons and cultivate moreand economic perspective to become the future
representatives of the industry.

Module Donation to School in Tanzania

MLK school

The Msafir i Pr imar y B oarding S chool in Tanzania is a

Trina Solar and NRG Energy Inc. donated a solar

registered NGO that was initiated by locals and realized

photovoltaic installation to the Dr. Martin Lutherwith the help of European sponsors. The construction of theKing, Jr. Charter School for Science & Technology

school in 2004 was mainly financed through donations fromi n N e w O r l e a n s. T h e s y s t e m c o n s i s t s o f 3 9 7

the town of Mühledorf in Germany. SunPlan GmbH, who ispanels, which can provide up to one-third of thebased in the same area in Germany (Mühleberg), has taken

school’s peak electricity demand with abundant,

the initiative to provide the school with clean solar energy

free, renewable solar energy. In addition to thetogether with MaxSolar .

solar installation, NRG has made additional

took part in the project to donate solar modules worth 9.5
kW to the school. Trina Solar is very proud to be part of thisproject and to be able to support a school that is outstanding
for its performance and English teaching. This gives thescholars an advantage when moving on to further educationand eventually to a successful entry into the labor market.

The prosperity and stability of society is the foundation of a successful enterprise and the success of an enterprise also promotes

Energy of the Technical University Vienna, Austria.

master thesis. Trina Solar is happy to support thisIn October, 2013, together with SunPlan, Trina Solar actively

Donations

Comax-Modules to the Department of Renewablestudents being awarded with RMB 50,000 per person. Theinternational talents.

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Contribution to Society

Picture: Official handover of the Plus Energy Building Prize to the Cantonof Bern.
Left to right: Professor Peter Schürch (Architect for Sustainable andEnergy Efficient Buildings), Jodie Roussell (Director of Public Affairs Trina
Solar Europe), Barbara Egger-Jenzer (Cantonal Director for Construction,
Transport and Energy), Nadine Masshardt (Swiss Parliamentarian)

Incentivizing Solar Energy Utilization in Switzerland

Lighting Motorcycles

Trina Solar is a proud partner and sponsor of the annual Swiss

In July, 2103, the Intersoalr North American trade fair

Solar Prize, organized by the Swiss Solar Agency. The Agency

was held in San Francisco, America. While displaying

was founded in 1990 with the aim of having at least one solar

its new product—Trinasmart, Trina Solar also exhibited

installation of 1 kW up to 10 MW per village in Switzerland. Witha sponsored electric motorcycle. The motorcycle isEuropean headquarter in Switzerland, Trina Solar is involved

equipped with Trina’s solar panel, which is connectedin the support of the Prize and serves on the Jury evaluating

to an SMA inverter that charges battery pack to provide

the applications of the best solar installations of the year. The

the vehicle with clean power. On 30 th June, lightning

Plus Energy Building Prize for Cantons that Trina Solar sponsors

Motorcycle’s Lightning SuperBike won the Pikes Peakis the partner prize of the Lord Norman Foster Prize for PlusInternational Hill Climb in Colorado Springs. For the first

Energy Buildings. Switzerland is well known as one of the mosttime at a major motorsports event, an electric motorcycle

innovative building technology markets in the world and thisbeat gas-powered competitors, which educates theprize aims at increasing the inter-cantonal competition for

public on the opportunities for clean energy to power

market leading policies driving investment in solar.

our lives and transportation.

improvements including installing new shaded
bays, colored panels and prisms that will cast aspectrum of color onto the playground to createteaching oppor tunities about refracted light,
electric fans to cool the students on hot days,

Fund-raising Activity for Ya'an, Sichuan
On 20 th April , an earthquake measuring magnitude 7 hit Lushan County, Ya’an, Sichuan, which led to hundreds of death andmillions of injuries. Right after the disaster happened, Trina Solar organized a fund-raising activity within the whole company. The

lighting upgrades to the school’s playground, and aemployees actively responded to the activity and donated RMB100,000 totally to Ya’an. Besides, to help Ya’an’s reconstruction,

new irrigation system for students.

Trina Solar has also launched a Lushan earthquake relief operation - rural drinking water project, and donated a water supply
system for a village, to solve the problem of drinking water safety that struck rural residents.

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Contribution to Society

Volunteer Activities
Trina Solar emphasizes the harmonious development with the community and encourages employees to organize volunteer
activities for people in need in each area we operate. In China, this can involve events for poor children and actively participate incommunity services and environmental protection projects to support their sense of community, school visits, food waste-reduction
education and the participation in Earth Day. In other countries we also encourage and support volunteer activities.

Tree Planting Activity
Tree -planting Day, on March 12, 2013, is a special day foreveryone to join in environment protection. Together with
Changzhou Co-link Environment Protection Association andChangzhou Xinqiao Primary School, Trina Solar held the tree-

On June 30, 2013, the volunteers from various departments

planting activity, with the theme of “Smart Energy, Green Trina”.

of Trina Solar visited 40 sponsored students in Liyang Xuebu

More than 100 trees were planted during the activity period,

Primary School and Hengjian Primary School. Together withincluding Cinnamomum camphora, magnolia gradfloria, etc.

love and donation, our employees carried out face-to-face

Both parties hope to continue the activity to call on more people

communication with the students, and encouraged them toto concern about the ecology and leave a clean planet for the

be self-confidence, self-reliance and self-improvement and to

next generation.

be happy every day.

Light the World of Autistic Children with Love

Volunteer Service Team

There is a special group of children: they have bright eyes

In 2013, we established a Trina Solar Volunteer Service Team to

but never look at others; they have normal hearing but neverencourage our employees to serve the community. Trina Solar

respond to others; they can talk but never communicate withcommits to the mission of promoting healthy lifestyle andothers; they are thought mental handicapped but have great

establishing a sustainable community.

talent in some subjects. They are called autistic children. In
western countries, they have another name “children of stars”,
meaning shining like stars in another lonely world.

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Care for Stay-at-home Children

On the morning of December 1, our Volunteer Service Teamlaunched an Environmental Walking Excursion themed with
“Environmental and happy Walking”. Volunteers wore green

On the morning of March 13, leaded by the teachers, Grade 6 &shirt and red hat, walking from Changzhou Cultural Palace to

7 of Trina Solar International School visited Changzhou Tianai

Qingfeng Park, with the total distance of 7.5KM. The activity

Recovery Center. Every student prepared a gift for the children

aims to promote the low-carbon lifestyle and encourage thein Tianai and tried to help them come out from their own world

public to travel by more environmental ways, so as to reduceby talking and playing games with them.

carbon emission and relieve the traffic congestion.

Brewerville, Liberia

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GRI Content Index

GRI Content Index

To enable stakeholders to fully understand Trina Solar’s social responsibility, Trina Solar’s Social Responsibility Report 2013 disclose
relevant information and a number of additional indicators based on the Sustainability Report Guide (G3.1) of the Global Reporting

Indicator
NumberInitiative.

4.Governance, Commitments, and Engagement

Indicator
NumberDescription

StatusReport Section(s)Page(s)Explanatory
Notes

1.1-1.2• Message From
the Leadership• Challenges andOpportunities

11

2.Organization Profile

2.1-2.9

2.10

Name of the organization; Primary brands, products, and/or
services;Operational structure of the organization; Location of
headquarters;Nature of ownership; Markets served; Scale ofreporting organization;Significant changes during the reporting
period.

• Company ProfileAwards received in the reporting period.

• Awards

Reporting period; Date of most recent previous report; Reporting
cycle; Contact point for questions regarding the report or its
contents.

• About the Report

3.5

Process for defining report content.

• About the Report

3.6-3.8

Boundary of the report; Limitations on scope and/or reportboundary; Basis for reporting on joint ventures, subsidiaries, etc.

• About the Report

4.8

Message from the leadership
Corporate Culture
Corporate governance
Guidelines and Policies

04
05
07

4.9

Procedures of the highest governance body for overseeing theorganization’s identification and management of EE&S performance.

• Corporate governance• Challenges and Opportunities

05
11

4.10

Processes for evaluating the highest governance body’s own
performance, particularly with respect to EE&S performance.

• Corporate governance

05

4.11

Explanation of whether and how the precautionary approach or
principle is addressed by the organization.

• Corporate governance

05

4.12

Externally developed EE&S charters, principles subscribed to• Guidelines and Policies• Green Sustainable
Development• Solutions to Climate Change

07
17
19

4.13

Memberships in associations and/or advocacy organizations.

4.14-4.17

List of stakeholder groups engaged by the organization; Basisfor identification and selection of stakeholders; Approaches tostakeholder engagement; Key topics and concerns that have beenraised through stakeholder engagement and how the organization
has responded to those key topics and concerns, including throughits reporting.

• Communication with
Stakeholders

0914

3.10-3.11

Explanation of the effect of any restatements of information
provided in earlier reports; Significant changes from previous
reporting periods.

• About the Report

Table identifying the location of standard disclosures in the report.

• GRI Index

4.5

4.6

4.7

• Key Performance

13

EC2

Financial implications and other risks and opportunities for theorganization’sactivities due to climate change. (Core)• Solutions to Climate Change

19

EC3

Coverage of the organization’s defined benefit plan obligations.
(Core)

EC4

Significant financial assistance received from government. (Core)

EC5

Range of ratios of standard entry level wage compared to local
minimum wage at significant locations of operation. (Additional)• Key Performance

13

EC6

Policy, practices, and proportion of spending on locally based
suppliersat significant locations of operation. (Core）• Supplier Management

31

EC7

Procedures for local hiring and proportion of senior management
hired from the local community at significant locations of operation.
(Core)• Protection of Employees'
Rights• Recogonition of Employees'
Contribution

37
38

EC8

Development and impact of infrastructure investments and services
provided primarily for public benefit through commercial, in-kind, or
pro bono engagement. (Core)• Education Support• Donations• Volunteer Activites

51
54
55

EC9

Understanding and describing significant indirect economic impacts,
including the extent of impacts. (Additional)• Challenges and Opportunities

11

Policy and current practice with regard to seeking external
assurance for the report.

Governance structure of the organization, including committees
under the highest governance body; Indication of whether thechair of thehighest governance body is also an executive officer;
Number of membersof the highest governance body that are
independent and/or non-executive members.

• Corporate Governance05

Linkage between compensation for members of the highest
governance body, senior managers, and executives, and theorganization’s performance.
Processes in place for the highest governance body to ensure thatconflicts of interest are avoided.
Process for determining the qualifications and expertise of
the members of the highest governance body on economic,
environmental, and social (EE&S) topics.

Covered in the Report

57

Direct economic value generated and distributed. (Core)

57

4.Governance, Commitments, and Engagement

4.1-4.4

EC1• About the Report

Data measurement techniques and the bases of calculations.

3.13

Partially Covered in the ReportPage(s)Explanatory
Notes

5.Economic Performance Indicators

3.9

3.12

Report Section(s)

•
•
•
•

03

3.Report Parameters3.1-3.4

StatusInternally developed statements of mission or values, codes ofconduct, and principles.

1.Strategy and Analysis

Statement from the most senior decision maker; Description of key
impacts, risks, and opportunities.

Description

6.Environmental Performance Indicators• Corporate Governance• Corporate Governance

Not Covered in the Report

05

05

EN1

Materials used by weight or volume. (Core)

EN2

Percentage of materials used that are recycled input materials. (Core)• Environment-Friendly
Operation

24

EN3

Direct energy consumption by primary energy source. (Core)• Solutions to Climate Change

19

EN4

Indirect energy consumption by primary source. (Core)• Solutions to Climate Change

19

Covered in the Report

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GRI Content Index

Indicator
NumberDescription

StatusReport Section(s)Page(s)Explanatory
Notes

6.Environmental Performance Indicators

EN5-EN7

EN8-EN10

EN11-EN12• Solutions to Climate Change

Total water withdrawal by source. (Core); Water sources
significantly affected by withdrawal of water. (Additional);
Percentage and total volume of water recycled and reused.
(Additional)• Environment-Friendly
Operation

Location and size of land owned, leased, managed in, or
adjacent to protected areas and areas of high biodiversity value.
(Core);Description of significant impacts on activities, products,
and services on biodiversity in protected areas and areas of highbiodiversity value. (Core)• Biological Diversity
Management

EN14

Strategies, current actions, and future plans for managing impacts
on biodiversity. (Additional)

EN15

Number of IUCN Red List species and national conservation list
species with habitats in areas affected by operations, by level ofextinction risk.(Additional)

Report Section(s)Page(s)• Biological Diversity
Management2828• Solutions to Climate Change

19

EN19

Emissions of ozone-depleting substances by weight. (Core)• Solutions to Climate Change

19

EN20

NOx, SOx, and other significant air emissions by type and weight.
(Core)
13
24
24

EN21

Total water discharge by quality and destination. (Core)• Key Performance• Environment-Friendly
Operation

EN22

Total weight of waste by type and disposal method. (Core)• Environment-Friendly
Operation

EN23

Total number and volume of significant spills. (Core)

EN24

Weight of transported, imported, exported, or treated waste
deemed hazardous under the terms of the Basel Convention
Annex I, II, III,and VIII, and percentage of transported waste shippedinternationally.(Additional)

No suchincident

Explanatory
Notes

Identity, size, protected status, and biodiversity value of water
bodies and related habitats significantly affected by the reportingorganization's discharges of water and runoff. (Additional)）

EN26

Initiatives to mitigate environmental impacts of products andservices, and extent of impact mitigation. (Core)• Green Sustainable
Development• Solutions to Climate Change• Environment-Friendly
Operation

17
19
24

EN27

Percentage of products sold and their packaging materials that arereclaimed by category. (Core)• Guidelines and Policies• Environment-Friendly
Operation

07
24

Total environmental protection expenditures and investments by
type.(Additional)
Partially Covered in the Report• Key Performance

13

LA3

Benefits provided to full-time employees that are not provided totemporary or part-time employees, by major perations. (Additional)• Protection of Employees'
Rights37

LA4

Percentage of employees covered by collective bargaining agreements.
(Core)

LA5

Minimum notice period(s) regarding significant operational changes,
including whether it is specified in collective agreements. (Core)

LA6

Percentage of total workforce represented in formal joint management
worker health and safety committees that help monitor and advise on
occupational health and safety programs. (Additional)• Key Performance• Employees' Safety

13
42

LA7

Rates of injury, occupational diseases, lost days, and absenteeism, andnumber of work-related fatalities by region. (Core)• Key Performance• Employees' Safety

13
42

LA8

• Creation of Cultural
Environment• Care for Employees'
Physical and Mental Health• Employees' Safety

39

Education, training, counseling, prevention, and risk control programsin place to assist workforce members, their families, or community
members regarding serious diseases. (Core)

LA9

Health and safety topics covered in formal agreements with tradeunions. (Additional)• Employees' Safety• Work-life Balance42
47

LA10-LA11

Average hours of training per year per employee, by employee category.
(Core); Programs for skills management and lifelong learning that
support continued employability. (Additional)• Creation of Cultural
Environment

39

LA12

Percentage of employees receiving regular performance and careerdevelopment reviews. (Additional)• Protection of Employees'
Rights• Recogonition of Employees'
Contribution

37
38

LA13

Composition of governance bodies and breakdown of employees by
category according to gender, age group, minority group membership,
and other indicators of diversity. (Core)• Key Performance

13

LA14

Ratio of basic salary of men to women by employee category. (Core)• Protection of Employees'
Rights37

LA15

Return to work and retention rates after parental leave. (Core)

40
42

8.Social Performance Indicators: Human Rights

EN25

Monetar y value of significant fines and total number of
nonmonetary sanctions for non-compliance with environmental
laws and regulations. (Core)
Significant environmental impacts of transporting products andother goods and materials used for the organization’s operations,and transporting members of the workforce. (Additional)

Total workforce by employment type, employment contract,
and region. (Core); Total number and rate of employee turnover. (Core)24

EN16-EN18

Covered in the Report

Status

LA1-LA2
19

Total direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions by weight.
(Core); Other relevant indirect greenhouse gas emissions byweight (Core);Initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, andreductions achieved.(Additional)

EN30

59

Energy saved due to conservation and efficiency improvements.
(Additional); Initiatives to provide energy-efficient or renewableenergy-based products and services. (Additional); Initiatives toreduce indirect energy consumption and reductions achieved.
(Additional)

Habitats protected or restored. (Additional)

EN29

Description

7.Social Performance Indicators: Labor Practices

EN13

EN28

Indicator
NumberNo such finesandsanctions• Solutions to Climate Change

19• Key Performance13

Not Covered in the Report

HR1

Percentage and total number of significant investment agreements that
include human rights clauses or that have undergone human rights
screening. (Core)

HR2

Percentage of significant suppliers and contractors that have undergone
screening on human rights and actions taken. (Core)• SupplierManagement

31

HR3

Total hours of employee training on policies and procedures concerning
aspects of human rights that are relevant to operations, including thepercentage of employees trained. (Additional)• Creation of Cultural
Environment

39

HR4

Total number of incidents of discrimination and actions taken. (Core)• Protection of Employees'
Rights37

HR5-HR7

Operations identified in which the right to exercise freedom of
association and collective bargaining may be at significant risk, andactions taken to support these rights. (Core); Operations identified
as having significant risk for incidents of child labor, or forced orcompulsory labor, and measures taken to contribute to the eliminationof child labor. (Core)• SupplierManagement• Protection of Employees'
RightsCovered in the Report

Partially Covered in the Report2013 Corporate Social Responsibility Report

31
37

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Indicator
NumberDescription

StatusReport Section(s)Page(s)Explanatory
Notes

8.Social Performance Indicators: Human Rights
HR8

Percentage of security personnel trained in the organization's policies
or procedures concerning aspects of human rights that are relevant tooperations. (Additional)

HR9

Total number of incidents of violations involving rights of indigenous people
and actions taken. (Additional)

HR10-HR11

Percentage and total number of operations that have been
subject to human rights assessments and number of grievances resolved.
(Core)

9.Social Performance Indicators: Society

S01

Nature, scope, and effectiveness of any programs and practices that assess
and manage the impacts of operations on communities, including entering,
operating, and exiting. (Core)• Education Support• Volunteer Activites

51
55

S02-S03

Percentage and total number of business units analyzed forrisks related to corruption. (Core); Percentage of employees trained inorganization’s anti-corruption policies and procedures. (Core)• Corporate Governance

05

S04

Actions taken in response to incidents of corruption. (Core)• Corporate Governance05

S05-S06

Public policy positions and participation in public policy development andlobbying. (Core); Total value of financial and in-kind contributions to politicalparties, politicians, and related institutions by country. (Additional)• Challenges andOpportunities• Education Support• Donations

11
51
54

S07-S08

Total number of legal actions for anti-competitive behavior, antitrust,andmonopoly practices and their outcomes. (Additional); Monetary value ofsignificant fines and total number of non-monetary sanctions. (Core)

S09-S10

Operations with significant potential or actual impact on local communities
and prevention/mitigation activities. (Core)• Environment-Friendly
Operation• Volunteer Activites

24
55• Guidelines and Policies

07

10.Social Performance Indicators: Product Responsibility
PR1Life-cycle stages in which health and safety impacts of products and services
are assessed for improvement. (Core)

PR2

Total number of incidents of non-compliance with regulations and voluntary
codes concerning health and safety impacts of products and services during
their life cycle, by type of outcomes. (Additional)

PR3

Type of product and service information required by procedures,and
percentage of significant products and services subject to such information
requirements. (Core)

PR4

Total number of incidents of non-compliance with regulations and voluntary
codes concerning product and service information and labeling, by type ofoutcomes. (Additional)

PR5

Practices related to customer satisfaction, including results of surveys
measuring customer satisfaction. (Additional)

PR6

Programs for adherence to laws, standards, and voluntary codes related
to marketing communications, including advertising, promotion, andsponsorship. (Core)

PR7

Total number of incidents of non-compliance with regulations and voluntary
codes concerning marketing communications, including advertising,promotion, and sponsorship by type of outcomes. (Additional)

PR8

Total number of substantiated complaints regarding breaches of customer
privacy and losses of customer data. (Additional)

PR9

Monetary value of significant fines for non-compliance with laws andregulations concerning the provision and use of products and services.(Core).
Covered in the Report

61

Partially Covered in the Report

No suchincident• Guidelines and Policies

07

No suchincident• Communication with
Stakeholders

09

Luthern, Schweiz
No suchincident

No such fines

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