Page 49 - Tata Chemical Annual Report_2022-2023
P. 49

Integrated Annual Report 2022-23  01-83  84-192              193-365
               Integrated Report      Statutory Reports       Financial Statements
               Materiality Assessment




 Addressing the highly critical material issues  Addressing the moderately critical material issues


 Material matters   Areas focussed   Mitigating actions

 M1  Safe work environment, emergency preparedness,     Ÿ Targetted actions on zero harm
 Health & Safety  digitised reporting    Ÿ Safety assessments and audits  Corporate Governance  Community Support
   Ÿ Digitalisation and data analytics
              Corporate Governance practices at Tata Chemicals is   Tata Chemicals maintains positive community relations
              focussed on enhancing accountability, ethical behaviour   in areas where the Company’s operations have impact on
              and fairness to all stakeholders. Our governance   living conditions. We focus on empowering communities
 M2  Maintaining highest level of code of conduct and     Ÿ Strictly abiding by the Tata Code of   philosophy is strengthened through Tata Business   and improving socio-economic status by creating
 Business Ethics  ethics through training and policy frameworks  Conduct and having zero tolerance   Excellence Model, Tata Code of Conduct for Prevention   livelihood opportunities, promoting health, well-being,
 policy for any unethical practices
              of Insider Trading and Code of Corporate Disclosure   and education in a sustainable manner.
              Practices, Adoption of Anti-Bribery & Anti-Corruption
              and Anti-Money Laundering Policies and various other
 M3  Human capital development issues like training     Ÿ Conducting training programmes on   policies.
 Employee Development  of employees/delivery partners, inter-department   health, safety and wellness
 learning, job up-skilling    Ÿ Rewards and recognition schemes



 M4  Having a framework which ensures that the     Ÿ Regular assessment and audits to
 Regulatory Issues and   organisation meets all the regulatory compliances   ensure compliance
 Compliances
                 Moving towards Zero Waste to Landfill              Promoting Diversity and Inclusion
              Companies today are evaluated based on the         At Tata Chemicals, we promote diversity and inclusion
 M5  Process optimisation, cleaner fuel transition, energy     Ÿ Energy savings through process   environmental contamination and toxic or carcinogenic   through diverse hiring, flexible working and equal pay. We
 Energy Efficiency  efficiency  efficiency & redesign, conversion and   emissions arising from their operations, and the strength   undertake initiatives to improve people policies on the
 retrofitting of equipment   of their environmental management systems. At Tata   basis of their feedback. Regular surveys are conducted to
              Chemicals, we have taken various measures in our   understand their concerns and evaluate their satisfaction
   Ÿ Fuel shift from fossil fuel to                              levels. Our Board members also connect with employees
 renewable, for increasing the mix of   manufacturing processes to reduce waste material,   to understand their concerns.
 renewable energy  with the aim to ensure zero waste to landfill. In product
              logistics, we are using bulker instead of plastic packaging.
              In our cement plants, we are implementing co-processing
              of plastic waste in the cement kilns.
 M6  Reducing dependency on water, given that it is a     Ÿ Driving zero ground water usage
 Water Stewardship  limited resource and is essential to the production     Ÿ Optimising freshwater consumption
 of goods; recycling as much as possible and reusing
 water across operations     Ÿ Emphasis on enhancing recycling of
 water
   Ÿ Towards being net water positive
   Ÿ Community watershed management
 and rainwater harvesting  Chemical Safety
              Tata Chemicals has well established PSRM (Process Safety
              & Risk Management) practice to prevent risk associated
 M7  Minimising CO  footprint by achieving Net Zero     Ÿ Net Zero pathway planned   with accidental release of hazardous chemicals. We also
 2
 Reducing Carbon Footprint  & taking steps to remove additional CO  from the     Ÿ Capturing  CO  emissions to produce   support and train our distribution network in adopting
 2
 2
 atmosphere (e.g. carbon capture & storage, carbon   sodium bicarbonate  such practices. Systems have been put in place for
 credits, carbon sinks, route optimisation for delivery     Ÿ Enhancing green chemistry  tracking and assessing incidents relating to chemical
 partners to reduce carbon footprint); Also adopting   spills, transport accidents and quality of products and to
 strategies to mitigate the long-term impact on     Ÿ Fossil-to-renewable fuel shift  take corrective actions.
 climate change     Ÿ Carbon conscious growth strategy




 46                                                                                                         47
   44   45   46   47   48   49   50   51   52   53   54