The Chemical Manufacturers Committee, on which San Fu executives play a major role, is helping to coordinate some 31 manufacturers to establish a formal program to address issues related to environmental, health, and safety performance as well as compliance with local regulatory requirements. To that end, during 1995, Air Products Europe, in cooperation with key waste management contractors, established targets for waste elimination. Improving environmental performance is a priority throughout Air Products Europe. The Anchor, Clayton facility is the third Air Products site in the U.K. to receive an Integrated Pollution Control Authorization from Her Majesty's Inspectorate for Pollution. The team developed the site emissions inventory and environmental operations studies, wrote the permit application, and successfully negotiated with government regulators to permit greater production flexibility.
Sodium hypochlorite is the most common method for controlling the bio-fouling of cooling systems.
Although safer from both a personnel and environmental viewpoint than chlorine, sodium hypochlorite can react to form environmentally harmful chloramines. An Air Products Europe team developed an alternative approach using ultraviolet light to sterilize recirculating cooling water, an approach that is now planned for four other Air Products Europe sites. Operations staff who devised a system to eliminate oil mist at our facility in L'Isle D'Abeau in France. To Topics Safety and Occupational Health Air Products Europe has continued to implement the task-based risk assessment program mandated by EC directives. Beyond meeting regulatory requirements, the program has proven effective in identifying and minimizing workplace hazards.